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Quotes About Feet

Winter sports aren't my thing. You can have your boards and blades and your glacier-gripping cleats: My feet prefer to negotiate the ground on a pair of dependable soles.
~ Julia Glass
I played rugby in the winter, cricket in the summer, and for a brief period was on the books at Cardiff City. Athletics was only sports day for me. In fact, I never really liked it. I was never too keen on a sport that didn't have a ball at your feet.
~ Lynn Davies
Helpless I lie. And around me the feet of thy watchers tread. There is a rumour and a radiance of wings above my head, An intolerable radiance of wings....
~ Rupert Brooke
Democracy is like a raft: It won't sink, but you will always have your feet wet.
~ Russell B. Long
I can control my thoughts as necessary; then how can I be troubled? What is outside my mind means nothing to it. Absorb that lesson and your feet stand firm. You can return to life. Look at things as you did before. And life returns.
~ Marcus Aurelius
What is it about winter that causes people to drive as if their hands are feet?
~ Margaret Atwood
Four angels standing round my bed, Two to feet and two to head; One to watch and one to pray, And two to carry my soul away.
~ Margaret Atwood
And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen?
~ William Blake
I was frozen like in a dream when your feet weigh fifty pounds each and the danger is almost upon you.
~ Anne Lamott
You have everyone else at your feet, Miss Lydia. Why should you need me as well? For a moment she couldn't speak, mesmerized by the torment she saw in the dark depths of his eyes. Because you're the one I want, she said in a hushed voice.
~ Anne Stuart
Today is one of those excellent January partly cloudies in which light chooses an unexpected part of the landscape to trick out in gilt, and then the shadow sweeps it away. You know you're alive. You take huge steps, trying to feel the planet's roundness arc between your feet.
~ Annie Dillard
The moment her feet touched the floor, a chill ran up her spine. She was standing on her sweatshirt, which lay next to her bed in a crumpled pile. It was soaking wet.
~ Scott Westerfeld
I'm through begging for mercy. No one heeds it when I do anyway. Better I should die on my feet with all the dignity a whore can manage than crawling on my belly like a worthless slave. (Acheron)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Even the contemplative life is only an effort, Nora my dear, to hide the body so the feet won't stick out.
~ Djuna Barnes
Is it not enough to make me come back to life out of spite, to have someone who spat in my face while I existed come and rub my feet when I am beginning to exist no longer?
~ Michel de Montaigne
People tend to comment on my feet a lot. In daily life.
~ Toks Olagundoye
You should see ballerinas' feet. They don't have nails. You see beauty, but it's unbelievable pain - with a 40-year pension! That's it, and then life is really finished.
~ Marina Abramovic
I sought Ben Affleck because I needed an everyman for this role. Ben appeals to men and women. He gives you a sense of intelligence, the notion of a guy who can think on his feet.
~ John Frankenheimer
Gail Bonneville's chair squeaked noisily as she leaned all the way back and stretched to relieve the kink that now owned space between her shoulder blades. With her feet up on her desk,
~ John Gilstrap
Patty felt another blush stain her cheeks as she drew her knees up and, hurrying her feet under her bulk, hid herself in differential equations again.
~ Elizabeth Bear
How can people in California have problems with their feet?" asks Molly moving around Olive with a plate of sandwiches. "Don't they drive everywhere?
~ Elizabeth Strout
King is delighted. He ask one old woman walking by if she wasn't too old for this, ask her if her feet not tired. My feet is tired she say, but my soul is rested.
~ Arthur Flowers
there was no Russian army anymore to fight. "They have voted with their feet by running away," Lenin said sardonically.
~ Arthur Herman
vio un par de pies frente a sí. Calzaban
~ B. Traven