Bending Quotes

133 quotes by 122 authors

He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others. — Douglas Horton
Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has… — Victor Hugo
The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless.… — Robert Green Ingersoll
The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down. — Helen Hunt Jackson
The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up. Following the bend in… — Eartha Kitt
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind. — Bruce Lee
The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat groove. It's in New Orleans music, it's in… — Wynton Marsalis
Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending… — William Whewell
You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
There is no thing that with a twist of the imagination cannot be something else. Porpoises risen in a green sea, the wind at nightfall… — William Carlos Williams
Then you'll feel your cheek scratched... A little kiss, like a crazy spider, Will run round your neck... And you'll say to me : "Find… — Arthur Rimbaud
Love is not a feeling in your chest; it is bending down to wash another's feet. — Andrew Peterson
Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly. — Alan Lightman
When You Are Old" WHEN you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly… — William Butler Yeats
It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn. — Emily Bronte
Mom told us we would have to go shoplifting. Isn't that a sin?" I asked Mom. Not exactly," Mom said. "God doesn't mind you bending… — Jeannette Walls
There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over. — Frank Zappa
The conflicting missions of the two armies seemed to have no fog, no gray, only black-and-white clarity. I had lived my life in terms of… — Randy Alcorn
After all, is it not the way we humans shape the universe, shape time itself? Do we not take the raw stuff of chaos and… — Tad Williams
Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws. — Marcel Duchamp

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