Quotes About Soles

We had to take off our shoes after school to save wear on the soles.

the soles of her huge bare feet

The telephone box smelled urinous, of cigarette butts and dirt from a thousand silt-clogged soles.

A few years back, when my style was 'punk grandma,' I picked up an amazing pair of sandals - orthopaedic ones, with really thick soles. I've given them away to a friend now, because these days my look is more '1980s substitute teacher gone wild.'

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.

you have to soak the soles in vodka, otherwise the sugar won't take. "Now I get it," I said. "If there's no vodka, the sugar goes to waste. And if there's no sugar, there's no squeak. Like the Mishna says: If there's no food, there's no Torah.

How many funerals had he attended, how many open graves had he seen, watched the coffins eased down, or sometimes just a frayed mat in which the corpse was bundled, the feet sticking out, the soles white and sometimes still specked with dirt if he was a farmer and could not afford slippers, least of all shoes. -Istak

Oh, Georgia booze is mighty fine booze,The best yuh ever poured yuh,But it eats the soles right offen yore shoes,For Hell's broke loose in Georgia.

You must confess yourself. It is the way to love the truth. Tell me who sent you, and I will let you sit in the Eel Bath." "Let me?" This was less incentive than he thought. "And I will let you lick clean the soles of True Believers in the time beyond the Year of Carnage!

I see you go bare-shod. This is most likely extremely sensible. Shoes are no end of trouble for girls. . . . How many have danced to death in slippers of silk and glass and fur and wood? Too many to count—the graveyards, they are so full these days. You are very wise to let your soles become grubby with mud, to let them grow their own slippers of moss and clay and calluses. This is far preferable to shoes which may become wicked at any moment.