“And, hungry for the old, familiar ways,
I turned aside and bowed my head and wept.”

— Claude McKay

The Tropics in New York, l. 11-12

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Jamaican American writer, poet 1889–1948

P. C. Cast book Destined

Source: Destined

“I wept not, I within so turned to stone.”

Dante Alighieri book Inferno

Canto XXXIII, line 49 (tr. Longfellow).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno

“The beer was empty and our tongues were tired
And running out of things to say.
She gave a kiss to me as I got out
And I watched her drive away.Just for a moment I was back at school
And felt that old familiar pain
And as I turned to make my way back home
The snow turned into rain.”

Dan Fogelberg (1951–2007) singer-songwriter, musician

Same Old Lang Syne.
Song lyrics, The Innocent Age (1981)

“I want to bow my head as if the all pervading God is scolding me. I know that i am a sinner.”

Laxmi Prasad Devkota (1909–1959) Nepali poet

सुस्तरी श्वास फेर

“Direct the six passions to God. The impulse of lust should be turned into the desire to have intercourse with Atman. Feel angry at those who stand in your way to God. Feel greedy for Him. If you must have the feeling of I and mine, then associate it with God. Say, for instance, "My Rama, my Krishna." If you must have pride, then feel like Bibhishana, who said, "I have touched the feet of Rama with my head; I will not bow this head before anyone else."”

Ramakrishna (1836–1886) Indian mystic and religious preacher

Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942), p. 220

“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.”

Lin Yutang (1895–1976) Chinese writer

"A Trip to Anhwei", in With Love And Irony (1940), p. 145

“I don't see why I should bow my head when I could hold it high, or place it in the hands of my enemies when I can defeat them.”

José Rizal (1861–1896) Filipino writer, ophthalmologist, polyglot and nationalist

“I bow my head to the victims of terrorism. I am highly impressed of the courage of New York residents. The great city and the great American nation are to win!”

Vladimir Putin (1952) President of Russia, former Prime Minister

Inscription at the World Trade Center Memorial Wall http://web.archive.org/web/20031117142036/http://www.kremlin.ru/events/photos/2001/11/39974.shtml (15 November 2001).
2000 - 2005

“I bow my head to the love shown by the public in Vadodara. Each voter worked like Narendra Modi. You completed a very big responsibility.”

Narendra Modi (1950) Prime Minister of India

2014, "Election results 2014 LIVE: Vadodara goes wild as hero Modi arrives", 2014

“I have had playmates, I have had companions,
In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days—
All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.”

Charles Lamb (1775–1834) English essayist

Old Familiar Faces (1798).

“And, hungry for the old, familiar ways,
I turned aside and bowed my head and wept.”

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