Feet Quotes - Page 11

• A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

  George Santayana

  Country, 4th Of July, Knowledge

  "The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress". Book by George Santayana, Chapter VII: Patriotism, 1905.

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• You're suspended sixty feet up in the air, you've been up there for three hours, and all the shot requires is that you have to sort of react to getting punched in the head.

  Alfred Molina

  Air, Three, Hours

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• Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.

  Horace Walpole

  Ambition, Naked, Necks

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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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• No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty

  James Anthony Froude

  Age, Twenties, Enthusiasm

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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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• Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

  William Butler Yeats

  Dream, Dark, Night

  "HeWishes for the Cloths of Heaven" l. 7 (1899)

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• I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.

  Little Richard

  Being Strong, Mother, Strong Women

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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

  Four, Firsts, Planes

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• We just bought this house. It's too big. It's like 400,000 square feet, or something. We got an indoor lake and ski slope in the house! It's just too big.

  Adam Sandler

  Lakes, Squares, Gnarly

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• Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.

  John Steinbeck

  Hair, Hoarse Voice, Literature

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.8, Penguin

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• From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

  Helen Hayes

  Education, Laughter, Book

  Helen Hayes (1969). “Another Fawcett Crest Book”

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• Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?

  Frida Kahlo

  Uplifting, Strong Women, Art

  "Gal Gadot's 'Wonder Woman' Scholarship Speech Emphasizes That All Superheros Don't Wear Capes" by Nina Bradley, www.bustle.com. December 07, 2017.

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• You can compare me with Greta Garbo. I have big feet, too.

  Lee Remick

  Garbo, Bigs, Compare

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• To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Life, Success, Courage

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• Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Retirement, Home, Evening

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Poems 1”, p.371, Reprint Services Corporation

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• God bless Ray Charles. It was such an honor to meet him and sing with him and actually just to watch him sing from just two feet away.

  Norah Jones

  Two, Honor, Rays

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• The old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying that such a laugh was money in a man's pocket, because it cut down the doctor's bills like everything.

  Mark Twain

  Laughter, Cutting, Men

  Mark Twain (1876). “Mississippi Writings”, p.181, Library of America

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• For me, it's a responsibility to represent my family every time I step foot in the ring. When I came into this WWE business, there was a bar set for me. My goal is to push it as high as I can to make my family's legacy even stronger. To add to the history that's already been created. So for me, it's a huge challenge that I'm willing to fight for every single day.

  Roman Reigns

  Responsibility, Fighting, Wwe

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I would not enter on my list of friends
  (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense,
  Yet wanting sensibility) the man
  Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.

  William Cowper

  Real, Men, New Friendship

  'The Task' (1785) bk. 6 'The Winter Walk at Noon' l. 560

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• When Steve and I die, we are going to be buried in the same cemetery, 60-feet 6-inches apart.

  Tim McCarver

  Baseball, Hitting, Inches

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