Footsteps Quotes - Page 6

• The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try and catch on to His coattails as He marches past.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Past, Trying, Tasks

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• Journal became a sanctuary where I could pour out in honesty my pain and joy. It recorded my footsteps and helped me understand where I was standing, where I had been, and even where God pointed.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Pain, Honesty, Joy

  Sue Monk Kidd (1987). “God's Joyful Surprise: Finding Yourself Loved”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Within my heart a garden grows, wild with violets and fragrant rose. bright daffodils line the narrow path, my footsteps silent as i pass. sweet tulips nod their heads in rest; i kneel in prayer to seek gods best. for round my garden a fence stands firm to guard my heart so i can learn who should enter, and who should wait on the other side of my locked gate. i clasp the key around my neck and wonder if the time is yet. if i unlocked the gate today, would you come in? or run away?

  Robin Jones Gunn

  Running, Sweet, Prayer

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• The song I came to sing remains unsung to this day. I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my instrument. The time has not come true, the words have not been rightly set; only there is the agony of wishing in my heart….. I have not seen his face, nor have I listened to his voice; only I have heard his gentle footsteps from the road before my house….. But the lamp has not been lit and I cannot ask him into my house; I live in the hope of meeting with him; but this meeting is not yet.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Song, Heart, Agony

  Rabindranath Tagore, “Gitanjali”

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• like our parents always told us not to like firefighters warn against we're playing games and making the rules up as we go we're matching warmth to warmth starting fires burning wishes into our skin we're hidden holding forbidden lights we're children whose fathers have never taught never touch but we're finding these new flames we smother at the sound of footsteps.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Children, Father, Fire

  Naomi Shihab Nye (2010). “Time You Let Me In: 25 Poets under 25”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• Let's go. We're supposed to rendezvous with the Captain at the lake. Oh, and try to keep the noise down. You sound like a panicked moose crashing through the woods," the smarter man chided. "Oh yeah. Like you could hear me over your specially trained 'woodland-animal footsteps,'" Rough Voice countered. "It was like listening to two deer humping each other.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Men, Animal, Lakes

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Poison Study”, p.103, Harlequin

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• Capturing the beauty of the conversion of the water into wine, the poet Alexander Pope said, "The conscious water saw its Master and blushed." That sublime description could be reworked to explain each one of these miracles. Was it any different in principle for a broken body to mend at the command of its Maker? Was it far-fetched for the Creator of the universe, who fashioned matter out of nothing, to multiply bread for the crowd? Was it not within the power of the One who called all the molecules into existence to interlock them that they might bear His footsteps?

  Ravi Zacharias

  Wine, Water, Broken

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• He looked at a world of incredible loveliness. Old distaff Celt's blood in some back chamber of his brain moved him to discourse with the birches, with the oaks. A cool green fire kept breaking in the woods and he could hear the footsteps of the dead. Everything had fallen from him. He scarce could tell where his being ended or the world began nor did he care. He lay on his back in the gravel, the earth's core sucking his bones, a moment's giddy vertigo with this illusion of falling outward through blue and windy space, over the offside of the planet, hurtling through the high thin cirrus.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Fall, Blood, Space

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• To wait. In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions all together occupy a bare one percent of our time. The remaining ninety-nine percent is just living in waiting. I wait in momentary expectation, feeling as though my breasts are being crushed, for the sound in the corridor of the footsteps of happiness. Empty. Oh, life is too painful, the reality that confirms the universal belief that it is best not to be born.

  Osamu Dazai

  Reality, Ninety Nine, Expectations

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• ...Tunstell was not what one could describe as call subtle. His flaming red hair bobbed up with each pointed and articulated footstep as though he were some cloaked Gothic villain creeping across a stage.

  Gail Carriger

  Hair, Red, Gothic

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• ...and our footsteps rang and echoed till it sounded like the room was full of dancers, the house calling up all the people who had danced here across centuries of spring evenings, gallant girls seeing gallant boys off to war, old men and women straight-backed while outside their world disintegrated and the new one battered at their doors, all of them bruised and all of them laughing, welcoming us into their long lineage.

