Feet Quotes - Page 15

• That's the trouble with Nick. The only time he opens his mouth is to change feet.

  David Feherty

  Golf, Mouths, Trouble

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• We are all too much inclined, I think, to walk through life with our eyes shut. There are things all round us and right at our very feet that we have never seen, because we have never really looked.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Life, Eye, Thinking

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• There is probably nothing finer than to climb free and unencumbered by equipment, reveling in the gymnastic upward movement, like Preuss or a Dulfer before you, relying only upon yourself, keeping a sharp eye on things, feeling the rock beneath your feet and fingertips.

  Hermann Buhl

  Eye, Rocks, Feelings

  Reinhold Messner, Horst Höfler, Hermann Buhl (2000). “Hermann Buhl: climbing without compromise”, The Mountaineers Books

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• I do not plan in any way to whitewash my sin. I do not call it a mistake, a mendacity; I call it sin. I would much rather, if possible - and in my estimation it would not be possible - to make it worse than less than it actually is. I have no one but myself to blame. I do not lay the fault or the blame of the charge at anyone else's feet. For no one is to blame but I take the responsibility. I take the blame. I take the fault.

  Jimmy Swaggart

  Mistake, Responsibility, Apology

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

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• The rich do not have to invest enough in the poorest countries to make them rich; they need to invest enough so that these countries can get their foot on the economic ladder . . . Economic development works. It can be successful. It tends to build on itself. But it must get started.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Country, Successful, Ladders

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• If you can walk with your head in the clouds and keep your feet on the ground, you can make a million dollars in the NBA.

  Gary Dornhoefer

  Funny, Basketball, Clouds

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• The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Dream, Women, Motherhood

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• [The papists] ought to have sympathy with us weak, poor Christians, and not condemn us or make fun of us because we are learning so childishly to toddle along the benches, nay, to creep in the mire, and cannot skip and dance, on such light feet and legs, over and outside of God's commandments, as they do, the strong heroes and giants ... God forbid that we should!

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Sarcastic, Strong

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• Elgin's game was an incredible performance, also. I don't think there's any comparison. Elgin did it without three-point lines. His game was attacking the hoop and hitting jumpers inside 20 feet. Kobe's range is unreal, and he does it his way.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Thinking, Games

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• I think that my God-given physical attributes, big hands, and big feet, the way that I'm built, proportion-wise, just made basketball the most inviting sport for me to play.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Sports, Wise

  The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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• On how to make the game more exciting - Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size of the basketball, limit the height of the players to 5 feet 9 inches, bring back the centre jump, allow taxi drivers in for free and allow the players to carry guns.

  Al McGuire

  Inspirational, Funny, Basketball

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• He who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to us, but simply suggest it with a brief gesture, a gesture which starts an ideal trajectory in the air along which we glide until we find ourselves at the feet of the new truth.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Truth, Honesty, Teaching

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• The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Keys, Needs, Ladders

  Jeffrey Sachs (2011). “The End of Poverty: How We Can Make it Happen in Our Lifetime”, p.388, Penguin UK

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• We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Freedom, Believe, Knees

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• I had not thought of violets of late,
  The wild, shy kind that springs beneath you feet
  In wistful April days.

  Alice Dunbar Nelson

  Spring, Shy, Violet

  Alice Dunbar-Nelson, “Sonnet”

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• Hullie's a lot like a garbage can. You step on the pedal with your foot and the top opens up.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Hockey, Nhl, Garbage Cans

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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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• 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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• O thou with dewy locks, who lookest down
  Thro' the clear windows of the morning, turn
  Thine angel eyes upon our western isle,
  Which in full choir hails thy approach, O Spring!
  
  The hills tell each other, and the listening
  Valleys hear; all our longing eyes are turned
  Up to thy bright pavilions: issue forth,
  And let thy holy feet visit our clime.
  
  Come o'er the eastern hills, and let our winds
  Kiss thy perfumed garments; let us taste
  Thy morn and evening breath; scatter thy pearls
  Upon our love-sick land that mourns for thee.

  William Blake

  Morning, Spring, Eye

  William Blake (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)”, p.18, Delphi Classics

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• The noiseless foot of Tune steals swiftly by
  And ere we dream of manhood, age is nigh.

  Juvenal

  Dream, Time, Age

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• This cabin, Mary, in my sight appears,
  Built as it has been in our waning years,
  A rest afforded to our weary feet,
  Preliminary to - the last retreat.

  William Cowper

  Home, Sight, Years

  William Cowper, John William Cunningham, William Hayley (1835). “The Life and Works of William Cowper: His life and letters by William Hayley. Now first completed by the introduction of Cowper's private correspondence”, p.172

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• The seasons, like greater tides, ebb and flow across the continents. Spring advances up the United States at the average rate of about fifteen miles a day. It ascends mountainsides at the rate of about a hundred feet a day. It sweeps ahead like a flood of water, racing down the long valleys, creeping up hillsides in a rising tide. Most of us, like the man who lives on the bank of a river and watches the stream flow by, see only one phase of the movement of spring. Each year the season advances toward us out of the south, sweeps around us, goes flooding away to the north.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Spring, Men, Average

  Edwin Way Teale (1976). “The American seasons”, Dodd Mead

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• I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.

  Mario Cuomo

  Inspirational, Dad, Hard Work

  1984 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 16 July 1984, San Francisco, CA

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• Keep on listening & tapping your feet.

  Count Basie

  Music, Listening, Jazz

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• It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate.

  James A. Baldwin

  Spiritual, Children, Hate

  "Letter from a Region in My Mind" by James Baldwin, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 1962.

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