5 Feet Quotes

If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.

I had not thought of violets of late, The wild, shy kind that springs beneath you feet In wistful April days.

Even before we . . . had reached 300 feet, I recognized that the sky would be my home. I tumbled out of the airplane with stars in my eyes.

Find a man with both feet firmly on the ground and you've found a man about to make a difficult putt.

Grab your pig's feet, bread, and gin, there's plenty in the kitchen. I wonder what the poor people are eating tonight?

American diplomacy is easy on the brain but hell on the feet.

I vow to spend the rest of my life keeping your hands and feet warm.

The fool is looking for happiness far away. The wise man makes it grow under his feet.

The real crucial link in the international exchange is the last three feet, which is bridged by personal contact, one person talking to another.

Jesus washing the disciples feet is the most supreme act of humility in all of God’s word.

Mastery is the art of setting your foot on the path.

You can put people's feet to the fire a bit just by reminding them that we're constantly creating our own history.

Everything I own can fit in two suitcases and a foot locker.

Speeches are for the younger men who are going places. And I'm not going anyplace except six feet under the floor of that little chapel adjoining the museum and library at Abilene.

It took the whole of Creation to produce my foot, my each feather: now I hold Creation in my foot.

It is often difficult to watch yourself onscreen, especially 60-feet high. As an actor, it is an uncomfortable experience.

Everyday, everywhere our children spread their dreams beneath our feet and we should tread softly.

The French flag is the only one to have a staff a thousand feet tall.

A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.

When you agree to collaborate, you agree to jump off a cliff holding hands with everyone, hoping the resourcefulness of each will insure that you all land on your feet.

I see the hitter when he's moved in the box, like when he's moved closer to the plate or changed his stance. I see when the batter has moved his feet, and then I make my own adjustment.

I can't work completely out of my imagination-I must put my foot in a bit of truth-and then I can fly free.

I am a helicopter pilot. Something that gives me pleasure sometimes is taking my helicopter to go high, 2000 meter, 6000 feet, to go there and feel like a bird. In this moment I feel free.

If you find your feet dragging, check your path. You are probably on the wrong one.

I was walking down the street. something caught my eye, and dragged it fifteen feet.

Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.

Remember, you can't steal second if you don't take your foot off first.

A regret understood by no one: the regret to be a pessimist. It’s not easy to be on the wrong foot with life.

Well, you can't compete with a six foot five man in a wig.

Like a duck on the pond. On the surface everything looks calm, but beneath the water those little feet are churning a mile a minute.

Some people come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede -- not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above 14.

You can always land on your feet if you know where the ground is.

I would rather a thousand times be five minutes at the feet of Christ than listen a lifetime to all the wise men in the world.

Imagine being served a plate of sushi. But this plate also holds all of the animals that were killed for your serving of sushi. The plate might have to be five feet across.

And only the sure of foot can give a hand to him who stumbles.

The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a train up the mountain, and it's icy, and I'm in bare feet.

I don't like big feet. It reminds me of gammon.

There are so many people, deaf or otherwise abled, who are so talented but overlooked or not given a chance to even get their foot in the door.

I remembered her once saying that life was like your shoes. You couldn't simply expect or imagine that your shoes would fit perfectly. Shoes that pinched your feet were a fact of life.

I'm six foot eleven. My birthday covers three days.

Some things are fairly obvious when it's a seven-foot skeleton with a scythe telling you them.

Sometimes he sits at your feet looking into your face with an expression so gentle and caressing that the depth of his gaze startles you.

They kept on hollering, and I simply had to put my foot down. I said, 'I'm the governor and I say the ignorant in this state have to learn, blacks as well as whites.' And they learned.

On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the Glowing Hours with Flying feet

A cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high.

Every morning is a battle between the superego and the id, and I am a mere foot soldier with mud and a snooze button on her shield.

Next time I'll be braver, I'll be my own savior, Standing on my own two feet.

How tall are you big boy? Six foot nine inches! Let's go up to my place and talk about the nine inches!

Good keepers sniff out attacks whether with the feet or a throw out.

I learn to love the thing that has to be erased, the thing I may not be allowed to keep, sand that runs away beneath my running feet.