Feet Quotes - Page 32

• There seemed to be some heavenly support beneath his shoulder blades that lifted his feet from the ground in ecstatic suspension, as if he secretly enjoyed the ability to fly but was walking as a compromise to convention.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Support, Compromise, Blades

  Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “Save Me the Waltz: A Novel”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• Dear Torina, I can't face the idea of sacrificing you to this danger. You must stay alive." He caressed her cheek. "Hear me," he went on. "Even if you feel only friendship, Torina, I've loved you since the day you helped me to my feet. I tried so hard to stop. Then I thought you were dead, and my life hurt every day.

  Victoria Hanley

  Hurt, Sacrifice, Ideas

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• The women laughed and wept; the crowd stamped their feet enthusiastically, for at that moment Quasimodo was really beautiful. He was handsome — this orphan, this foundling, this outcast.

  Victor Hugo

  Beautiful, Crowds, Handsome

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• Scream at the mangled leather carcass lying at the foot of the stairs, and my parents would roar with laughter. "That's what you get for leaving your wallet on the kitchen table.

  David Sedaris

  Dog, Laughter, Lying

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• One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.

  Stephen Hawking

  Love, Life, Stars

  "Stephen Hawking on Religion: 'Science Will Win'" by Ki Mae Heussner, abcnews.go.com. June 07, 2010.

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• Vimes struggled to his feet, shook his head and set off after it. No thought was involved. It is the ancient instinct of terriers and policemen to chase anything that runs away.

  Terry Pratchett

  Running, Ancient, Instinct

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Feet Of Clay: (Discworld Novel 19)”, p.154, Random House

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• Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands. Curtsied when you have and kissed The wild waves whist, Foot is featly here and there; And, sweet sprites, the burden bear. Ariel's song, scene II, Act I

  William Shakespeare

  Song, Sweet, Hands

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 375

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• It is my view that our society can be no more stable than the foundation of individual family units upon which it rests. Our government, our institutions, our schools...indeed, our way of life are dependent on healthy marriages and loyalty to the vulnerable little children around our feet.

  James Dobson

  Family, Loyalty, Children

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• The human drama is reaching its denouement. The great unveiling is approaching, a time when the power structures of the world begin to crumble and people of the heart sing out a new truth. Many voices are joining the chorus, many feet are walking the path, many minds are dreaming possibilities for a magnificent future. For beneath the crises that are looming at every level of civilization, the global heart is awakening, beating out the rhythm of a new and glorious dance, calling us to a better way of living.

  Anodea Judith

  Life, Dream, Drama

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• I was a bombadier in WW 2. When you are up 30,000 feet you do not hear the screams or smell the blood or see those without limbs or eyes. It was not til I read Hersey's Hiroshima that I realized what bomber pilots do.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Eye, Blood

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• We placed the wreaths upon the splendid granite sarcophagus, and at its feet, and felt that only the earthly robe we loved so much was there. The pure, tender, loving spirit which loved us so tenderly, is above us - loving us, praying for us, and free from all suffering and woe - yes, that is a comfort, and that first birthday in another world must have been a far brighter one than any in this poor world below!

  Queen Victoria

  Love, Suffering, Wreaths

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• For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

  Virginia Woolf

  Love, Hands, Opposites

  Virginia Woolf, Michael H. Whitworth (2014). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.70, Oxford University Press, USA

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• My senses of space, of distance, and of direction entirely vanished. When I looked for the ground I sometimes looked down, sometimes up, sometimes left, sometimes right. I thought I was very high up when I would suddenly be thown to earth in a near vertical spin. I thought I was very low to the ground and I was pulled up to 3,000 feet in two minutes by the 500-horsepower motor. It danced, it pushed, it tossed. . . . Ah! la la!

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Distance, Two, Space

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• But to fly is just like swimming. You do not forget easily. I have been on the ground for more than ten years. If I close my eyes, however, I can again feel the stick in my right hand, the throttle in my left, the rudder bar beneath my feet. I can sense the freedom and the cleanliness and all the things which a pilot knows.

  Saburo Sakai

  Eye, Swimming, Hands

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• Will you go to His feet and place yourself entirely at His disposal?

  William Booth

  Missionary, Motto, Missions

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• Sleep sweetly, tender heart, in peace;Sleep, holy spirit, blessed soul,While the stars burn, the moons increase,And the great ages onward roll. Sleep till the end, true soul and sweet. Nothing comes to thee new or strange. Sleep full of rest from head to feet;Lie still, dry dust, secure of change.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Sweet, Peace, Stars

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.352, Delphi Classics

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• We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground; we must suppose all the covering of moss and heath and wood to be torn away from the sides of the mountains, and the green mantle that lies near their feet to be lifted up; we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth, and so judge of the part played by each of them during those old convulsive movements whereby her limbs were contorted and drawn up into their present posture.

  Adam Sedgwick

  Mother, Lying, Science

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• He treats me like the dirt under my feet.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Funny, Witty, Dirt

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• Parenting is a stage of life's journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet.

  Robert Breault

  Journey, Parent, Fifty

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• I was testing a P-51 fighter in Minneapolis when I spotted this object. I was at about 10,000 feet on a nice, bright, sunny afternoon. I thought the object was a kite, then I realized that no kite is gonna fly that high.

  Deke Slayton

  Nice, Sunny Afternoon, Kites

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• I'm scared every time I go into the ring, but it's how you handle it. What you have to do is plant your feet, bite down on your mouthpiece and say, 'Let's go.'

  Mike Tyson

  Motivational, Boxing, Scared

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• I was six foot one inch when I started fighting, but with all the uppercuts I'm up to six foot five inches.

  Chuck Wepner

  Funny, Fighting, Boxing

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• There's only one good reason to be a writer-we can't help it! We'd all like to be rich, famous and successful, but if those are our goals, we're off on a wrong foot...I just wanted to earn enough money so I could work at home on my writing.

  Phyllis A. Whitney

  Home, Writing, Successful

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• Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears

  Pauline Oliveros

  Ears, Walks, Bottom

  Pauline Oliveros (1974). “Sonic meditations”

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• I can't wear flat shoes. My feet repel them.

  Mariah Carey

  Shoes, Flats, I Can

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