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Quotes About Footprints

Nature wasn't for us to rise above. It was for us to sink into; to sleep upon and go bootless, and in silent protest to walk the finest rugs and fanciest tile and leave our naked, muddy footprints as the signatures of new beginnings.
~ Kim Heacox
No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.
~ Robert Baden-Powell
We all leave footprints as we journey through life--make sure yours are worth following.
~ Bob Teague
Mezarl?k boÅŸtu,karlar?n üzerinde ayak izlerinden baÅŸka bir ÅŸey kalmam??t?.Ölü Jeanne,Paris'in kar??s?nda sonsuza kadar yaln?z kal?yordu.
~ Émile Zola
The gutters in the lane overflowed with an odd, languid grace. Water filled the lane; rose from ankle-deep to knee-deep. Insects swam in circles. Urchins splashed about haphazardly, while Saraswati returned from market with a shopping-bag in her hands; insects swam away to avoid this clumsy giant. Her wet footprints printing the floor of the house were as rich with possibility as the first footprint Crusoe found on his island.
~ Amit Chaudhuri
Lo sai perchè su di te soffia il ghibli? Perchè tu sei il deserto. Il vento fa scomparire le orme appena stampate sul tuo corpo. Non credere che queste mie parole siano dettate da rancore, gelosia o altro. Nascono solo dal bene che ti ho voluto. Ti auguro non che tu possa trovare la felicità, ma che nel tuo deserto possa accadere il miracolo di un'oasi. Addio, Laura
~ Andrea Camilleri
Laetoli hominins, but we will never be able to answer them all. They walked down a path
~ Robert Jurmain
It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.
~ Albert Pike
Caminando por la playa, sus pies se hunden en la arena blanca, dejando sus huellas marcadas en la humedad; que una ola salada borra para siempre.
~ Jesús Rodríguez
There aren't any footprints to follow," said Septimus. "That's why I'm going last. To scruffle them." "To what?" asked Beetle and Jenna. "Technical term." "Scruffle--a technical term?
~ Angie Sage
When I leave a room, it's gonna be footprints of funk wherever I stepped, because I'm a soul-funk crusader.
~ Big Boi
While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction.
~ James Branch Cabell
The ancient pages rose among the others, palisaded with strange letters and words, the faint script hardly more readable than the footprints of birds. He read until his eyelids drooped. But as his head dropped, he fancied he caught the sharp savor of sap beneath the chalky dust of the pages, or the heavy perfumes of blossom from the orchards of plums and pears and apples.
~ Lawrence Norfolk
In this transparency, the footprints of the little birds spoke with a muffled voice. What they spoke of was entirely without significance, or else something capable of lifting a life off its hinges: there was no way of knowing.
~ Alessandro Baricco
We were not the first people to tread where we now trod; countless ancestors had come exactly this way. And although their footprints might have been blown away by the wind, we could sense their presence if only we opened our eyes and ears to it. And we could hear their voices, too, if we listened hard enough. We could hear their warnings, their encouragements, their advice - if only we turned our head to the wind and heard the voices, faint and distant, that the wind carried
~ Alexander McCall Smith
That was when I realized I was leaving my footprints all around the room. The soles of my feet were covered with blood. While continuing to move around, I carefully examined the prints. Suddenly I felt like laughing. They were dance steps. The footprints of St. Vitus. Footprints leading nowhere.
~ Roberto Bolano
The ocean filled the footprints where a boy and cat had stood.
~ Lloyd Alexander
Once we were a people who left no tracks. Now we are different. We print ourselves deeply on the earth. We build roads. The ruts and skids of our wheels bite deep and the bush recedes. We make foundations for our buildings and sink wells beside our houses. Our shoes are hard and where we go it is easy to follow. I have left my own tracks, too. I have left behind these words.
~ Louise Erdrich
All the Yeti footprints are all the same bear. The Yeti isn't a fantastic figure. The Yeti is reality.
~ Reinhold Messner
So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.
~ Christy Turlington
Bears are extremely human, even down to their footprints. But I am also a fly fisherman, so I have fished beside brown bears in Alaska and was once charged by a black bear. I love bears.
~ Joseph Monninger
Faptele dumneavoastra vor lasa poate urme adînci de pasi în zapada, dar atît.
~ Franz Kafka
I had been walking one afternoon in Scotland and thought: Why don't I just keep going ? There was, I said, a magic in leaving a line of footprints stretching across Asia.
~ Rory Stewart
He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow