Quotes of: Feet Keyword

My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground.

Valerie Trierweiler

My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.

Wendi Deng Murdoch

I will lead my people by the hand along the road until their feet are sure and they know the way. Then they may choose for themselves and rule themselves. Then my work will be done.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.

Jane Addams

Imagine your kid is running into the street and you have to sprint after her in bare feet," Eric told me when I picked up my training with him after my time with Ken. "You'll automatically lock into perfect form--you'll be up on your forefeet, with y...

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

Few religions are definite about the size of Heaven, but on the planet Earth the Book of Revelation (ch. XXI, v.16) gives it as a cube 12,000 furlongs on a side. This is somewhat less than 500,000,000,000,000,000,000 cubic feet. Even allowing that th...

The Last Hero

In this city, the victors had delusions of grandeur. It was visual. Across the street from the hotel stood City Hall, sporting an oversized Serb flag that hung from the roof to the ground, a hundred feet tall, fifty feet wide, three horizontal stripe...

Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War

The fear of meeting the opposition of envy, or the illiberality of ignorance is, no doubt, the frequent cause of preventing many ingenious men from ushering opinions into the world which deviate from common practice. Hence for want of energy, the you...

A Treatise on the Improvement of Canal Navigation: Exhibiting the Numerous Advantages to Be Derived from Small Canals and Boats of Two to Five Feet Wide Containing from Two to Five Tons Burthen: With a Description of the Machinery for Facilitating...

But why live in these environments at all? What possessed fish to get out of the water or live in the margins? Think of this: virtually every fish swimming in these 375-million-year-old streams was a predator of some kind. Some were up to sixteen fee...

Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

Saying of the Prophet The Tongue A man slips with his tongue more than with his feet.

Caravan of Dreams

Flashlights would have been nice. Next adventure, Coralee was going to bring a flashlight.

Curses Beneath Her Feet

Sarah turned around and there standing just a few feet from her was the legend himself, and he was far from disappointing.

The Chapel

I could run, too, but my feet hurt. It's tough being a fashion vixen.

Dead End Dating

But of course everything presses forward, even as we dig our feet against the reality of it all.

The Dead-Tossed Waves

...unquestioning automatons blindly marching to the beat - an eerie crunching sound hoards of shuffling feet... (from silent moments)

Enigmatic Evolution

You Say To People 'Throw Off Your Chains' And They Make New Chains For Themselves?

Feet of Clay

I thought dwarfs gold," said Angua. "They just say that to get it into bed.

Feet of Clay

Money is all you can think about when all you have is a price, Carrot said

Feet of Clay

A light like the glint of water on dewy grass flashed from under her feet as she danced.

The Fellowship of the Ring

I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet.

Handle with Care

We’re fine.’ A few feet away, Aurum snarled quietly, which meant Nico was lying.

The Blood of Olympus