Boots Quotes - Page 12

• As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Equality, Men, Rays

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1867). “Pendennis”, p.394

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• We were broke in a way that only kids can be broke. Our toes were black with dye from wearing boots that weren't waterproof. We had infected ear lobes and green rings around our fingers from cheap jewelry. No one ever even had a chocolate bar.

  Heather O'Neill

  Kids, Chocolate, Black

  Heather O'Neill (2009). “Lullabies for Little Criminals: A Novel”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• The rumors of Frank Sinatras violence and his ties to organized crime were such that journalists joked in print about me ending up in concrete boots and sleeping with the fishes if I proceeded to write his biography.

  Kitty Kelley

  Writing, Sleep, Ties

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• You ready? I have gold teeth, I have braids, I'm wearing Rick Owens moon boots, I have rips in my denim, a biker vest, I love artsy girls, my favourite artists are Jimi Hendrix and John Lennon. I'm obsessed with being different.

  ASAP Rocky

  Girl, Rip, Artist

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• I believe in gradual experimentation with running shoes.

  Bill Rodgers

  Running, Believe, Shoes

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• I did pretty good for a guy who never finished high school and used to yodel at square dances.

  Roy Rogers

  School, Squares, Guy

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• The soles of Neil Armstrong's boots on the moon made permanent impressions on our souls and in our national psyche. Ann and I watched those steps together on her parent's sofa. Like all Americans we went to bed that night knowing we lived in the greatest country in the history of the world. God bless Neil Armstrong.

  Mitt Romney

  Country, Moon, Night

  "Election Guide: Romney Rhetoric". Interview with Jason Williams, www.cityweekly.net. October 31, 2012.

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• I have two Golden Boot awards at home. It would be nice to win another, but I wouldn't mind it if I didn't.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Inspirational, Nice, Home

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

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• But if you didn't have more urgent things to do after supper [in boot camp], you could write a letter, loaf, gossip, discuss the myriad mental shortcomings of sergeants and, dearest of all, talk about the female of the species (we became convinced that there was no such creatures, just mythology created by inflamed imaginations - one boy in our company claimed to have seen a girl, over at regimental headquarters; he was unanimously judged a liar and a braggart).

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Girl, Liars, Writing

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• I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contained between my hat and my boots.

  Walt Whitman

  Dying, Leaves Of Grass, Hats

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.8, NYU Press

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• People think six is a great many, when it's children. ...they don't mind six pairs of boots, or six pounds of apples, or six oranges, especially in equations, but they seem to think that you ought not to have five brothers and sisters.

  E. Nesbit

  Brother, Children, Thinking

  E. Nesbit (2013). “Delphi Complete Novels of E. Nesbit”, p.77, Delphi Classics

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• In bed that night I invented a special drain that would be underneath every pillow in New York, and would connect to the reservoir. Whenever people cried themselves to sleep, the tears would all go to the same place, and in the morning the weatherman could report if the water level of the Reservoir of Tears had gone up or down, and you could know if New York is in heavy boots.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Morning, New York, Sleep

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think that the drama of people rising up demanding their own freedom is one that resonates very deeply with America. I think that President Barack Obama has tried and would like to find a way to relate to the Arab Spring, but I think he also wants to be, rightly, very careful that we don't take it over. It is very important that they own this. He is trying to influence it this way but without, "We're so never going to go to the extreme of Iraq and putting boots on the ground again."

  Thomas Friedman

  Spring, Drama, Thinking

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• And then there was Tick. Brave little Tick, who had flown into the faces of an army of rats to save his baby sister. Tick - who never spoke much. Tick - who shared her food. Tick - who was after all just a roach. Just a roach who had given all the time she had left so that Boots could have more. Gregor pressed Boots's fingers against his lips and felt scalding tears begin to slide down his cheeks. He hadn't cried, not the whole time he'd been down here, and there had been plenty of bad stuff. But somehow Tick's sacrifice had crushed whatever thin shell remained between him and sorrow.

  Suzanne Collins

  Baby, Army, Sacrifice

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• So we both strip off our boots and socks and, while there’s some improvement, I could swear he’s making an effort to snap every branch we encounter

  Suzanne Collins

  Effort, Encounters, Branches

  Suzanne Collins (2008). “The Hunger Games”, p.315, Scholastic Inc.

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• The next day she’d examined her red satin sandals and with a frown said, “I’m thinking about buying two snakes.” His are you kidding me “Why?” had caused her to shrug. “I’d name them Leftie and Rightie and when they were big enough, they’d become Mamma’s boots.

  Gena Showalter

  Thinking, Snakes, Names

  Gena Showalter (2011). “Dark Taste of Rapture”, p.390, Simon and Schuster

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• Even if you tell yourself "Today I'm going to drink coffee the wrong way ... from a dirty boot." Even that would be right, because you chose to drink coffee from that boot. Because you can do nothing wrong. You are always right. Even when you say, "I'm such an idiot, I'm so wrong..." you're right. You're right about being wrong. You're right even when you're an idiot. No matter how stupid your idea, you're doomed to be right because it's yours.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Stupid, Coffee, Dirty

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• Boot the grime of this world in the crotch dear.

  Steven Morrissey

  World, Grime, Dear

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• Don’t mind me,” I said. “I’m just the person who tried to rob the place last July.” “No, you diddn’t,” Abby said, appearing on the roof. She was wearing a trim suit and tall black boots. Her hair was pulled into a sleek ponytail at the nape of her neck, and either i was imagining things or Townsend wasn’t quite as good a spy as I thought, because I could have sworn I saw him drool a little. Note to self: your aunt is a hottie.

  Ally Carter

  Aunt, Hair, July

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• Why did I follow her? If you must know, Sir, it was easy. Pound for pound, Puss-in-Boots was the best commander I ever served under.

  L.A. Meyer

  Pounds, Easy, Knows

  L. A. Meyer (2007). “Under the Jolly Roger: Being an Account of the Further Nautical Adventures of Jacky Faber”, p.308, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Where hunters and woodcutters once slept in their boots by the dying light of their thousand fires and went on, old teutonic forebears with eyes incandesced by the visionary light of a massive rapacity, wave on wave of the violent and the insane, their brains stoked with spoorless analogues of all that was, lean aryans with their abrogate Semitic chapbook reenacting the dramas and parable therein.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Drama, Eye, Fire

  "Suttree". Book by Cormac McCarthy (p. 4), May 1979.

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• I jerked to a stop at the door to my room. "What's wrong with my boots?" I said, thinking they were the only thing that I was going to keep on. Ah…the only thing from this outfit, not the only thing total.

  Kim Harrison

  Thinking, Doors, Rooms

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• Boots and leather jackets were strewn on her bed, and what looked like a new knife set. She’d taken a class last winter and was dying to try them out legally on someone.

  Kim Harrison

  Taken, Winter, Knives

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• No matter that you anticipate a thing; you get so used to it as part of the future that its actuality, its arrival, its force and presence, startles you, takes you by surprise, as would a ghost suddenly appearing in the room wearing familiar perfume and boots.

  Lorrie Moore

  Matter, Rooms, Ghost

  FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from Sep 11, 2014

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• The death of Lincoln was a disaster for Christendom. There was no man in the United States great enough to wear his boots and the bankers went anew to grab the riches. I fear that foreign bankers with their craftiness and tortuous tricks will entirely control the exuberant riches of America and use it to systematically corrupt civilization.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Money, Men, Civilization

  "The C.S.L.T.: containing views on Abraham Lincoln as expressed by Bismarck in 1878, from the recollections of Conrad von Bauditz Siem". Book by Conrad von Bauditz Siem, 1915.

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