Don't draw your bow until your arrow is fixed. — Russian Proverbs
So long as the new moon returns in heaven a bent, beautiful bow, so long will the fascination of archery keep hold in the hearts of men. — Maurice Thompson
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. — Kahlil Gibran
Children are arrows in a quiver, and they are to be trained as missionaries and shot at the Devil. — Jim Elliot
Take away leisure and Cupid's bow is broken — Ovid
One arrow alone can be easily broken but many arrows are indestructible. — Genghis Khan
Archery is something that I took up later and didn't know I had a natural aptitude for. — Geena Davis
If the work is high and far,
You must not only aim aright,
But draw the bow with all your might. — Henry David Thoreau
In archery we have something like the way of the superior man. When the archer misses the center of the target, he turns round and seeks for the cause of his failure in himself. — Confucius
When an archer shoots for enjoyment, he has all his skill; when he shoots for a brass buckle, he gets nervous; when he shoots for a prize of gold, he begins to see two targets. — Zhuangzi
My voice has a quiver/ A quiver is where you keep arrows until you shoot them. — Jim Carroll
Short Bows And Arrows Quotes
A man without money is like a bow without arrows. — Indian Proverbs
Remove the temptation of idleness and cupids bow is useless. — Ovid
There is no excellence in archery without great labour. — Maurice Thompson
They no longer had nor could find any arrows, javelins or stones with which to attack us. — Hernando Cortes
Better listen to a broken string than never having bent a bow. — Swedish Proverbs
The shot will go smoothly only when it takes the archer himself by surprise. — Eugen Herrigel
Bows And Arrows Image Quotes
A King only bows down to his Queen.
Bows And Arrows Quotes
I have seen a girl play with dolls but not with bow and arrow like a champion prince. — Afghan Proverbs
Look at me. I was a warrior on this land where the sun rises, now I come from where the sun sets. Whose voice was first surrounded on this land - the red people with bows and arrows. The Great Father says he is good and kind to us. I can't see it. — Red Cloud
Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target. — B.K.S. Iyengar
The history of the bow and arrow is the history of mankind — Fred Bear
I don't think that the contradictions between capitalism and socialism can be resolved by war. This is no longer the age of the bow and arrow. It's the nuclear age, and war can annihilate us all. The only way to achieve solutions seems to be for the different social systems to coexist. — Fidel Castro
I did archery when I was in high school. In our gym class we had two weeks of archery and I remember taking the bow and arrow and firing it up and across the street into a car parking lot. — Sayings
Sometimes, you just have to bow your head, say a prayer, and weather the storm.
I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be? — Orlando Bloom
These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of war as are common among the Indians of the Missouri. — William Henry Ashley
Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that'll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months. — Eric Clapton
In a hunting society, children play with bows and arrows. In an information society, children play with information — Henry Jenkins
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is slicked o'er with the pale cast of thought — William Shakespeare
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day — William Shakespeare
A good archer is known not by his arrows but by his aim.
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? — William Shakespeare
Often we take personally the slings and arrows of our 'abusers'. But frequently we are merely the interchangeable pawns of their own neurotic dramas. Anyone else in your position would have received the same treatment. There is nothing especially noxious or negatively noteworthy about you. — Brian Weiss
No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone. — Martha Beck
To die: - to sleep: No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. — William Shakespeare
Archery Quotes
In the case of archery, the hitter and the hit are no longer two opposing objects, but are one reality. — Eugen Herrigel
Immerse yourself in the outdoor experience. It will cleanse your soul and make your a better person. — Fred Bear
Flower of this purple dye, Hit with Cupid's archery, Sink in apple of his eye. — William Shakespeare
Life isnt tied with a bow, but still it's a gift
I've done archery for about six weeks, and rock climbing, tree climbing - and combat, running and vaulting. But also yoga and things like that, to stay catlike! — Jennifer Lawrence
You have to relax when you're shooting an arrow. You can't be tense. And that just helps, in your day-to-day life. — Stephen Amell
The right art is purposeless, aimless! The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede. — D.T. Suzuki
The Superior Man has nothing to compete for. But if he must compete, he does it in an archery match, wherein he ascends to his position, bowing in deference. Descending, he drinks the ritual cup. — Confucius
No person learned the art of archery from me,
who did not in the end make me his target. — Saadi Shirazi
But you must be patient and careful; nor should you expect to become an accomplished archer without long and severe training. — Maurice Thompson
Keep practicing," he told her."Until I get it right?" she said. But he corrected her."No. Until you don't get it wrong. — John Flanagan
Cupid in these latter times has probably laid aside his bow and arrow, and uses fire-arms -- a pistol -- perhaps a revolver. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
