Feet Quotes - Page 28

• To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not because they have that many feet, but because most people don't want to count to 14-this has had the result that I don't believe anyone any more without checking.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Truth, Believe, Science

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• Ecologically speaking, a spilt tanker load is like sticking a safety pin into an elephant's foot. The planet barely notices. After the Exxon Valdez accident in Alaska the oil company spent billions tidying up the coastline, but it was a waste of money because the waves were cleaning up faster than Exxon could. Environmentalists can never accept the planet's ability to self-heal.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Nature, Science, Elephants

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• Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.

  George Perkins Marsh

  Nature, Men, Agents

  George Perkins Marsh (1864). “Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action”, p.36, New York : C. Scribner

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• Not feeling compassion for a stranger is like not feeling when one's foot has caught fire

  Confucius

  Compassion, Fire, Feelings

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• Having kids has been great for me. I have two beautiful step- kids, as well as my own new daughter. They've really helped me to keep my feet firmly on the ground, and life is good. I feel like I'm the luckiest guy here.

  Matt LeBlanc

  Beautiful, Daughter, Mother

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• I feel like a midget with muddy feet had been walking over my tongue all night.

  W. C. Fields

  Drinking, Food, Night

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• A happy and a glorious Easter will this one be to all of us who get a new vision of the risen Christ, and prostrate ourselves in humble adoration at His feet, and cry out: "Rabboni! Rabboni!" Then shall we set our hearts, lifted into a new atmosphere, on things above, and reach an actual higher life. We shall know more of what it is to live by Christ, in Christ, for Christ, and with Christ, till we reach the marvelous light around the throne in glory.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Easter, Heart, Humble

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• We should notice that we are already supported at every moment. There is the earth below our feet and there is the air, filling our lungs and emptying them. We should begin from this when we need support.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Gratitude, Air, Support

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.72, Shambhala Publications

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• A mind is accustomed to mathematical deduction, when confronted with the faulty foundations of astrology, resists a long, long time, like an obstinate mule, until compelled by beating and curses to put its foot into that dirty puddle.

  Johannes Kepler

  Time, Dirty, Astrology

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• As a physician and as a pilot, I think it lets me be a pretty good translator having one foot in the medical world and one foot in the flying world. Sometimes when the medical guys come in and speak medical stuff to the pilots, the pilots really don't know what they're saying.

  David M. Brown

  Thinking, Guy, Flying

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• By the time I got to the hospital, I certainly realised that I had a problem because I couldn't write or print at that time, which lasted luckily only about four months. I'd gone numb here and on my tongue and the right foot a little bit.

  John Newcombe

  Writing, Gone, Four

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• How do I take a step? How do I lift my foot off the ground, move it through the air a little bit and then bring it down? I had to teach myself to walk again.

  Jonah Lomu

  Moving, Air, Littles

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

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• And I realized that sometimes the greatest triumphs in your life come in on little cat feet and sit on silent haunches and it's up to you to see it before it moves on.

  Sally Field

  Moving, Cat, Triumph

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• Don't be attracted to easy paths because the paths that make your feet bleed are the only way to get ahead in life.

  Saddam Hussein

  Way, Path, Easy

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• Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.

  Dean Acheson

  Business, Chinese, Advertising

  Dean Acheson (1980). “Among friends: personal letters of Dean Acheson”, Dodd Mead

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• What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.

  Larry Wall

  Needs, Path, Easy

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• And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow'd them with her odorous foot.

  Ben Jonson

  Flower, Roots, Where She Went

  Ben Jonson (1875). “The works of Ben Jonson, with notes, and a biogr. memoir, by W. Gifford. With intr. and appendices by F. Cunningham”, p.238

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• I have come to accept that if I have a new haircut it is front page news. But having a picture of my foot on the front page of a national newspaper is a bit exceptional.

  David Beckham

  News, Pages, Accepting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When you come back to God for pardon and salvation, come with all you have to lay all at his feet. Come with your body, to offer it as a living sacrifice upon His altar. Come with your soul and all its powers, and yield them in willing consecration to your God and Saviour. Come, bring them all along-everything, body, soul, intellect, imagination, acquirements-all, without reserve.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Sacrifice, Yield, Imagination

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• It used to be the case that for an Irishman to come to the U.S. involved a perilous journey on a ship. It involved singing lots of songs before you left saying goodbye, and once you were in the U.S., it involved singing lots of songs about how you were never going to set foot in Ireland again.

  Joseph O'Neill

  Goodbye, Song, Journey

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• My girlfriend is a great support, and I've got a big circle of mates who keep my feet on the ground.

  Rob James-Collier

  Girlfriend, Circles, Support

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Opinions are like feet. Everybody's got a couple, and they usually stink.

  Jim Slattery

  Funny, Couple, Crazy

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• My shoes are size 2 and a 1/2, the same size as my feet

  Elaine Paige

  Funny, Shoes, Dumb

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• Superfluous money buys wasted time, propelling desires that otherwise lay buried beneath the feet of honest toil.

  Cyril Smith

  Money, Desire, Toil

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• Here's a six-foot-ten guy in sneakers and the lady's asking me, 'Profession?'

  Jack McMahon

  Funny, Basketball, Sneakers

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