Foot Quotes - page 4

The music of the people is like a rare and lovely flower growing amidst encroaching weeds. Thousands pass it, while others trample it under foot, and thus the chances are that it will perish before it is seen by the one discriminating spirit who will prize it above all else. The fact that no one has as yet arisen to make the most of it does not prove that nothing is there. (Antonín Dvořák)
And I say that Your Highnesses ought not to consent that any foreigner does business or sets foot here, except Christian Catholics, since this was the end and the beginning of the enterprise, that it should be for the enhancement and glory of the Christian religion, nor should anyone who is not a good Christian come to these parts. View quote
Christopher Columbus
Equity is a roguish thing. For Law we have a measure, know what to trust to; Equity is according to the conscience of him that is Chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is Equity. 'T is all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a "foot" a Chancellor's foot; what an uncertain measure would this be! One Chancellor has a long foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot. 'T is the same thing in the Chancellor's conscience. View quote
John Selden
A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dash'd the dew. View quote
Walter Scott
It has been observed that the height of a man from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot is equal to the distance between the tips of the middle fingers of the two hands when extended in a straight line. View quote
Pliny the Elder
Above all, we must forgive the unhappy souls who have elected to make the pilgrimage on foot, who skirt the shore and look uncomprehendingly upon the horror of the struggle, the joy of victory, the profound hopelessness of the vanquished. View quote
Joseph Conrad
That the sweetly intoxicating three-four rhythm which took hold of hand & foot, necessarily eclipsed great & serious music & made the audience unfit for any intellectual effort goes without saying. View quote
Eduard Hanslick
We do not want a single foot of foreign territory; but of our territory we shall not surrender a single inch to anyone. View quote
Joseph Stalin
Mathematics my foot! Algorithms are mathematics too, and often more interesting and definitely more useful. View quote
Doron Zeilberger
A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles. View quote
Edward Abbey
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think. (John Burroughs)
Nothing is more miserable than those people who never failed to attack their own salvation. When there was need to observe the Law, they trampled it under foot. ... On this account Stephen said: "You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart, you always resist the Holy Spirit", not only by transgressing the Law but also by wishing to observe it at the wrong time. View quote
John Chrysostom
At first, all is black and white. Black on white. That's where I'm walking, through pages. These pages. Sometimes it gets so that I have one foot in the pages and the words, and the other in what they speak of. View quote
Markus Zusak
He could't have survied a hundred foot drop. I'm sorry Annabeth. View quote
Rick Riordan
I'm six foot four and a half and I have a temper. It's reserved for very important issues. If someone is asking me to make an artistic concession, then I'll become a madman. View quote
Tim Robbins
Aim high, and you won't shoot your foot off. View quote
Phyllis Diller
Cause I'm gonna put my foot so far up their butts they're going to burp shoe leather. (Nick) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
You must know that I am made of death, from head to foot, and it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you! View quote
Gaston Leroux
I'm shooting in Brooklyn, we've got all kinds of crap going on, and I'm all alone now in a big hotel suite that you can't believe the size of it and a thing sticks in my foot and I just think it's the funniest thing that's ever happened to me. View quote
Danny DeVito
I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed. View quote
David Benioff
Fish don't have hands; to investigate, they open their mouth, and sometimes it's someone's foot. (Jeremy Wade)
How do you say yoo-hoo in Arabic?" "I believe that yoo-hoo could be part of a universal language," Dan said. "Like ow. Or- you're stepping on my foot." "That's universal?" "No, you're stepping on my foot. Ow." Amy moved. View quote
Jude Watson
The 'Tarahumara' use their legs 'as designed.' By running at a young age with minimal footwear, they naturally develop the best biomechanical use of their legs. Cushioned shoes restrict foot movements and allow for over-striding. Short strides are natural. View quote
Christopher McDougall
My mother used to sit at the foot of my bed, and she would share her dreams with me. View quote
Liz Murray
No, I am never setting foot in this house again it scares me and makes me sad and I wish you could be a mom whose eyes worked but I don't think you can. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson