Feet Quotes - Page 16

• It's helped my outlook, how I interact with people. It's made me more conscious. It's helped me be able to focus, make better decisions, think on my feet. I don't know what I'd do without it. It's my sanctuary.

  Andie MacDowell

  Yoga, Thinking, People

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• If it is well with your belly, chest and feet - the wealth of kings can't give you more.

  Horace

  Kings, Giving, Wealth

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• I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.

  Horace Greeley

  Men, Rights, Inferiors

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• People may excite in themselves a glow of compassion, not by toasting their feet at the fire, and saying: "Lord, teach me compassion," but by going and seeking an object that requires compassion.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Compassion, Fire, People

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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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• Every time a player goes out to ply his trade he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play. Some guys play with their heads. That's O.K. You've got to be smart to be Number One in any business. But more important, you've got to play with you heart - with every fiber of your body. If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second.

  Vince Lombardi

  Smart, Heart, Athlete

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• If you ever want to be a decent player, you have to be able to use both feet without stopping to think about it.

  Pele

  Athlete, Player, Thinking

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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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• Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were the easiest for his feet.

  John Selden

  Friendship, Kings, Real

  'Table Talk' (1689) 'Friends'

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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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• Gentlemen, for the first 60 feet that was a hell of a pitch.

  Warren Spahn

  Baseball, Gentleman, Firsts

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• Science is unflinchingly deterministic, and it has begun to force its determinism into morals. On some shining tomorrow a psychoanalyst may be put into the box to prove that perjury is simply a compulsion neurosis, like beating time with the foot at a concert or counting the lampposts along the highway.

  H. L. Mencken

  Shining, May, Neurosis

  H. L. Mencken (1924). “Prejudices Fourth Series”

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• I'm thankful for a pair of shoes that feel really good on my feet; I like my shoes. I'm thankful for the birds; I feel like they're singing just for me when I get up in the morning... Saying, 'Good morning, John. You made it, John.' I'm thankful for the sea breeze that feels so good right now, and the scent of jasmine when the sun starts going down. I'm thankful.

  Johnny Cash

  Morning, Sea Breeze, Shoes

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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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• 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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• 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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• My wretched feet, flayed and swollen to lameness by the sharp air of January, began to heal and subside under the gentler breathings of April; the nights and mornings no longer by their Canadian temperature froze the very blood in our veins; we could now endure the play-hour passed in the garden.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Morning, Spring, Garden

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.66, Penguin

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• The air and the earth interpenetrated in the warm gusts of spring; the soil was full of sunlight, and the sunlight full of red dust. The air one breathed was saturated with earthy smells, and the grass under foot had a reflection of the blue sky in it.

  Willa Cather

  Art, Spring, Reflection

  Willa Cather (2011). “Death Comes for the Archbishop”, p.200, Vintage

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• What joy have I in June's return?
  My feet are parched-my eyeballs burn,
  I scent no flowery gust;
  But faint the flagging zephyr springs,
  With dry Macadam on its wings,
  And turns me 'dust to dust.'

  Thomas Hood

  Spring, June, Dust

  Thomas Hood (1866). “The poetical works of Thomas Hood”, p.488

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• In winter I get up at night
  And dress by yellow candle-light.
  In summer quite the other way,
  I have to go to bed by day.
  
  I have to go to bed and see
  The birds still hopping on the tree,
  Or hear the grown-up people's feet
  Still going past me in the street.
  
  And does it not seem hard to you,
  When all the sky is clear and blue,
  And I should like so much to play,
  To have to go to bed by day?

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Summer, Spring, Winter

  A Child's Garden of Verses "Bed in Summer" l. 1 (1885)

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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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• When we face seemingly insurmountable obstacles in the fulfillment of righteous responsibilities, we should remember that when we are involved in the work of the Lord, the obstacles before us are never as great as the power behind us. We should reach out and climb. Handholds will only be found by hands that are outstretched. Footholds are only for feet that are on the move.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Moving, Adversity, Responsibility

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• I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language-religion-government-blood-identity in these makes men of one country.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Country, Men, Blood

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge, Kathleen Coburn, Bart Keith Winer, Carl Woodring (1990). “Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Table Talk (2 v.)”, Bollingen Foundation

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

  Juvenal

  Dream, Time, Age

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