  Tana French

  Girl, Spring, War

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• Writing will be like a journey, every word a footstep that takes me further into undiscovered land.

  David Almond

  Writing, Journey, Land

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• I still preserve those relics of past sufferings and experience, like pillars of witness set up in travelling through the valve of life, to mark particular occurrences. The footsteps are obliterated now; the face of the country may be changed; but the pillar is still there, to remind me how all things were when it was reared.

  Anne Bronte

  Country, Past, Suffering

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• But if you tame me, my life will be filled with sunshine. I'll know the sound of footsteps that will be different from all the rest. Others send me back underground. Yours will call me out of my burrow like music.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Sunshine, Sound, Different

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• When the leaves rustle, they sound very much like the stealthy movement of a woman in evening dress, and when they shiver suddenly, and fall, and scatter away along the ground, they might be the patter of a woman’s hurrying footsteps, and the mark in the gravel the imprint of a high-heeled shoe.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Fall, Shoes, Sound

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• Disbelief held me down inside my footsteps, making my body heavy but my heart wild.

  Markus Zusak

  Heart, Body, Heavy

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• Architecture has its own realm. It has a special physical relationship with life. I do not think of it primarily as either a message or symbol, but as an envelope and background for life which goes on in and around it, a sensitive container for the rhythm of footsteps on the floor, for the concentration of work, for the silence of sleep.

  Peter Zumthor

  Sleep, Thinking, Silence

  Peter Zumthor (1998). “Peter Zumthor”

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• Order my footsteps by Thy Word and make my heart sincere; let sin have no dominion, Lord, but keep my conscience clear.

  Isaac Watts

  Christian, Heart, Order

  Isaac Watts, John Rippon (1840). “Dr. Watts' Psalms and hymns with Dr. Rippon's selection: containing all the additional hymns : with copious indices, including an index of the first line of each verse of Psalms and hymns”, p.70

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• Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd, As home his footsteps he hath turn'd From wandering on a foreign strand! If such there breathe, go mark him well; For him no Minstrel raptures swell; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim; Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonor'd, and unsung.

  Walter Scott

  Home, Heart, Men

  Sir Walter Scott (1873). “Poetical Works”, p.42

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• Fossil bones and footsteps and ruined homes are the solid facts of history, but the surest hints, the most enduring signs, lie in those miniscule genes. For a moment we protect them with our lives, then like relay runners with a baton, we pass them on to be carried by our descendents. There is a poetry in genetics which is more difficult to discern in broken bomes, and genes are the only unbroken living thread that weaves back and forth through all those boneyards.

  Jonathan Kingdon

  Lying, Home, Science

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• In a way, it's a great thing that I have the opportunity to stand at the crossroads of Los Angeles and Indianapolis, and stay right here, ... People say that reality is in the footsteps, and not the words. That, as much as anybody, gives you a chance to show your sincerity and commitment, and what you're all about as far as leaving a legacy.

  Jim Irsay

  Commitment, Opportunity, Reality

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• Individuality is a real power inherent in all and the development and consequent expression of this power enables one to assume the responsibility of directing his own footsteps rather than stampeding after some self-assertive bell-wether.

  Charles F. Haanel

  Real, Responsibility, Self

  Charles F. Haanel (2006). “Mental Chemistry”, p.60, Kallisti Publishing

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• Our children must follow in our footsteps; after all, we are older and know about the world.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Children, Inspiration

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• I don't think there are any footsteps to be walked in. No one else has taken things that you can buy at the grocery store and put them together. I hope that I have a career as long as Julia Child.

  Sandra Lee

  Children, Taken, Thinking

  "Sandra Lee: Food Network Didn’t Want Cocktails, Hopes Career Is As Long As Julia Child’s" by Rob Shuter, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 9, 2012.

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• It is only by walking in the digital footsteps of your customer that you can uncover a new landscape of opportunities for engagement as well as a new reality for your business.

  Brian Solis

  Opportunity, Reality, Engagement

  Brian Solis (2013). “What's the Future of Business?: Changing the Way Businesses Create Experiences”, p.100, John Wiley & Sons

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