You can learn more about hunting deer with a bow and arrow in a week than a gun hunter will learn in his entire life — Fred Bear
We have a bow and arrow and if we aim well, we can hit the target. The problem is that Bayern has a bazooka. The probability that they will hit the target is clearly higher. — Jurgen Klopp
William Tell's son, Telly, who said as his father was pointing the bow and arrow at the apple on his head, There's gotta be an easier way to kill worms. Never got a dinner! — Red Buttons
I'm pretty outdoorsy. My family used to live in the hills in the middle of nowhere pretty much. We literally used to have bow and arrows and air rifles and were throwing knives. — Liam Hemsworth
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth./The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far. — Kahlil Gibran
When you shoot a bow and arrow, you aim at the clouds, not because you expect to hit them, but so that you may reach the distant target on the ground. — Sun Tzu
Let your bending in the Archer's hand be for gladness, for even as he loves the arrow that flies, so he loves also the bow that is stable. — Kahlil Gibran
As the arrow, loosed from the bow by the hand of the practiced archer, does not rest till it has reached the mark, so men pass from God to God. He is the mark for which they have been created, and they do not rest till they find their rest in him. — Soren Kierkegaard
There were details like clothing, hair styles and the fragile objects that hardly ever survive for the archaeologist-musical instruments, bows and arrows, and body ornaments depicted as they were worn... No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely — Mary Leakey
One can only be silent and sit peacefully when one hath arrow and bow; otherwise one prateth and quarrelleth. Let your peace be a victory! — Friedrich Nietzsche
The bow of God's wrath is bent, and His arrows made ready upon the string. Justice points the arrow at your heart and strings the bow. It is nothing but the mere pleasure of God (and that of an angry God without any promise or obligation at all) that keeps the arrow one moment from being made drunk with your blood. — Jonathan Edwards
I grew up around hunters. I love guns, bows, arrows, compasses and binoculars. I don't do any of that stuff, I just like the stuff. I shot one animal, in my life, and I didn't like it. If I had to skin an animal to eat it, I'd probably eat vegetables. — Tim Allen
You may strive to be like them but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. — Kahlil Gibran
It's like going into a nuclear war with bows and arrows. — Joe Kinnear
I now LOVE archery, I find it a very therapeutic sport. I would be taken away for a couple of hours before we started filming to get back into the rhythm so that it was a fluid movement of picking up the bow and then the arrows and just being able to make it look as authentic as possible. — Rose Leslie
For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday. — Kahlil Gibran
Life is an arrow, therefore you must know What mark to aim at, how to use the bow-- Then draw it to the head and let it go! — Henry Van Dyke
You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. — Kahlil Gibran
I have been practicing archery for a long time; a bow and arrow helps me to unwind. — Paulo Coelho
Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child. — Unknown
The dimension of depth in the consciousness of religion creates the tension between what is and what ought to be. It bends the bow from which every arrow of moral action flies. — Reinhold Niebuhr
Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. — Bill Moyers
These natives are a very good people; for when they saw that I would not remain, they supposed that I was afraid of their bows; and, taking their arrows, the broke them in pieces and threw them into the fire. — Henry Hudson
Brilliant thoughts flow with a life of their own to a dedicated reasoning predator up in a tree with a bow and arrow half the year meditating soulfully in anticipation to kill unsuspecting meat-infested herbivores. — Ted Nugent
If to chaffer and higgle are bad in trade, they are much worse in Love. It demands directness as of an arrow. — Henry David Thoreau
Unlike a bow and arrow, a camera by its nature ensures that some kind of target will always be hit, if not necessarily the intended target nor in the intended way. — Luc Sante
Pure essence, and pure matter, and the two joined into one were shot forth without flaw, like three bright arrows from a three-string bow. — Dante Alighieri
Prayer as it comes from the saint is weak and languid; but when the arrow of a saint's prayer is put into the bow of Christ's intercession it pierces the throne of grace. — Thomas Watson
Nothing sharpens the arrow of sarcasm so keenly as the courtesy that polishes it; no reproach is like that we clothe with a smile and present with a bow. — Lord Chesterfield
Cupid has offered his arrows for Jesus to try;He has offered his bow for the game.But Jesus went weeping away, and left him there wondering why. — Harold Monro
Whatever you focus on, you become. That is the key line, you know. Meditation is the bow and concentration is the arrow. — Frederick Lenz
When your bow is broken and your last arrow spent, then shoot, shoot
with your whole heart. — Roger Zelazny
I would rather speak the truth to ten men than blandishments and lying to a million. Try it, ye who think there is nothing in it! Try what it is to speak with God behind you, to speak so as to be only the arrow in the bow which the Almighty draws. — Henry Ward Beecher
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