Boots Quotes - Page 22

• In "Three Cups of Tea" I was fairly critical of the military. And I mentioned that they're laptop warriors and there's no boots on the ground. But I can say now that they've gone through a tremendous learning curve.

  Greg Mortenson

  Military, Warrior, Curves

  "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. January 15, 2010.

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• I always felt so much more comfortable in the Western. The minute I got a horse and a hat and a pair of boots on, I felt easier. I didn't feel like I was an actor anymore. I felt like I was the guy out there doing it.

  Joel McCrea

  Horse, Guy, Actors

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

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• I'm a T-shirt-and-jeans-with-combat-boots guy. And if I don't have to shave, I don't.

  Gabriel Macht

  Jeans, Guy, T Shirt

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

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• I felt a funeral in my brain, and mourners to and fro kept treading, treading till I felt that sense was breaking through. And when they all were seated, a service, like a drum, kept beating, beating, till I felt my mind was going numb. And then I heard them lift a box and creak across my soul with those same boots of lead again, then space began to toll, as if the heavens were a bell and being were an ear, and I, and silence, some strange race wrecked, solitary, here. Just then, a plank in reason broke, and I fell down and down and hit a world at every plunge, and finished knowing then.

  Andrew Solomon

  Knowing, Space, Race

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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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• Are my boots old? Is my coat torn? / Am I no longer young, and still not half-perfect?

  Mary Oliver

  Perfect, Half, Coats

  Mary Oliver (2006). “Thirst: Poems”, p.8, Beacon Press

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• Spring comes with joyous laugh, and song, and sunshine, and the burnt sacrifice of the over-ripe boot and the hoary overshoe. The cowboy and the new milch cow carol their roundelay. So does the veteran hen. The common egg of commerce begins to come forth into the market at a price where it can be secured with a step-ladder, and all nature seems tickled.

  Edgar Wilson Nye

  Song, Spring, Sunshine

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• If you put together all the Christians in the world, with their Emperors and their Kings, the whole of these Christians, - aye, and throw in the Saracens to boot, - would not have such power, or be able to do so much as this Kublai, who is Lord of all the Tartars in the world.

  Marco Polo

  Christian, Kings, Together

  Marco Polo, William Marsden (1926). “The travels of Marco Polo, the Venetian”, Doubleday

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• If my mother hadn't thrown my football boots on the fire, I might have become as famous as Denis Compton.

  Len Hutton

  Football, Mother, Fire

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• I believe no-one can insult you without your permission. Shilpa Shetty has paid the price for trying to desperately seek the approval of the West. It is pathetic how we can go on bended knees and lick the boots of Westerners in an effort to be part of their world.

  Mahesh Bhatt

  Believe, Insults You, Effort

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• We [England] have become all Billy Big Time and become too big for our boots, and yet we have got nothing to shout about

  Terry Butcher

  England, Bigs

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• ... And then I heard them lift a box, And creak across my soul With those same boots of lead, again, Then space began to toll.

  Emily Dickinson

  Depression, Space, Soul

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.141, Harvard University Press

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• It's a very complicated matter to become enlightened. If it happens to a person without a teacher in this lifetime, you can bet their boots, they've had about a thousand teachers in their last thousand lives because it's a very complicated thing to do.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Enlightenment, Matter

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• So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf to make an apple pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street pops its head into the shop. What! no soap? So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber; and there were present the Picninnies, and the Grand Panjandrum himself, with the little round button at top, and they all fell to playing the game of catch as catch can, till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots.

  Samuel Foote

  Humorous, Cutting, Garden

  Quoted in Maria Edgeworth, Harry and Lucy (1825).

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• Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life.

  George Eliot

  Shoes, Trouble

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner, and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.123

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• Should ever anything be missed - milk, coals, umbrellas, brandy - the cat's pitched into with a boot or anything that's handy.

  Charles Stuart Calverley

  Cat, Coal, Milk

  Charles Stuart Calverley (1872). “Fly Leaves”, p.41

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• I think my daughter actually influences my style more than having boys. I tend to dress more masculine with pants or shorts or flat boots, and she makes me want to dress more stylish, more girly.

  Kourtney Kardashian

  Daughter, Girly, Boys

  "Exclusive: Kourtney Kardashian On Keeping Up With Three Kids". Interview with Kerry Pieri, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 7, 2015.

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• Sometimes I misstep into something perhaps I shouldn't, but with age comes a thick, high pair of rubber boots to wade through the barnyard. We should all have to get to the dirt and 'muck out' at some point in our lives.

  Janice Tanton

  Age, Wade, Rubber

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• Geoff Hurst had a hammer in his left boot and good left feet are like bricks of gold.

  Jimmy Greaves

  Feet, Gold, Hammers

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• I am not about fringing, cow girl boots, that kind of Coachella vibe. I just wear something comfortable.

  Georgia May Jagger

  Girl, Coachella, Cows

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• The author brings to the table a healthy skepticism of the conventional wisdom, an admirable ability to separate fact from fancy, and an undisguised repugnance for the mumbo-jumbo that's the curse of so much commentary on anything to do with economics or investment. A World of Wealth is not only a lively read, but an exceptionally enlightening and rewarding one to boot.

  Alan Abelson

  Healthy, World, Tables

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• A man goes into Boots and says: "Have you got any Viagra?" "Do you have a prescription?" asks the chemist. "No," he replies, "But 'I've got a photograph of the wife."

  Frank Carson

  Funny, Humor, Men

  "Frank Carson 1926-2012: His greatest one-liners" by Mayer Nissim, www.digitalspy.com. February 23, 2012.

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• Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.

  Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

  Memories, Men, Jewels

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• One knew, of course, that it was not the red cape any more than it was the boots, the tights, the trunks, or the trademark "S" that gave Superman the ability to fly. That ability derived from the effects of the rays of our yellow sun on Superman's alien anatomy, which had evolved under the red sun of Krypton. And yet you had only to tie a towel around your shoulders to feel the strange vibratory pulse of flight stirring in the red sun of your heart.

  Michael Chabon

  Heart, Krypton, Yellow

  Michael Chabon (2011). “Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands”, p.245, Open Road Media

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• WikiLeaks is really a litmus test for those people who walk the talk in the media. How much will they really follow their protestations to be brave publishers, and how much do they really want to lick the boots of power? Well, you can tell by their engagement with us and what they do.

  Julian Assange

  Media, People, Brave

  "A Conversation With Julian Assange". Interview with John Cook, gawker.com. November 29, 2012.

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