Feet famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Our first duty is to satisfy the spiritual master, who can arrange for the Lord's mercy. A common man must first begin to serve the spiritual master or the devotee. Then, through the mercy of the devotee, the Lord will be satisfied. Unless one receives the dust of a devotee's lotus feet on one's head, there is no possibility of advancement. Unless one approaches a pure devotee, he cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
-- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada -
I sought them far and found them, The sure, the straight, the brave, The hearts I lost my own to, The souls I could not save They braced their belts about them, They crossed in ships the sea, They sought and found six feet of ground, And there they died for me.
-- A. E. Housman -
You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.
-- A. J. McLean -
I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.
-- Aaron Allston -
I never stepped foot into a Brooks Brothers before Mad Men.
-- Aaron Staton -
What are you doing?" "I'm going to enjoy a long overdue make-out session with my girl. That's what I'm doing." I explained, stepping into the room and closing the door behind me with one shove of my foot.
-- Abbi Glines -
Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.
-- Abby Sunderland -
Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for
-- Abigail Adams -
TIME's Person of the Year for 2006, maintainer of a foot long beard
-- Abraham J. Williams -
Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
My new shorty got a gymnastic back, '87 emerald green on a classic Jag. She had the cleft palate, I ordered chef's salad; She had the club foot, with that little arm, I couldn't help but laugh...she ordered Chicken Parm.
-- Action Bronson -
an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
-- Ada Leverson -
When I'm in power, here's how I'm gonna put the country back on its feet. I'm going to put sterilizing agents in the following products: Sunny Delight, Mountain Dew, and Thick-Crust Pizza. Only the 'tardiest of the 'tards like the thick crust.
-- Adam Carolla -
I think 'Tap Dogs' has lasted so long because people have a natural interest in tap dancing. This form of dancing can't be dated, it's such an intriguing form of dance because the feet are also an an instrument.
-- Adam Garcia -
I started tapping and I was okay. Then after about two years my feet knew what they were doing!
-- Adam Garcia -
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 -
At the age of three my grand aunt proclaimed her independence by categorically refusing to have her feet bound, resolutely tearing off the bandages as fast as they were applied.
-- Adeline Yen Mah -
Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Aeschylus -
It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
-- Aeschylus -
Truly upon mortals cometh swift of foot their evil and his offence upon him that trespasseth against Right.
-- Aeschylus -
It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.
-- Aeschylus -
There is no telling what a human character is. Until the test comes. To most of us the test comes early in life. A man is confronted quite soon with the necessity to stand on his own feet, to face dangers and difficulties and to take his own line of dealing with them. It may be the straight way, it may be the crooked way --- whichever it is, a man usually learns early just what he is made of.
-- Agatha Christie -
No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
-- Agnes de Mille -
When I first came to the House of Commons and walked out into the lobby, men sprang to their feet. I asked them to sit down since I'd come to walk around. I didn't want them doing me favours.
-- Agnes Macphail -
That narrow stretch of sand knows nothing in the world better than it does the white waves that whip it , caress it , collapse on to it . The white foam knows nothing better than those sands which wait for it , rise to it and suck it in .but what do the waves know of the massed, hot, still sands of the desert just twenty , no , ten feet beyond the scalloped edge ? And what does the beach knows of depths, the cold, the currents just there, where-do you see it? - Where the water turns a deeper blue.
-- Ahdaf Soueif -
His hands are saying that he wants to hold her. His feet are saying that he wants to chase after her... He's probably forgotten that I'm here, beside him
-- Ai Yazawa -
It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.
-- Aime Cesaire -
Forget about every other lesson in the book. You have to be able to tap your foot or else none of what you doing you are not gonna have any control of your symptom.
-- Al Di Meola -
I dated Siamese twins, I slept with Big Foot, too. Get me on Sally Jesse, put me on Donahue.
-- Al Yankovic -
A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
-- Alan Bennett -
Scotland have this habit of kicking themselves in the foot
-- Alan Brazil -
Im not supposed to be within two hundred feet of a school or a Chuck E. Cheese.
-- Alan Garner -
Here's Brian Flynn. His official height is five feet five and he doesn't look much taller than that
-- Alan Green -
The ball was literally glued to the back of his foot - into the back of the net.
-- Alan Parry -
For every discouragement has been allowed to come to us in order that through it we may be cast in utter helplessness at the Saviour's feet.
-- Alan Redpath -
I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.
-- Alan Rickman -
The first plane ride was in a homemade glider my buddy and I built. Unfortunately we didn't get more than four feet off the ground, because it crashed.
-- Alan Shepard -
My favorite part of my appearance is my height. I'm five foot one and I feel feminine being small.
