Feet Off The Ground Quotes

• I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.

  Calvin Trillin

  Food, Feet, Cooking

  Calvin Trillin (1974). “American fried; adventures of a happy eater”

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• In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.

  Elie Wiesel

  Giving Up, Order, Giving

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• When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Change, Happy, Moving

  "Unkempt Thoughts". Book by Stanisław Jerzy Lec, translated by Jacek Galazka, 1962.

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• Hope you're keeping the dust out of your eyes and your feet off the ground.

  Jennifer Niven

  Eye, Dust, Feet

  Jennifer Niven (2011). “Velva Jean Learns to Fly: Book 2 in the Velva Jean series”, p.202, Penguin

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• When you are fifty, you're neither young nor old; you're just uninteresting. When you are sixty, and still dancing, you become something of a curiosity. And boy! if you hit seventy, and can still get a foot off the ground, you're phenomenal!

  Ruth St. Denis

  Dance, Boys, Feet

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• Turtles hate heights. They don't even like being a few feet off the ground. It's the main reason they have resisted evolution for so long-fear of heights. Turtle thinking goes thus: Sure, first our scales turn into feathers and the next thing you know we're flying and chirping and perching on trees. We've seen it happen. Thanks, but we're staying right here in the mud where we belong. You're not going to see us flying full-tilt boogie into a sliding glass door.

  Christopher Moore

  Hate, Thinking, Doors

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• Jack Tatum could hit a man so hard that it would lift both his feet
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  Woody Hayes

  Men, Feet, Lifts

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• Being six feet off the ground does give one a sense of superiority.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Feet, Giving, Doe

  Megan Whalen Turner (2009). “The Thief”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• Bible worship, though at its best it may achieve sublimity by keeping its head in the skies, may also make itself both ridiculousand dangerous by having its feet off the ground.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Bible, Sky, Feet

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• The first plane ride was in a homemade glider my buddy and I built. Unfortunately we didn't get more than four feet off the ground, because it crashed.

  Alan Shepard

  Feet, Four, Firsts

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• First of all, I don't think they have to go that high. That is not necessary, to be that high in the air. I think they're showing off, those pilots. I think we could just go really fast just a few feet off the ground. Just high enough to miss the animals.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Animal, Thinking, Air

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• Kicking leaves you momentarily on one foot, and for that moment you are in a very weak position. If you were to be swept off your feet, you would be finished. This is why lifting your feet off the ground is crazy.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Crazy, Feet, Would Be

  "Aikido Shugyo" by Gōzō Shioda, (p. 79), 1991.

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• I dont believe in labels. I want to do the best I can, all the time. I want to be progressive without getting both feet off the ground at the same time. I want to be prudent without having my mind closed to anything that is new or different. I have often said that I was proud that I was a free man first and an American second, and a public servant third and a Democrat fourth, in that order, and I guess as a Democrat, if I had to takeplace a label on myself, I would want to be a progressive who is prudent.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Believe, Men, Feet

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.368, Best Books on

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• Policemen and security guards wear hats with a peak that comes down low over their eyes. Apparently this is for psychological reasons. Eyebrows are very expressive and you appear a lot more authoritative if you keep them covered up. The advantage of this is that it makes a lot harder for cops to see anything more than six foot off the ground. Which is why painting rooftops and bridges is so easy.

  Banksy

  Eye, Covered Up, Security Guards

  Banksy (2005). “Banksy: wall and piece”, Random House UK

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• Wish on everything. Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And stars of course, first stars and shooting stars. Planes will do if they are the first light in the sky and look like stars. Wish in tunnels, holding your breath and lifting your feet off the ground. Birthday candles. Baby teeth.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Baby, Stars, Attitude

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• Sometimes love needed a lift from its guardian angels, to get its feet off the ground. But once it made its first early beats toward flight, it had to be trusted to take wing on its own and soar past the highest conceivable heights, into the heavens-and beyond.

  Lauren Kate

  Angel, Past, Wings

  Lauren Kate (2012). “Fallen in Love”, p.201, Random House

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• Four grabs a bar with each hand and pulls himself up, easy, like he's sitting up in bed. But he is not comfortable or natural here--- every muscle in his arm stands out. it is a stupid thing for me to think when I am one hundred feet off the ground.

  Veronica Roth

  Stupid, Thinking, Hands

  Veronica Roth (2013). “The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant”, p.71, Harper Collins

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• How do I take a step? How do I lift my foot off the ground, move it through the air a little bit and then bring it down? I had to teach myself to walk again.

  Jonah Lomu

  Moving, Air, Feet

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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