Bend

Famous quotes containing the word bend:

“My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

“I bend my body to the spade
Or grope with a dirty hand.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“It is the women of Europe who pay the price while war rages, and it will be the women who will pay again when war has run its bloody course and Europe sinks down into the slough of poverty like a harried beast too spent to wage the fight. It will be the sonless mothers who will bend their shoulders to the plough and wield in age-palsied hands the reaphook.”
—Kate Richards O’Hare (1877–1948)