-- Alanna Ubach -
I'd still like to see 'Survivor' minus the planned show-biz parts. That would be the purest form of show business - I want to see someone so hungry that they eat somebody else's foot.
-- Albert Brooks -
The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
-- Albert Camus -
Einstein was once asked how many feet are in a mile. Einstein's reply was "I don't know, why should I fill my brain with facts I can find in two minutes in any standard reference book?
-- Albert Einstein -
As a general principle, I should put it that a man's country is where the things he loves are most respected. Circumstances may have prevented his ever setting foot there, but it remains his country.
-- Albert J. Nock -
Henri IV's feet and armpits enjoyed an international reputation.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Every gain made by individuals or societies is almost instantly taken for granted. The luminous ceiling toward which we raise our longing eyes becomes, when we have climbed to the next floor, a stretch of disregarded linoleum beneath our feet.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-south-west; then paused, and after a few seconds, turned as unhurriedly back towards the left. South-south-west, south, south-east, east...
-- Aldous Huxley -
I wish I could avoid the people who have threatened me. My favorite threat is that I will be thrown in the River Miljacka, which is at most knee-deep, with my feet bound in cement.
-- Aleksandar Hemon -
Yes, you live with your feet in the mud and there's no time to be thinking about how you got in or how you're going to get out.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
Deep walkability describes a city that is built in such a way that you can move from one area to another on foot, on bicycle, on transit and have an experience that remains a pleasant one, that you feel you are welcome not just in the neighborhood but moving between neighborhoods.
-- Alex Steffen -
College has been oversold. It has been oversold to students who end up dropping out or graduating with degrees that don't help them very much in the job market. It also has been oversold to the taxpayers, who foot the bill for subsidies that do nothing to encourage innovation and economic growth.
-- Alex Tabarrok -
We should be careful of the insults we fling at others, lest they return and land at our feet, newly minted to apply to those who had first coined them.
-- Alexander McCall Smith -
Leave not a foot of verse, a foot of stone, A Page, a Grave, that they can call their own; But spread, my sons, your glory thin or thick, On passive paper, or on solid brick.
-- Alexander Pope -
I am involved in the land of a leonine and brave people, where every foot of the ground is like a well of steel, confronting my soldier. You have brought only one son into the world, but everyone in this land can be called an Alexander.
-- Alexander the Great -
I used to sleep with the phone right by my pillow but I'm getting better. Now it sits on the table a few feet away.
-- Alexandra Guarnaschelli -
Sometimes we have to put our foot down, ... but before we deliberately make children unhappy in order to get them to get into the car, or to do their homework or whatever, we need to weigh whether what we're doing to make it happen is worth the possible strain on our relationship with them.
-- Alfie Kohn -
We are all alike, and we love to keep passion aglow at our feet, Like one that sitteth in shade and complacently smiles at the heat.
-- Alfred Austin -
But the main things about a man are his eyes and his feet. He should be able to see the world and go after it.
-- Alfred Doblin -
Walking I am unbound, and find that precious unity of life and imagination, that silent outgoing self, which is so easy to loose, but which a high moments seems to start up again from the deepest rhythms of my own body. How often have I had this longing for an infinite walk - of going unimpeded, until the movement of my body as I walk fell into the flight of streets under my feet - until I in my body and the world in its skin of earth were blended into a single act of knowing.
-- Alfred Kazin -
You're suspended sixty feet up in the air, you've been up there for three hours, and all the shot requires is that you have to sort of react to getting punched in the head.
-- Alfred Molina -
Ask nothing more of me sweet; All I can give you I give; Heart of my heart were it more, More would be laid at your feet..
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
You just have to start putting one foot in front of the other, making an effort to get healthy every day.
-- Ali Vincent -
In fifty years time, the need for true psychics and conscious mediums (such as H.P.B., for instance [Helena Petrova Blavatsky]) will be very great if the Masters' plans are to be carried through to fruition, and the movement must be set on foot in preparation for the coming of Him for Whom all nations wait
-- Alice Bailey -
Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia Our time is forever now.
-- Alice Childress -
I had not thought of violets of late, The wild, shy kind that springs beneath you feet In wistful April days.
-- Alice Dunbar Nelson -
Notwithstanding the poverty of my outside experience, I have always had a significance for myself, and every chance to stumle along my straight and narrow little path, and to worship at the feet of my Deity, and what more can a human soul ask for?
-- Alice James -
the feet should have more of the acquaintance of earth, and know more of flowers, freshness, cool brooks, wild thyme, and salt sand than does anything else about us. ... It is only the entirely unshod that have lively feet.
-- Alice Meynell -
Tender, too, is the silence of human feet. You have but to pass a season amongst the barefooted to find that man, who, shod, makes so much ado, is naturally as silent as snow.
