Quotes About Archery

Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what is right?

As of 2015, the Guinness World Record for long distance archery is held by Matt Stutzman, a Paralympic, armless archer.

And one more thing. About my name — Artemis — you were right. In London, it is generally a female name, after the Greek goddess of archery. But every now and then a male comes along with such a talent for hunting that he earns the right to use the name. I am that male. Artemis the hunter. I hunted you.

From medieval tapestries, we know that slingers were capable of hitting birds in flight. They were incredibly accurate.

In 'Robin Hood,' I did quarterstaff fighting.

I took my archery lessons. It was really fun to learn something new.

But you can get arrows from the

I have heard that the ancients used bows and arrows to their advantage.

I think being an archer is much more integral to Green Arrow and his mythos than it is to Hawkeye.

I do love archery in my day-to-day life because I find it very therapeutic, and I've trained every season with the bow and arrow.

Your arrows do not carry,' observed the Master, 'because they do not reach far enough spiritually.' Eugen Herrigel Zen and the Art of Archery

The musket could not be aimed except in a general direction; a bow in the hands of a skilled archer could regularly hit and kill an enemy completely beyond musket range.

I hate those things," grumbled Kel as she removed the bowstring.

Longbows, crossbows, hair bows, rainbows - that's not the point.

These weren't encouraged in the city, since the heft and throw of a longbow's arrow could send it through an innocent bystander a hundred yards away instead of the innocent bystander at whom it was aimed.

It is a condition of wisdom in the archer to be patient because when the arrow leaves the bow, it returns no more. —SA'DI

I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?

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.

The bow is tactically strong at the commencement of battle, especially battles on a moor, as it is possible to shoot quickly among the spearmen.

I can see the first apple teetering when I let the third arrow go, catching the torn flap and ripping it from the bag. For a moment, everything seems frozen in time. Then the apples spill to the ground and I'm blown backward into the air.

Look what I shot." Gale holds up a loaf of bread with an arrow stuck in it, and I laugh.

As soon as I'm in the trees, I retrieve a bow and sheath of arrows from a hollow log.

Jon hung a quiver from his belt and pulled an arrow. The shaft was black, the fletching grey. As he notched it to his string, he remembered something that Theon Greyjoy had once said after a hunt. "The boar can keep his tusks and the bear his claws," he had declared, smiling that way he did. "There's nothing half so mortal as a grey goose feather.

When I don't fancy a man's eyes, I put an arrow through one.