Feet Quotes - Page 35

• And so I have to live. Because we live for more than just ourselves, Most of the time we live for others, keep putting one foot before the other, left and right, left and right, so that walking becomes a habit, just like breathing. Ina n out, left and right.

  Thrity Umrigar

  Breathing, Live For Others, Habit

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• Reading Bicycling beyond the Divide was the best vacation I took all year-in a year I traveled to Mexico, France, and Italy. Even if you have never ridden a bike or set foot in the West, this book will make both a part of your life as vivid as any trip you have taken. Daryl Farmer's journey-into the heart of a land, of a time, into the very nature of memory and experience-is one I will never forget.

  Jesse Lee Kercheval

  Memories, Reading, Book

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• When you have one foot in the future and the other in the past, you piss on the present.

  Dan Harris

  Past

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• I don't know about flying, but sometimes it feels like I have these little wings on my feet.

  Michael Jordan

  Wings, Flying, Littles

  Michael Jordan, David J. Stern, National Basketball Association (2000). “The Official NBA Encyclopedia”, Doubleday Books

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• A comparably capacious embrace of beauty and pleasure - an embrace that somehow extends to death as well as life, to dissolution as well as creation - characterizes Montaigne's restless reflections on matter in motion, Cervantes's chronicle of his mad knight, Michelangelo's depiction of flayed skin, Leonardo's sketches of whirlpools, Caravaggio's loving attention to the dirty soles of Christ's feet.

  Stephen Greenblatt

  Dirty, Reflection, Knights

  Stephen Greenblatt (2011). “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern”, p.12, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The time has come for someone to put his foot down, and that foot is me.

  John Vernon

  Down And

  "Fictional character: Dean Vernon Wormer". "Animal House", www.imdb.com. 1978.

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• To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
  To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
  and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
  and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.

  Wendell Berry

  Dark, Light, Sight

  Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.121, Counterpoint Press

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• That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the Boiling Spring with his foot, and he it is that has browsed off all the woods on Walden shore, that Trojan horse, with a thousand men in his belly, introduced by mercenary Greeks! Where is the country's champion, the Moore of Moore Hall, to meet him at the Deep Cut and thrust an avenging lance between the ribs of the bloated pest?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Horse, Spring

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.139, Xist Publishing

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• Night. Heavenly delicious sweet night of the desert that calls all of us to love her. The night is our comfort with her coolness and darkness. On wings, on feet, on our bellies, out we all come to glory in the night.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Sweet, Night, Wings

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• Whether our feet are compressed in iron shoes, our faces hidden with veils and masks; whether yoked with cows to draw the plow through its furrows, or classed with idiots, lunatics and criminals in the laws and constitutions of the State, the principle is the same; for the humiliations of the spirit are as real as the visible badges of servitude.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Real, Law, Shoes

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Ellen Carol DuBois (1992). “The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony reader: correspondence, writings, speeches”, Northeastern Univ Pr

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• If a picture wasn't going very well I'd put a puppy dog in it, always a mongrel, you know, never one of the full bred puppies. And then I'd put a bandage on its foot... I liked it when I did it, but now I'm sick of it.

  Norman Rockwell

  Dog, Sick, Puppy

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• Yes no yes no yes no? Red blue? Yes red, no blue? No red, yes no? In out, up down? Do don't, can can't? Choices sit on the shelf life New shoes in a shoe shop. If the in crowd are squeezing into a must-have shoe And the one pair left are too tiny for you Don't feel compelled into choosing them If you're really a size 9, buy that size. While everyone else Hobbles round with sore feet Your choices should feel comfortable Or they aren't your choices at all. Why limp when you can sprint

  Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

  Blue, Shoes, Choices

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• First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms.

  Kristin Hunter

  Inspirational, Men, Two

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• We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go there. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.

  Edward Abbey

  Needs, May, Wilderness

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• Too many American authors have a servile streak where their backbone should be. Where's our latest Nobel laureate? More than likely you'll find him in the Rose Garden kissing the First Lady's foot.

  Edward Abbey

  Kissing, Garden, Rose

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.35, RosettaBooks

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• How sublime to look down on the workhouse of nature, to see her clouds, hail, snow, rain, thunder, all fabricated at our feet!

  Thomas Jefferson

  Nature, Rain, Clouds

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, 2: Correspondence and Private Papers”, p.49

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• You can wipe your feet on me, twist my motives around all you like, you can dump millstones on my head and drown me in the river, but you can’t get me out of the story. I’m the plot, babe, and don’t ever forget it.

  Margaret Atwood

  Rivers, Twists, Plot

  Margaret Atwood (2011). “Good Bones and Simple Murders”, p.11, Nan A. Talese

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• It happen'd one Day about Noon going towards my Boat, I was exceedingly surpriz'd with the Print of a Man's naked Foot on the Shore.

  Daniel Defoe

  Men, One Day, Noon

  Daniel Defoe (1998). “Robinson Crusoe”, p.112, Courier Corporation

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• The best way to help Africans today is to help them to stand on their own feet. And the best way to do that is by helping create jobs.

  Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

  Jobs, Today, Way

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• I am a creative artist. I have the ability to radiate. Lifting my arms above me, I soar above the earth. Lowering my arms, I continue to soar. In the air moving around my head and shoulders, I experience the power of thoughts. In the air moving around my chest, I experience the power of feelings. In the air moving around my legs and feet, I experience the power of will. I am that

  Michael Chekhov

  Moving, Artist, Air

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• I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade... the rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet... Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.

  Marquis de Sade

  Writing, Men, Blood

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• Corruption never has been compulsory; when the cities lie at the monster's feet there are left the mountains.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Lying, Cities, Mountain

  Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt (2001). “The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers”, p.23, Stanford University Press

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• We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds... A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Men, Hands

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4249, Delphi Classics

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• Every night before bed, I rub my wife's feet. She says they're the best foot rubs on Earth.

  Luke Bryan

  Night, Wife, Bed

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• A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfully surmounting one wave you discover another behind it just as important and just as nervously anxious to do something effective in the way of swamping boats. In a ten-foot dinghy one can get an idea of the resources of the sea in the line of waves that is not probable to the average experience, which is never at sea in a dinghy.

  Stephen Crane

  Lying, Average, Sea

  Stephen Crane (1993). “The Open Boat and Other Stories”, p.58, Courier Corporation

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