Stooped Quotes
24 quotes by 20 authors
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Day, like a weary pilgrim, had reached the western gate of heaven, and Evening stooped down to unloose the latchets of his sandal shoon.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Such an assemblage of the spraddle-legged men of the middle class, whose hands were bent and shoulders stooped from delving and constructing, had never appeared…
— Stephen Crane
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Bystanders wandered in and out of the merchant's stall, passing the time, talking of dreams they might purchase. Workers and slaves stooped from labor asked…
— David Berlinski
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So proud she was to die It made us all ashamed That what we cherished, so unknown To her desire seemed. So satisfied to go…
— Emily Dickinson
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The bride, white of hair, is stooped over her cane Her faltering footsteps need guiding. While down the church aisle, with wan toothless smile, The…
— Richard Armour
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Then the Old Man of the Earth stooped over the floor of the cave, raised a huge stone from it, and left it leaning. It…
— George MacDonald
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You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell themselves at various…
— Epictetus
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Wimsey stooped for an empty sardine-tin which lay, horribly battered, at his feet, and slung it idly into the quag. It struck the surface with…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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when the sky is as grey as this - impeccably grey, a denial, really of the very concept of colour - and the stooped millions…
— Martin Amis
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And still Meriadoc the hobbit stood there blinking through his tears, and no one spoke to him, indeed none seemed to heed him. He brushed…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Roger stooped, picked up a stone, aimed and threw it at Henry-threw it to miss. The stone, that token of preposterous time, bounced five yards…
— William Golding
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You're crying?" he said. "No, I- " I tore my gaze away. "Just dust. From the path. Simon's that way." I tried to pass him,…
— Kelley Armstrong
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Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, I'll try violence.
— Charlotte Bronte
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He stood and inhaled, then walked a few more feet, stooped, and prodded a chunk of rabbit fur. “I’m definitely thinking something with more body…
— Kelley Armstrong
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You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture. That's what happened with your…
— Junot Diaz
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A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge…
— John Cheever
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I pity the fellow who has to create a dialect or paraphrase the dictionary to get laughs. I can't spell, but I have never stooped…
— Mark Twain
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The abrupt and sudden death of my wife has taken a severe emotional and psychic toll on me. On top of that, some people have…
— Shashi Tharoor
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I think that people have short memories, and I think that they believe that our forbearers in the past were these Founding Fathers who were…
— Joseph Cummins
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Our Saviour would love at no less rate than death; and from the supereminent height of glory, stooped and debased himself to the sufferance of…
— Robert Boyle
Who Wrote These Stooped Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 24 Stooped Quotes as follows: