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  • If you understand real practice, then archery or other activities can be zen. If you don't understand how to practice archery in its true sense, then even though you practice very hard, what you acquire is just technique. It won't help you through and through. Perhaps you can hit the mark without trying, but without a bow and arrow you cannot do anything. If you understand the point of practice, then even without a bow and arrow the archery will help you. How you get that kind of power or ability is only through right practice.

    Real   Archery   Practice  
  • It is an old custom amongst Jewish children, to become war-like on the 'L'ag Beomer.' They arm themselves from head to foot with wooden swords, pop-guns and bows and arrows. They take food with them, and go off to wage war.

    Children   War   Gun  
  • The history of the bow and arrow is the history of mankind

    Archery   Arrows   Bows  
  • 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.

    School   Archery   Class  
    "‘Arrow’: John Barrowman talks archery, ‘Doctor Who’ anniversary". Interview with Patrick Kevin Day, herocomplex.latimes.com. December 12, 2012.
  • Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow.

  • Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

    The Prophet "On Children" (1923)
  • You may strive to be like them but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

    'The Prophet' (1923) 'On Children'
  • Patience is more than endurance. A saint's life is in the hands of God like a bow and arrow in the hands of an archer. God is aiming at something the saint cannot see, and He stretches and strains, and every now and again the saint says--'I cannot stand anymore.' God does not heed, He goes on stretching till His purpose is in sight, then He lets fly. Trust yourself in God's hands. Maintain your relationship to Jesus Christ by the patience of faith. 'Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him.

    Jesus   Archer   Sight  
  • Cupid and my Campaspe play'd At cards for kisses - Cupid paid: He stakes his quiver, bow, and arrows, His mother's doves, and team of sparrows; Loses them too; then down he throws The coral of his lips, the rose Growing one's cheek (but none knows how); With these, the crystal of his brow, And then the dimple of his chin: All these did my Campaspe win. At last he set her both his eyes - She won, and Cupid blind did rise. O Love! has she done this for thee? What shall, alas! become of me?

    Love   Mother   Team  
    John Lyly, “Cards And Kisses”
  • 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.

    Clouds   Arrows   Target  
  • 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.

    War   Thinking   Arrows  
  • 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.

    Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”
  • You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

    Prophet (1923) "On Children"
  • 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.

    Air   Knives   Arrows  
    Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
  • 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.

    War   Gun   Arrows  
  • In a hunting society, children play with bows and arrows. In an information society, children play with information

    Children   Hunting   Play  
  • You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

    Prophet (1923) "On Children"
  • The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by ‘the veil of familiarity.’ The child enjoys his cold meat, otherwise dull to him, by pretending it is buffalo, just killed with his own bow and arrow. And the child is wise. The real meat comes back to him more savory for having been dipped in a story…by putting bread, gold, horse, apple, or the very roads into a myth, we do not retreat from reality: we rediscover it.

    Wise   Horse   Children  
    C. S. Lewis (2013). “Image and Imagination”, p.108, Cambridge University Press
  • Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.

  • 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 (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1139, Delphi Classics
  • For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.

    'The Prophet' (1923) 'On Children'
  • You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts.

    The Prophet "On Children" (1923)
  • No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.

  • 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.

    Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”
  • Hunting and fishing involve killing animals with devices (such as guns) for which the animals have not evolved natural defenses. No animal on earth has adequate defense against a human armed with a gun, a bow and arrow, a trap that can maim, a snare that can strangle, or a fishing lure designed for the sole purpose of fooling fish into thinking they have found something to eat

    Animal   Gun   Thinking  
  • 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.

    Couple   Mean   Guitar  
  • 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.

    Arrows   Years   Tree  
    Source: www.usatoday.com
  • Cupid in these latter times has probably laid aside his bow and arrow, and uses fire-arms -- a pistol -- perhaps a revolver.

    Fire   Arrows   Use  
    Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.436, e-artnow
  • 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

    Science   Arrows   Yield  
  • 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.

    Arrows   Way   Bows  
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