-- Alice Meynell -
No one on the street thought anything of the downtown girl dressed in black who had paused in the middle of midtown foot traffic. In her art student camouflage she could walk the entire length of Manhattan and, if not blend in, be classified and therefore ignored.
-- Alice Sebold -
Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life.
-- Alice Thomas Ellis -
I endured quite a few injuries when I was younger and had my first surgery on my foot when I was 15. But I love dancing. 'Anna Karenina' was great for me as it meant I could combine the two and I actually went back and did some classes.
-- Alicia Vikander -
A man who lifts his chin in pride will fail to see the chasm at his feet.
-- Alison Goodman -
It rose slowly like a gull sensing a reckless blue fish to close to the surface, and then it dived relentlessly for the green, kicked and stopped three feet short of the flag.
-- Alistair Cooke -
You are always wanting miracles; but God sows miracles by handfuls under your feet, and yet you still have people who deny their existence.
-- Allan Kardec -
It felt as if maybe the curse had lifted, the tide had shifted, but then the breeze picked up and a skeet took a very unfortunate turn. Seconds later, Angus was pulling his shot far to the right, shooting a large hole in the second-story galley not ten feet above Marcus's head.
-- Ally Carter -
So I stepped away, reminding myself that when you're a spy, sometimes all you can do is go on. One foot in front of the other, wherever the narrow path might lead.
-- Ally Carter -
You'd better not be trying to steal that," she said. The boy shrugged and reached for the small rolling suitcase at her feet. "I wouldn't dare." "Because I'm an excellent yeller." "I don't doubt it." "And fighter. My cousin gave me this nail file... the thing's just like a switchblade.
-- Ally Carter -
Resenting the obtuseness of others is not good ground for shooting oneself in the foot.
-- Amartya Sen -
A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic. The editor of an English magazine having received a letter pointing out the erroneous nature of his views and style, and signed "Perfection," promptly wrote at the foot of the letter: "I don't agree with you," and mailed it to Matthew Arnold.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
When among the graves of thy fellows, walk with circumspection; thine own is open at thy feet.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Absence really can make the heart grow fonder, even when the [man's] feet wander.
-- Amy Dickinson -
I think our culture encourages all of us to always put our best foot forward. I think it's a good thing. I think it's nice to rise to the occasion, to be kind and considerate, and have self control.
-- Amy Grant -
To understand Vers libre, one must abandon all desire to find in it the even rhythm of metrical feet. One must allow the lines to flow as they will when read aloud by an intelligent reader.
-- Amy Lowell -
I'm pretty sure that eating chocolate keeps wrinkles away because I have never seen a 10 year old with a Hershey bar and crows feet.
-- Amy Neftzger -
I have to warn you that my bedroom isn't the best place to stage an assault on me. It's where I'm at my weakest, with my bed a mere twenty feet away.
-- Amy Plum -
Always remember your kid's name. Always remember where you put your kid. Don't let your kid drive until their feet can reach the pedals. Use the right size diapers... for yourself. And, when in doubt, make funny faces.
-- Amy Poehler -
If you can surf your life rather than plant your feet, you will be happier.
-- Amy Poehler -
There are certain things you learn to do as a parent - using every single part of your body because you're multitasking all the time. You're holding the baby and you're closing the door with your left foot.
-- Amy Ryan -
I cried when I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. And then I laughed REALLY hard.
-- Amy Sedaris -
I sleep with my feet on moss carpets, my branches in the cotton of the clouds.
-- Anais Nin -
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 -
Hate brings me to my knees, love gets me on my feet.
-- Andre Agassi -
I live by the beat like you live check to check. If you don't move your feet then I don't eat, So we like neck to neck.
-- Andre Benjamin -
I got knocked down, I don't know how many years ago and I haven't been off my feet since, and I responded again against the best in division without the respect of having the chin I'm supposed to have.
-- Andre Ward -
All women have a complicated relationship to beauty, but as a transgender woman it's a bit more complicated. There's a lot of pressure to appear feminine. When I was younger, I was most insecure about my size, my angular features, my feet, my hands . At the end of the day, it's about being comfortable in your own skin, and being able to walk down the street and not have people question your gender - and, for me, being perceived as a woman.
-- Andrej Pejic -
It is ourselves that we must spread under Christ's feet, not coats nor lifeless branches or shoots of trees...
-- Andrew of Crete -
Love is not a feeling in your chest; it is bending down to wash another's feet.
-- Andrew Peterson -
Monsters just outside our peripheral vision are scarier to contemplate than monsters miles away or in someplace only a fool would set foot in.
-- Andrew Pyper
