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Quotes About Feet

Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost, Who sums the treasure that it carries hence? Torn, trampled under feet, who counts thy cost, Star-eyed intelligence?
~ Unknown
The church is the hands and feet of Jesus, and it is our duty to continue the mandate to protect the innocent, while turning perpetrators in to the proper authorities.
~ Mary E. DeMuth
That kind of monotony that running generates - the one soundtracked by heavy breathing and the steady rhythm of feet on pavements - became a kind of metaphor for depression.
~ Matt Haig
In the depressed tissue state, circulation is usually retarded so that there is a lack of circulation to the extremities, resulting in cold hands and feet.
~ Unknown
Once I had flesh the city could pierce with a frown- I'd bleed into sewers like rain. Men without legs on subways moved me, women with swollen feet. Now I belong to them. When I ignore them it's with the confusion of the newly damned- as if I believe I've survived.
~ Unknown
How close we can approach the land of happiness with the heavy shackles on our feet of injustice permeated deeply into every corner?
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The snow had turned to glass, growing green and blue; a rose colour filled our eyes until they almost died. We stayed until we too felt that we too were metamorphosing into trees. We could feel the frost-cold roots beneath our feet, growing, binding us to to the ground.
~ Unknown
Meu Deus, como somos injustos com o nosso corpo. De quem nos esquecemos mais? é dos pés, coitados, que rastejam para nos suportar. São eles que carregam tristeza e felicidade. Mas como estão longe dos olhos, deixamos os pés sozinhos, como se não fossem nossos. "Só por estarmos por cima calcamos os nossos pés. Assim começa a injustiça neste mundo.
~ Mia Couto
And in that vast emptiness, two heads bobbed above the surface without a sound, just one hundred feet from them.
~ Unknown
According to the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, in 2006, one out of six people or 43.1 million Americans suffered foot ailments. Among cultures that don't wear shoes, approximately 2 percent of the population has foot-related injuries, compared to 70 percent among shoe-wearing societies.
~ Unknown
George noticed her feet again. They were nuggety and rectangular, like a young child's feet—even the sparkly turquoise nail polish belonged to a child. He wondered if Pippa bothered with right and left shoes.
~ Unknown
Remember when i slept with my head in a puddle at your feet? It was humility, or atonement. later your ankle was a pillow and finally you pulled me up and in my sleep i placed your hand above my heart, like i forgot i didn't live there anymore
~ Michelle Tea
Everyone knows that if you paint a human being entirely with house paint he will live, as long as you don't paint the bottom of his feet. It takes only a little thing like this to kill a person.
~ Miranda July
I saw the darkness swirling inside him. I saw that his feet did not touch the ground when he played basketball at recess. In moments, he was flying. Not like a bird but subtly, like a person.
~ Miranda July
Apart from wisdom Solomon conquered love, wealth and power were all under his feet.
~ Unknown
Death on the cross raised many doubts in the people. Having some bruises on the hands and feet. But it would've been a different story if the methods of hanging was involved. Simply, because it is the most peaceful death that doesn't involve the shedding of the blood.
~ Unknown
As he stood smiling, a little wave crept up out of the general welter and splashed at his feet for attention. It was Betty.
~ Nathanael West
purposes. The late Roderick Haig-Brown said, "Were it not for the strong, quick life of rivers, for their sparkle in the sunshine, for the cold grayness of them under rain and the feel of them about my legs as I set my feet hard down on rocks or sand or gravel, I should fish less often." Amen.
~ Unknown
A memory of stretching like a dog, the push of feet on turf and flash of teeth flicked across her mind like a leaf on a gust of wind. She tried to catch it back, but it was gone.
~ Nicola Griffith
Clothes are not meant to make people think about what is under the clothes. Clothes are meant to direct attention to what is not under them: merciful hands that serve others in the name of Christ, beautiful feet that carry the gospel where it is needed, and the brightness of a face that has beheld the glory of Jesus.
~ Unknown
And one of his partners asked Has he vertigo? and the other glanced out and down and said Oh no, only about ten feet more.
~ Ogden Nash
I am already at an age and additionally in a state where I must always wash my feet thoroughly before bed, in the event of having to be removed be an ambulance in the Night.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
no great significance that are too highly valued. It is in the feet that all knowledge of Mankind lies hidden; the body sends them a weighty sense of who we really are and how we relate to the earth. It's in the touch of the earth, at its point of contact with the body that the whole mystery is located—the fact that we're built of elements of matter, while also being alien to it, separated from it. The feet—those are our plugs into the socket.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Devilish creatures are always recognized by their feet -- they stamp the earth with a different seal.
~ Olga Tokarczuk