Legs Quotes - Page 13

• The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall down and skin your leg they don't tell you what to say.

  Mark Twain

  Fall, Skins, Down And

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.3305, Delphi Classics

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• When people generally are aware of a problem, it can be said to have entered the public consciousness. When people get on their hind legs and holler, the problem has not only entered the public consciousness -- it has also become a part of the public conscience. At that point, things in our democracy begin to hum.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  People, Democracy, Problem

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• There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory cry of the great ape as it issued from the androgynous chest of Johnny Weissmuller, to the accompaniment of thousands of arms and legs snapping during attempts to swing from tree to tree in the backyards of the Republic.

  Gore Vidal

  Men, Swings, Tree

  Gore Vidal (1969). “Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship. (1. Ed.)”, Boston : Little, Brown

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• Celebrity: I picture myself as a marble bust with legs to run everywhere.

  Jean Cocteau

  Running, Fame, Marble

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• It's time for the State Department to permanently change its official policy to allow all members of U.S. citizens' families - no matter what size they are or how many legs they have - to evacuate together when disaster strikes.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Together, Citizens, Matter

  "Pets Should Be Evacuated, Too" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2011.

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• You must fill every inch of your body with the asana from your chest and arms and legs to the tips of your fingers and toes so that the asana radiates from the core of your body and fills the entire diameter and circumference of your limbs. You must feel your intelligence, your awareness, and your consciousness in every inch of your body.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Body, Asana, Arms

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.63, Rodale

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• A Liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest-at the command-of his head.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Men, Hands, Use

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1939, Volume 8”, p.556, Best Books on

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• I had never 'taken a cutting' before ... Do you realize that the whole thing is miraculous? It is exactly as though you were to cut off your wife's leg, stick it in the lawn, and be greeted on the following day by an entirely new woman, sprung from the leg, advancing across the lawn to meet you.

  Beverley Nichols

  Taken, Cutting, Garden

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• When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Kings, Prayer, Praying

  Abraham Joshua Heschel, Harold Kasimow (1991). “No Religion Is an Island: Abraham Joshua Heschel and Interreligious Dialogue”, Orbis Books

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• Boys and girls, And women, that would groan to see a child Pull off an insect's leg, all read of war, The best amusement for our morning meal.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Girl, Morning, Children

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.119

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• The egg it is the source of all. Tis everyone's ancestral hall. The bravest chief that ever fought, The lowest thief that e'er was caught, The harlot's lip, the maiden's leg, They each and all came from an egg.

  Clarence Day

  Eggs, Thieves, Lips

  CLARENCE DAY (1948). “THE BEST”

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• I love to tease men with my legs.

  Eartha Kitt

  Men, Tease

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• Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a countenance to pisse.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Rose, May, Hounds

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• My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write.

  Ernst Mach

  Writing, Broken, Ink

  Ernst Mach (1959). “The Analysis of Sensations: And the Relation of the Physical to the Psychical”

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• It is principally for the sake of the leg that a change in the dress of man is so much to be desired. The leg is the best part of the figure and the best leg is the man s. Man should no longer disguise the long lines, the strong forms, in those lengths of piping or tubing that are of all garments the most stupid.

  Alice Meynell

  Fashion, Strong, Stupid

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• Fortune loves to give bedroom slippers to people with wooden legs, and gloves to those with no hands.

  Theophile Gautier

  Fate, Hands, People

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• The 'Tarahumara' use their legs 'as designed.' By running at a young age with minimal footwear, they naturally develop the best biomechanical use of their legs. Cushioned shoes restrict foot movements and allow for over-striding. Short strides are natural.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Shoes, Feet

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• The temptation to vivify the tale and make it walk abroad on its own legs is hard to deny.

  Gelett Burgess

  Temptation, Deny, Tales

  Gelett Burgess (1916). “The Romance of the Commonplace”

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• I'm no different from anybody else with two arms, two legs, and forty-two hundred hits.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Two, Different

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• Eighty years old! No eyes left, no ears, no teeth, no legs, no wind! And when all is said and done, how astonishingly well one does without them.

  Paul Claudel

  Eye, Years, Wind

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• I used to be teased for the way I wore my hair at school. I used to do things like wear a different-colored sock on each leg.

  Florence Griffith Joyner

  School, Hair, Different

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• Do not use intoxicants of any sort. We who should be serving the world should not ruin our health by smoking and drinking. The money we waste on these things can be used for so many useful things. With the money we smoke away, we can buy an artificial leg for one who has lost a leg, pay for an eye operation for someone with a cataract, or buy a wheelchair for a polio victim. Or, if nothing else, we can buy some spiritual books for the local library.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Drinking, Food

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• I find in the domestic duck that the bones of the wing weigh less and the bones of the leg more, in proportion to the whole skeleton, than do the same bones in the wild duck; and this change may be safely attributed to the domestic duck flying much less, and walking more, than its wild parents.

  Charles Darwin

  Change, Science, Skeletons

  Charles Darwin (2010). “The Origin of Species: A Variorum Text”, p.83, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Fred Davis, the doyen of snooker, now 67 years of age and too old to get his leg over, prefers to use his left hand.

  Ted Lowe

  Hands, Years, Age

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• He licked his bowl and he looked at me, and then he did the wild thing on my leg.

  Tone-Loc

  Animal, Wild Things, Bowls

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