5 Feet Quotes

Prayer may be elevating if combined with work, and they who labor with head, hands or feet have faith and are generally quite sure of an immediate and favorable reply.

Persevere even though Hell and destruction should yawn beneath your feet.

I tend to put my foot in my mouth. I'm not good at being diplomatic. I tend to piss people off.

I mean, its hard to be an actor in the city - trying to make it as an actor - because you waitress all night, you get home really late and you're super tired and your feet hurt.

I think these ladies, that group of 130 women, are going to make a difference in what goes on down there, because they're going to hold the locals' feet to the fire.

No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.

I do not think that shoemaker a good workman that makes a great shoe for a little foot.

A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.

A journey of a thousand leagues begins beneath one's feet.

MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that he was mortal.

When among the graves of thy fellows, walk with circumspection; thine own is open at thy feet.

I rely heavily on rhythm when I write. You should tap your foot when you read it, all the way through.

It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand.

Truly upon mortals cometh swift of foot their evil and his offence upon him that trespasseth against Right.

I feel like a midget with muddy feet had been walking over my tongue all night.

I was a full foot taller than any child my age.

Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet.

If you put your foot in it, be sure it's your best foot.

My mother's five foot two and, I'll be honest with you, she's the only person I'm scared of.

You are a flower crushed beneath the feet of the animal that is concealed in a human being. Take comfort, in that you are the flower crushed and not the foot that has crushed it.

The cool part of being an entertainer is getting the opportunity to get your feet wet in all areas.

And one of his partners asked Has he vertigo? and the other glanced out and down and said Oh no, only about ten feet more.

Peace is joy at rest. Joy is peace on its feet. quoting her pastor in Salon, April 25, 2003

Was genius ever ungrateful? Mere talents are dry leaves, tossed up and down by gusts of passion, and scattered and swept away; but, Genius lies on the bosom of Memory, and Gratitude at her feet.

You're always going to be struggling if you haven't got a left foot.

When someone asks us where we want to be in our lives, the last thing that occurs to us is to look down at our feet and say, 'Here, I guess, since this is where I am.'

Fairies in Ireland are sometimes as big as we are, sometimes bigger, and sometimes, as I have been told, about three feet high.

Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost, Who sums the treasure that it carries hence? Torn, trampled under feet, who counts thy cost, Star-eyed intelligence?

Embraces are comminglings from the head even to the feet, And not a pompous high priest entering by a secret place.

Where lambs have nibbled, silent moves the feet of angels bright; unseen they pour blessing, and joy without ceasing, on each bud and blossom, and each sleeping bosom.

Truth like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold screenwriter of Dead Poets' Society.

Old sciences are unraveled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.

She pulls a razor from her boot and a thousand victims fall around her feet.

Let a man then know his worth and keep things under his feet.

Betray mean terror of ridicule, thou shalt find fools enough to mock thee; but answer thou their language with contempt, and the scoffers will lick thy feet.

I learned a long time ago from David Mamet to wipe your feet at the door, get it out on stage and then go about your life.

Though my stabilization chute opens at 96,000 feet, I accelerate for 6,000 feet more before hitting a peak of 614 miles an hour, nine-tenths the speed of sound at my altitude.

I'd still like to see 'Survivor' minus the planned show-biz parts. That would be the purest form of show business - I want to see someone so hungry that they eat somebody else's foot.

We souls on foot, with foot-folk meet: For we that cannot hope to ride For ease or pride, have fellowship.

Nothing is more important to England's arrangements for the World Cup than the state of David Beckham's foot.

We have a duty to encourage one another. Many a time a word of praise or thanks or appreciation or cheer has kept a man on his feet. Blessed is the man who speaks such a word.

You heard it from the heart, you saw it in their eyes. Then I got used to the fact that I couldn't feel my fingers and my feet. That for me was the essence of the battle.

Yet, O thou beautiful rose! Queen rose so fair and sweet. What were lover or crown to thee, without the clay at thy feet?

The modern world is not given to uncritical admiration. It expects its idols to have feet of clay and can be reasonably sure that the press and camera will report their exact dimensions.

O master poet, I have sat down at thy feet. Only let me make my life simple and straight, like a flute of reed for thee to fill with music.

On learning to swim: I'm too big to have some woman hold my stomach and say 'Now kick your feet.'

Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.

The problem with Germans is that they look in the clouds for what lies at their feet.

No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven.

As often as I have witnessed the miracle [birth], held the perfect creature with its tiny hands and feet, each time I have felt as though I were entering a cathedral with prayer in my heart.