Towns Quote by Zora Neale Hurston

“Those venerable and feeble persons were always seen by the public in the act of bowing, and were popularly believed, when they had bowed…

— Charles Dickens

Part of him wanted to weep... but his purpose was rigid within him. He felt he could not bend to gentleness without breaking.

— Stephen R. Donaldson

And, hungry for the old, familiar ways, I turned aside and bowed my head and wept.

— Claude McKay

He smiled despite the grief he felt at the deaths of his men; he smiled because that was what he did. That was how…

— Brandon Sanderson

“She was thinking of him. Doubled up, small as a child, she gazed intently into the distance, at the man who was not there.…

— Henri Barbusse

“As he stood by the desolate fire, he felt that the only one thing which could assuage his grief would be thorough and complete…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and…

— Edwin Markham

“He had always prided himself on his ability to bargain, to bluff, to contain his ever-aching heart within the folds of his robes where…

— V.S. Carnes

“Perhaps he should have fallen to his knees and given thanks to the gods for their unlikely victory but the red harvest sword-hacked and…

— Joe Abercrombie

“All the morning since he got up he had been trying to fight through his duties—leaning against a hope—a hope that first had bowed,…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“Why was he kneeling there like a child saying his evening prayers? To be alone with his soul, to examine his conscience, to meet…

— James Joyce

“He stood and he only had one leg. The other was like a chunk of burnt pine-log he was carrying along as a penance…

— Ray Bradbury