Bending Down Quotes by Andrew Peterson, Mary Catherine Bateson, Helen Hunt Jackson, Frank Zappa, William Butler Yeats, David Soul and many others.
Love is not a feeling in your chest; it is bending down to wash another’s feet.
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.
The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down.
There’s a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.
One man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
…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
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.
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.
