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Quotes About Feet

What a stupid innovation! Skate blades. Indoor lakes. It had a perverse, fairy-tale logic, I thought, tying knives to your feet and carving out over frozen water.
~ Karen Russell
When awareness is grounded, we become aware of what is going on in our bodies in the space between our heads and our feet.
~ Gabrielle Roth
the user puts his feet together and the legs up making the form assume a butterfly-wing shape; thus the name, butterfly guard.
~ Gary Jones
It is a weary lament to lay most acts of violence and aggression, from the strictly local to the truly global, squarely at the feet of men. Yet the association is strong and undeniable
~ Bryan Sykes
And right in among those sharks was Queequeg; who often pushed them aside with his floundering feet. A thing altogether incredible were it not that attracted by such prey as a dead whale, the otherwise miscellaneously carnivorous shark will seldom touch a
~ Herman Melville
From the Heliconian Muses, let us now begin the song Of those who hold the great and sacred hill of Helicon, And dance on tender feet around the dark spring in a row, And round about the altar of the son of Kronos go; And when in the Permessos they have bathed their soft, young skin, Or sacred stream Olmeios or the fountain Hippocrene, They make their dancing chorus on the heights of Helicon­ -- So beautiful, beguiling, as their feet glide swiftly on.
~ Hesiod
Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over the heads of men to trap us all. She entangles one man, now another.
~ Homer
Bond surveyed his weapons. They were only his hands and his feet, his Gillette razor and his wristwatch, a heavy Rolex Oyster Perpetual on an expanding bracelet. Used properly, these could be turned into most effective knuckledusters.
~ Ian Fleming
Clive was losing sensation in his feet, and as he stamped them the rhythm gave him back the ten note falling figure, ritardando, a cor anglais, and rising softly against it, contrapuntally, cellos in mirror image. Her face in it. The end.
~ Ian Mcewan
That night he wrote: Did I need you, O feet, In order to reach that distant place? I ask everyone I happen to see there, Have I really arrived? Did I need you, O heart, in order to hate and love? My father always said to me, If you want to make it home alive, hate your enemy.
~ Ibrahim Nasrallah
I gave him my best cryptic smile. He did not fall down to his feet, kiss my shoes, and promise me the world. I must be getting rusty.
~ Ilona Andrews
Kate sat at her desk. Grendel sprawled by her feet, an enormous black monstrosity that had more in common with the hound of the Baskervilles than with any poodle I had ever seen.
~ Ilona Andrews
I joined the army because I was a very self-sufficient young man. I always wanted to stand on my own two feet.
~ Ant Middleton
My favorite body part? My feet.They're not pretty but they get me where I want to go.
~ Patricia Heaton
I can't wear flat shoes. My feet repel them. I was in agony. My high heels had left my feet bleeding. Laugh all you want, my feet hurt
~ Mariah Carey
A girl in want of a Leopard still has feet.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
My feet are completely flat, but for most of my life they were still shaped like feet. Now, thanks to bunions, they're shaped more like states, wide boring ones that nobody wants to drive through.
~ David Sedaris
Rhizan gathered in writhing clumps at his hands and feet
~ Steven Erikson
Everybody's feet seemed to itch to dance; robes swung more widely as people walked around the settlement and eyes sparked with a desire for childish wickedness.
~ Storm Constantine
We surged out of the balcony into a milling crowd, where I stumbled over feet and trod on people's gowns, my arm in the merciless grasp of Liviana.
~ Storm Constantine
In soccer, female athletes across the world wear shoes that are not meant for us, our feet, or our game.
~ Becky Sauerbrunn
I moisturise my feet every day with Scholl Dry Skin Instant Recovery Cream, a non-greasy cream which leaves my feet feeling soft and supple instantly.
~ Laura Whitmore
They are lovely pigeons to look at and their eyes are full of lessons to learn.. They came back yesterday, they came back home, was the answer. They came back limping on their feet with their toes turned in so far they nearly turned backward. Every day the last six days I get a telegram, six telegrams from six pigeons--and at last they come home.
~ Carl Sandburg
The fog comes on little cat feet.
~ Carl Sandburg