5 Feet Quotes

When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.

We have our arts, the ancients had theirs... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact.

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

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.

My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor.

Everyone is on the same page and putting their best foot forward.

Golf is a wonderful exercise. You can stand on your feet for hours, watching somebody else putt.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.

France is a dog-hole, and it no more merits the tread of a man's foot.

I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking; so full of valor that they smote the air, for breathing in their faces, beat the ground for kissing of their feet.

She is your treasure, she must have a husband; I must dance bare-foot on her wedding day, And, for your love to her, lead apes in hell.

This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.

Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lender's books, and defy the foul fiend.

How noiseless falls the foot of time!

And though circuitous and obscureThe feet of Nemesis how sure!

The primal duties shine aloft, like stars; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of Man, like flowers.

The road of truth is broad; set the mind on it, and you feel expansive openness and broad clarity. The road of human desires is narrow; set foot on it, and you see brambles and mire before you.

I know stealing a foot is weird. But, hello, living in a house where a foot is available to be stolen is weird.

She had a strange feeling in the pit of her stomach, like when you're swimming and you want to put your feet down on something solid, but the water's deeper than you think and there's nothing there

Money.. Its nothing really worth squabbling about. I mean, this is what puts people six feet under!

'Six Feet Under' was so much about life. Sure, it had a lot to do with death, but that's the fun - that now I became a dead person.

You can't depend on the exposure of a TV screen to keep your feet on the ground and your food tasting delicious. You've got to push yourself.

I think that comedians, more than any other type of celebrity, have to keep their humour and keep their feet on the ground. If they start taking themselves too seriously, they're heading for a fall.

I'd love to have my own TV show, in the way that Julianna Margulies has 'The Good Wife,' or a lovely ensemble show, like 'Six Feet Under.'

I really wanted to be on Six Feet Under as a corpse. That would be hysterical.

Physical elegance comes from the body. This is no superficial matter but rather the way that man found to honour the way he places his two feet on the ground.

I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.

It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.

Faith is not merely a journey for the feet, but it is also a journey for the heart.

Of old sat Freedom on the heights The thunders breaking at her feet: Above her shook the starry lights; She heard the torrents meet.

Arsenal have the wind in their sails and they need to put their foot to the floor.

Kyra Sedgwick told me, 'Keep your heart where your feet are' and that's incredibly difficult to do. It takes a lot of concentration. You've got to be conscientious of each other.

The grief and tears didn't wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet.

Right foot, left foot, right foot, breathe.

I feel like I have one foot in New York, one foot in London and one foot in India. But it's important to me to invest time with family.

Happiness is always the inaccessible castle which sinks in ruin when we set foot on it.

Physics is unable to stand on its own feet, but needs a metaphysics on which to support itself, whatever fine airs it may assume towards the latter.

Don't look too far ahead or you'll get overwhelmed. Just do the next apparent thing. Keep putting one foot in front of the other. You'll get through this. And when you do, you'll feel great!

Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they're afraid to plant themselves?

Chase him down and stall for time. I need two more minutes. ” “Chase him down? How? The Neon has a flat.” “With your own two feet!” “You mean exercise?

Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.

When you see grown men near to tears because they've missed hitting a little white ball into a hole from three feet, it makes you laugh.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

He wanted me to learn to stand on my own feet, and to make it impossible for me to thank him.