Bending Down Quotes

• The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Yellow, Apples, Tree

  Helen Hunt Jackson, “September”

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• Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Nature, Children, Together

  Mary Catherine Bateson (1985). “With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson”, Pocket Books

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• There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.

  Frank Zappa

  Atheist, Differences, Religion

  Song: Heavenly Bank Account

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• ...How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face... "When You Are Old And Gray

  William Butler Yeats

  Love, Men, Glowing

  The Countess Kathleen (1892) "When You Are Old"

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• When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beautiful, Dream, Retirement

  The Countess Kathleen (1892) "When You Are Old"

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• One man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
  And loved the sorrows of your changing face.

  William Butler Yeats

  Love, Men, Glowing

  'When You Are Old'

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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 read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face; And bending down beside the glowing bars, Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled And paced upon the mountains overhead And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.

  William Butler Yeats

  Dream, Stars, Book

  "When You Are Old" l. 1 (1893)

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• Love is not a feeling in your chest; it is bending down to wash another's feet.

  Andrew Peterson

  Love Is, Feet, Feelings

  Song: For the Love of God, Album: The Far Country

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• Once in a while I'll get moved to do some exercise. It's something I long for but the biggest problem is bending down and putting my tennis shoes on. Once I go out I'm OK.

  David Soul

  Fitness, Exercise, Shoes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Oh, my fellow men, do not defile your bodies with sinful foods. We have corn, we have apples bending down the branches with their weight, and grapes swelling on the vines. There are sweet-flavored herbs, and vegetables which can be cooked and softened over the fire, nor are you denied milk or thyme-scented honey. The earth affords a lavish supply of riches, of innocent foods, and offers you banquets that involve no bloodshed or slaughter; only beasts satisfy their hunger with flesh, and not even all of those, because horses, cattle, and sheep live on grass.

  Pythagoras

  Sweet, Horse, Men

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