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Quotes About Footsteps

The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try and catch on to His coattails as He marches past.
~ Otto von Bismarck
Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been compared to that of a man wading through low surf.
~ Roy Blount, Jr.
Journal became a sanctuary where I could pour out in honesty my pain and joy. It recorded my footsteps and helped me understand where I was standing, where I had been, and even where God pointed.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
When we realize every moment is sacred, we understand that every footstep is sacred, too.
~ Molly Friedenfeld
Oh, when we are journeying through the murky night and the dark woods of affliction and sorrow, it is something to find here and there a spray broken, or a leafy stem bent down with the tread of His foot and the brush of His hand as He passed; and to remember that the path He trod He has hallowed, and thus to find lingering fragrance and hidden strength in the remembrance of Him as " in all points tempted like as we are," bearing grief for us, bearing grief with us, bearing grief like us.
~ Alexander MacLaren
I watched what method Nature might take, with intention of subduing the symptom by treading in her footsteps.
~ Thomas Sydenham
Their footsteps sound like the soft hush of rain over the stone floors.
~ Rene Denfeld
The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels.
~ Richard Powers
There was a stiff bell-pull instead of a doorbell that Teddy had to yank hard for any result. They could hear a faint ringing somewhere beyond the fortress-like front door. No footsteps of anyone rushing to open it. It was a house in mourning, Teddy supposed.
~ Kate Atkinson
passed through the entry hall, Karras heard footsteps coming up rapidly behind him. "Father Karras!" Karras turned and saw Karl with his sweater. "Very sorry," said the houseman as he handed it over. "I was thinking to finish much before. But I forget." He handed
~ William Peter Blatty
The grass stoops not, she treads on it so light.
~ William Shakespeare
Followers of Jesus must walk in his footsteps – suffering leads to glory, the cross comes before the crown.
~ David Pawson
My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.
~ David Soul
How can the sky be the limit if there are footsteps on the moon?
~ Emily Marple
We simply cannot consider the earth apart from Christ's footsteps imprinted upon it.
~ Richard J. Foster
Den lange, lange sti over myrene og inn i skogene hvem har trakket opp den? Mannen, mennesket, den første som var her. Det var ingen sti før ham. Siden fulgte et og annet dyr de svake spor over moer og myrer og gjorde dem tydeligere, og siden igjen begynte en og annen lapp å snuse stien opp og gå den når han skulle fra fjell til fjell og se til sin ren. Slik ble stien til gjennom den store almenning som ingen eiet, det herreløse land.
~ Knut Hamsun
Picture yourself standing on a cliff overlooking the ocean. The wind is whipping in your hair. The sun is setting. You long, body and soul, for one thing. One person. You hear footsteps behind you. You turn. Who's there?
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
I've got to follow in the footsteps of Sacha Baron Cohen and do a prank show, or a film with real elements to it.
~ Kayvan Novak
I looked back to see Holmes mincing within my footsteps, his skirt drawn up to reveal the trousers below. Were it not for the threat hanging over us, I would have given out with a girlish giggle at the sight, but I refrained. I passed the gates with the revolver in my hand, but there was no human there, only a scurry in the dustbins.
~ Laurie R. King
He loved the desert because there the wind blew out one's footsteps like candle flames.
~ Lawrence Durrell
Vienna. It means nothing to me but to Orson Welles, it was the setting for one of his finest performances - and a place to get huge plates of cheap rich food. I followed the footsteps of my hero, which are still visible in the concrete, to the world famous Ferris wheel.
~ Derren Victor Brown
That was Hunter,' said Quinn as his father's footsteps faded away. 'I figured. Since he said to call him Hunter and everything.
~ Jennifer Sturman
Our actions are the ground we walk on.
~ Ethan Hawke
Misha plip-plopping behind him.
~ Andrey Kurkov