Bowing Quotes

I always made an awkward bow.

I don't quite comprehend why you'd force someone to bow when the purpose of the gesture is to display allegiance and respect.

I wouldn't mind a little bow. In Japan, they bow. I love it. Only thing I love about Japan.

That is one reason so many of the Japanese pictures are not good, they cannot spare all the footage necessary for that bow, which is repeated over and over again.

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?

I was told that karate has a courtesy: 'Start with a bow and end with a bow.' This is something important we value in our lives, because we never forget courtesy and a feeling of gratitude wherever we go.

My first experience of doing martial arts was weird, real traditional, strange smell with incense burning. We did a lot of bowing, it was a lot of path of least resistance and go with the flow... Really good stuff for when you're at a young age.

The Danes kept the English in a very degraded position, and often did them dishonor. If 100 English met one Dane, evil arose if they did not bow themselves to him; and if they came upon a bridge, they were required to wait; it was a crime if they moved before the Dane passed. In passing, every one inclined himself; whoever did not, if he was taken was shamelessly beaten. In such vileness were the English, so did the Danes vilify them.

A fox in its hour—bow to it.

If you bow at all, bow low.

Japanese children have infinitely more developed bodies than those in the West. From the age of two, a child learns to sit in a perfectly balanced manner; between two and three, the child begins to bow regularly, which is a wonderful exercise for the body.

To bend and prostrate oneself to express sentiments of respect, appears to be a natural motion.

As we learn to bow, we discover that the heart holds more freedom and compassion than we could imagine.