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Quotes About Footsteps

all he could hear was their running, fading footsteps.
~ Adam Blade
Through the windows you could hear the sounds of footsteps on the cobbles below and the hiss and whir of bicycles passing in their shoals and drifts; and most of all you could hear the bells that rang unendingly from the town's many churches, striking not just the hours, but the quarter and half hours, so that each segment of time became a seed of silence that then blossomed, filling the air with what almost seemed a kind of self-description.
~ Rachel Cusk
The feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is the marvel to mortals revealed.
~ Phillips Brooks
I've seen the video played over and over, and it replays in my head constantly. To be able to walk in his exact footsteps is an extremely huge honor, and I did this for him as much as I did it for my family to get some closure too.
~ Nik Wallenda
With slight risk of exaggeration you could say that he walked almost every mile of the Indian land.
~ Satish Kumar
I am a prince I have it all, and I hear your foot steps on the wall, I wait in silence for your call, and take a shot and watch you fall.
~ Trey Anastasio
We stopped, and the silence driven away by the stamping of our feet flowed back again from the recesses of the
~ Joseph Conrad
Tell them I came, and no one answered, That I kept my word," he said. Never the least stir made the listeners, Though every word he spake Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house From the one man left awake: Ay, they heard his foot upon the stirrup, And the sound of iron on stone, And how the silence surged softly backward, When the plunging hoofs were gone.
~ Walter de La Mare
Às vezes, penso que tudo isso faz parte de um caminho que hoje traço, mas que não foi inventado por mim. É um caminho seguro por ter sido pisado muitas vezes pelos pés descalços dos ancestrais. As marcas não são minhas, porém foram plantadas em mim.
~ Daniel Munduruku
brushed with the first crimson of sunrise. On the oval track the comb marks of the rakes in the dirt showed no footsteps; Saul always ran better on fresh earth. He stripped and tossed
~ James Cannon
Outside the door were the clear sounds of marching footsteps.
~ Douglas Adams
The face of all the world is changed, I think Since first I heard the footsteps of thy soul. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
~ Ahdaf Soueif
I want to tell her that promises are as dangerous as secrets, but by then she's floating out the door. I hear her light footsteps on the stairs, and then the front door slams.
~ Aimee Friedman
I'd always fought against presenting radio really, because my father was a radio DJ in Australia. He's just recently retired. And I kind of didn't want to follow in his footsteps. But I suppose, as we all find as we become older, to some extent we do all become our parents.
~ Jarvis Cocker
We write history with our feet and with our presence and our collective voice and vision.
~ Rebecca Solnit
It seemed to him that the sound of his footfalls had become as loud to his ears as the sound of his own heartbeat. Vital, life and death sound.
~ Richard Bachman
She walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth.
~ John Green
Life is a concoction of fatal determinism and the footsteps of us all.
~ Jay Cavanagh
Never again will your footsteps b repeated upon this earth. your life is the life that can make a difference.
~ Sravani Saha Nakhro
Be careful, darling. Your footsteps land heavy here. Your racket will wake the dragons.
~ Sarah Kay
He made the world to be a grassy road Before her wandering feet.
~ William Butler Yeats
He heard footsteps on the ice and just as someone pounded on the door death came swiftly into the trailer like a physical presence. It came swiftly up the steps and turned the knob and so through the door, crossing the linoleum with a sure firm footstep toward where the old man sat on the bed with the pistol in his hand.
~ William Gay
You can hear the footsteps of God when silence reigns in the mind.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
In the vast, and the minute, we see The unambiguous footsteps of the God, Who gives its lustre to an insect's wing And wheels His throne upon the rolling worlds.
~ William Cowper