Feet Quotes - Page 10

• When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of the other. Just take the next step. That's all there is to it

  Samuel Fuller

  Moving, Next, Steps

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• To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Gun, Arms, Verses

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• I haven't had any problems with my back since I got the foot surgery.

  Merle Haggard

  Problem, Surgery, Havens

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• As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.

  Jack Osbourne

  Thinking, Long, Fine

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• My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Acting, Bananas, Belief

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  He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

  Joseph Joubert

  Inspirational, Education, Learning

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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• Knowledge is the eye which must direct the foot of obedience.

  Thomas Watson

  Eye, Obedience, Direct

  "A Body of Practical Divinity in a Series of Sermons on the Shorter Catechism".

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• Look Toward the stars but keep your feet firmly on the ground.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Stars, Looks

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• I always knew that someday I would once again feel the grass under my feet and walk in the sunshine as a free man.

  Nelson Mandela

  Positive, Sunshine, Men

  "Long Walk to Freedom". Book by Nelson Mandela, 1995.

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• Gravity is measured by the bottom of the foot; we trace the density and texture of the ground through our soles. Standing barefoot on a smooth glacial rock by the sea at sunset, and sensing the warmth of the sun-heated stone through one's soles, is an extraordinarily healing experience, making one part of the eternal cycle of nature. One senses the slow breathing of the earth.

  Juhani Pallasmaa

  Healing, Sunset, Rocks

  Juhani Pallasmaa (2012). “The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses”, p.62, John Wiley & Sons

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• A very good case can be made, on moral as well as economic grounds, for a system in which the individual is required to stand on his own feet, not to lean on the state for handouts. Character, resourcefulness, capacity are formed and developed in struggle with obstacles, not in waiting passively for benefits from outside.

  William Henry Chamberlin

  Struggle, Character, Waiting

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• Some stances are just conducive to swinging. If I stand up straight for too long it's harder to swing. Plus my feet hurt.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Hurt, Swings, Long

  Wynton Marsalis, Carl Vigeland (2002). “Jazz In The Bittersweet Blues Of Life”, p.72, Da Capo Press

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• There are muscles that we have in our feet that most human beings don't even know that we have. The strength that we have is so detailed.

  Misty Copeland

  Muscles, Humans, Knows

  Source: collider.com

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• Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Peace, Height, Lofty

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.131, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• The English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I kiss your feet, and mean, I kick your head.

  Wilfred Owen

  Mean, Kissing, Kicks

  Wilfred Owen (1967). “Collected letters”, Oxford University Press

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• This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.

  Plautus

  Funny, Drinking, Wine

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• My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.

  Edith Wharton

  Love, Dog, Animal

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• My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Cities, Roots, Chicago

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• Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,- One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never.

  William Shakespeare

  Lost Love, Men, Sea

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 3, l. [65]

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• If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.

  Robert F. Goheen

  Graduation, Education, Learning

  1961 Baccalaureate address. Reported in Time magazine, 23 Jun.

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• I was a full foot taller than any child my age.

  Kristen Johnston

  Children, Age

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• Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Inspirational, Life, Grandchildren

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Bishop of Durham) (1890). “Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy”

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• How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven.

  Spike Milligan

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string.

  Spike Milligan

  Hands, Years, Iron

  "The Goon Show, Season 7, Episode 25: "The Histories of Pliny the Elder"". TV Series, March 28, 1957.

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• In the 1950s in Columbia, South Carolina, it was considered OK for kids to play with weird things. We could go to the hardware store and buy 100 feet of dynamite fuse.

  Kary Mullis

  Kids, Play, South Carolina

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