Best feet & gains Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Every gain made by individuals or societies is almost instantly taken for granted. The luminous ceiling toward which we raise our longing eyes becomes, when we have climbed to the next floor, a stretch of disregarded linoleum beneath our feet.”

Made Eye Next Individual Wealth Taken Feet Gains Raises Longing Granted Ceilings Luminous Taken For Granted Disregarded

Book:Adonis and the alphabet: and other essays

Source: Adonis and the alphabet: and other essays

“Our loss put six feet under ground Is measured by the magnolia's root; Our gain's the intellectual sound Of death's feet round a weedy tomb.”

Sound Loss Feet Six Intellectual Gains Roots Rounds Tombs Magnolias Six Feet Under

Book:Collected Poems, 1919-1976

Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976

“The theory which I would offer, is simply, that as the land with the attached reefs subsides very gradually from the action of subterranean causes, the coral-building polypi soon raise again their solid masses to the level of the water: but not so with the land; each inch lost is irreclaimably gone; as the whole gradually sinks, the water gains foot by foot on the shore, till the last and highest peak is finally submerged.”

Source: Journal of Researches Into the Geology and Natural History of the Varoius Countries Visited by H.M.S. Beagle, Under the Command of Captain Fitzroy from 1832 to 1836 by Charles Darwin

“The press box at Wrigley Field in Chicago is an extended narrow shed, two rows deep, that is precariously bolted to the iron rafters just underneath the park's second deck. To gain access, one must climb a steeply angled ramp and clamber down a little starboard companionway, guarded at its foot by a uniformed minion and then proceed giddily along a catwalk that hangs directly above the tiered, circling rows of seats and spectators behind home plate.”

Littles Two Home Behinds Feet Fields Gains Presses Boxes Access Parks Seats Climbs Iron Chicago Plates Shed Spectators Deck Guarded Ramp Minions Catwalk Rafters Home Plate Wrigley Field

Book:Season Ticket

Source: Season Ticket

Feet Quotes

Related topics

Feet Quotes