Famous quotes containing the words bowed and/or string:
“... 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)
“The Indian remarked as before, “Must have hard wood to cook moose-meat,” as if that were a maxim, and proceeded to get it. My companion cooked some in California fashion, winding a long string of the meat round a stick and slowly turning it in his hand before the fire. It was very good. But the Indian, not approving of the mode, or because he was not allowed to cook it his own way, would not taste it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)