Bowed

Famous quotes containing the word bowed:

“There are acacias, a graceful species amusingly devitalized by sentimentality, this kind drooping its leaves with the grace of a young widow bowed in controllable grief, this one obscuring them with a smooth silver as of placid tears. They please, like the minor French novelists of the eighteenth century, by suggesting a universe in which nothing cuts deep.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)

“And, hungry for the old, familiar ways,
I turned aside and bowed my head and wept.”
—Claude McKay (1889–1948)

“... having bowed to the inevitability of the dictum that we must eat to live, we should ignore it and live to eat ...”
—M.F.K. Fisher (1908–1992)