Bending Quotes
133 quotes by 122 authors
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He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
— Douglas Horton
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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
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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
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The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down.
— Helen Hunt Jackson
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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
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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
— Bruce Lee
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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
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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
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You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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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
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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
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Love is not a feeling in your chest; it is bending down to wash another's feet.
— Andrew Peterson
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Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.
— Alan Lightman
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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
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It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.
— Emily Bronte
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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
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There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.
— Frank Zappa
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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
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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
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Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws.
— Marcel Duchamp
Who Wrote These Bending Quotes
122 authors contributed a total of 133 Bending Quotes, led by these top contributors: