Arrows Quotes - Page 18

• Always grow flowers, as that will make your way full of flowers. Never grow thorns, as that will make your way thorny. Never want to target someone on an arrow. You may become the target of that arrow. Never make a well in the way of someone. As you may pass by that way sometime.

  Rahman Baba

  Flower, Target, May

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• Who is it needs such flawless shafts as fate? What archer of his arrows is so choice, or hits the white so surely?

  James Russell Lowell

  Archer, Fate, White

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.400

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• It is from the remembrance of joys we have lost that the arrows of affliction are pointed.

  Henry Mackenzie

  Remembrance, Joy, Affliction

  Henry Mackenzie (1854). “The Miscellaneous Works of Henry Mackenzie ...”, p.357

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• The man who has been wounded by a chance arrow must not shoot at sight the first man he happens to meet.

  Edward Jenks

  Men, Sight, Firsts

  Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”

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• Mothers smell blood before the wound is given. We see the rent place on the child's arm before the arrow strikes.

  Kaye Gibbons

  Mother, Children, Blood

  Kaye Gibbons (1998). “On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• Under the Mountain dark and tall The King has come unto his hall! His foe is dead, the Worm of Dread, And ever so his foes shall fall. The sword is sharp, the spear is long, The arrow swift, the Gate is strong; The heart is bold that looks on gold; The dwarves no more shall suffer wrong. The dwarves of yore made mighty spells, While hammers fells like ringing bells In places deep, where dark things sleep, In hollow halls beneath the fells. -from The Hobbit (Dwarves Battle Song)

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Song, Strong, Kings

  J. R. R. Tolkien, “Over The Misty Mountains Cold”

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• Well. There was noting to be done for it. Things had happened as they did, time's arrow had yet to be reversed by humans, done was done. If a man spent his life looking over his shoulder at every possible branching of his path he could have taken, he would never accomplish anything. One must learn from history so as not to repeat it, but one must not waste one's energy or time worrying about what might have been. Sorry . . . but people die every day and the galaxy continues on quite well without them. Consider yourself lucky you are one of those as yet unselected by the Fates.

  Steve Perry

  Sorry, Taken, Learning

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• Pale in her fading bowers the Summer stands,
  Like a new Niobe with claspèd hands,
  Silent above the flowers, her children lost,
  Slain by the arrows of the early Frost.

  Richard Henry Stoddard

  Summer, Children, Flower

  "Ode". "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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• God takes the most eminent and choicest of His servants for the choicest and most eminent afflictions. They who have received most grace from God are able to bear most afflictions from God. Affliction does not hit the saint by chance, but by direction. God does not draw His bow at a venture. Every one of His arrows goes upon a special errand and touches no breast but his against whom it is sent. It is not only the grace, but the glory of a believer when we can stand and take affliction quietly

  Joseph Caryl

  Grace, Special, Bows

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