Best feet & stones Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In Fleet Street, in Fleet Street, the People are so fleet, They barely touch the cobble-stones with their nimble feet!”

People Feet Streets Stones Nimble Fleet Street

Author:Eleanor Farjeon

“Leave not a foot of verse, a foot of stone, A Page, a Grave, that they can call their own; But spread, my sons, your glory thin or thick, On passive paper, or on solid brick.”

Feet Son Paper Pages Glory Stones Spread Graves My Son Thick Verses Passive Bricks

Author:Alexander Pope

“Beginnings start without shade,Thinner than minnows.The live grass whirls with the sun,Feet run over the simple stones,There's time enough.Behold, in the lout's eye, love.”

Enough Eye Running Simple Sun Feet Stones Grass Shade Minnows

Book:The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

Source: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

“Experience may be hard but we claim its gifts because they are real, even though our feet bleed on its stones.”

May Real Hard Feet Stones Experience Claims Adversity

Author:Mary Parker Follett

“Out of the debris of a statue thoroughly shattered a new art work is born: a naked foot unforgettably resting on a stone; a candid hand; a bent knee which contains all the speed of the foot race; a torso which has no face to prevent us from loving it.”

Art Hands Faces Born Race Feet Stones Speed Naked Knees Bent Statues Shattered Candid Debris Torso

Author:Stephanie Crayencour

“Where I lived - winter and hard earth.I sat in my cold stone roomchoosing tough words, granite, flint,to break the ice. My broken heart -I tried that, but it skimmed,flat, over the frozen lake.She came from a long, long way,but I saw her at last, walking,my daughter, my girl, across the fields,In bare feet, bringing all spring's flowersto her mother's house. I swearthe air softened and warmed as she moved,the blue sky smiling, none too soon,with the small shy mouth of a new moon.”

“The stairway is not a thing of gleaming strands a radiant evanescence for angels' feet that only glance in their tread, and need not touch the stone.”

Needs Feet Angel Stones Glances Stairs Radiant Strands Stairways Evanescence

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“... if we take the universe of 'fitting,' countless coats 'fit' backs, and countless boots 'fit' feet, on which they are not practically fitted; countless stones 'fit' gaps in walls into which no one seeks to fit them actually. In the same way countless opinions 'fit' realities, and countless truths are valid, tho no thinker ever thinks them.”

Ifs Thinking Way Reality Truth Universe Opinion Feet Wall Fit Stones Gaps Thinker Boots Coats Fitting

Book:The Meaning of Truth: Human Understanding

Source: The Meaning of Truth: Human Understanding

“My grandmother's feet had been bound when she was two years old. Her mother...first wound a piece of white cloth about twenty feet long round her feet, bending all the toes except the big toe inward and under the sole. Then she placed a large stone on top to crush the arch.”

Years Firsts Long Two Bigs Mother White Pieces Feet Stones Twenties Bounds Rounds China Wounds Crush Grandmother Two Years Sole Inward Toes My Grandmother Arches Bending Two Year Olds

Author:Jung Chang

“Leave a cavity behind the [wall] facings, and on the inside build walls two feet thick, made of red dimension stone or burnt brick or lava in courses, and then bind them to the fronts by means of iron clamps and lead. The beds and builds, all settling equally and bonded at the joints, will not let the work bulge out, nor allow the fall of the face walls which have been tightly fastened together.”

Mean Has Beens Made Two Together Faces Fall Courses Behinds Feet Fronts Wall Bed Red Stones Settling Dimensions Iron Thick Bricks Joints Lava

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“In the beginning, there was no retirement. There were no old people. In the Stone Age, everyone was fully employed until age 20, by which time nearly everyone was dead, usually of unnatural causes. Any early man who lived long enough to develop crow's-feet was either worshiped or eaten as a sign of respect.”

People Men Long Enough Age Causes Feet Stones Aging Retirement Employed Old People Unnatural Crow Stone Age

Author:Mary-Lou Weisman

“'Yea and I beheld Sisyphus in strong torment, grasping a monstrous stone with both his hands. He was pressing thereat with hands and feet, and trying to roll the stone upward toward the brow of the hill. But oft as he was about to hurl it over the top, the weight would drive him back, so once again to the plain rolled the stone, the shameless thing. And he once more kept heaving and straining, and the sweat the while was pouring down his limbs, and the dust rose upwards from his head.”

Trying Hands Strong Sadness Feet Sad Stones Weight Rose Dust Hills Sweat Torment Limbs Monstrous Brows Pouring Grasping Over The Top Shameless Sisyphus Hands And Feet

Book:The Odyssey of Homer: Several Versions

Source: The Odyssey of Homer: Several Versions

“In Prison Wearily, drearily, Half the day long, Flap the great banners High over the stone; Strangely and eerily Sounds the wind's song, Bending the banner-poles. While, all alone, Watching the loophole's spark, Lie I, with life all dark, Feet tethered, hands fettered Fast to the stone, The grim walls, square lettered With prisoned men's groan. Still strain the banner-poles Through the wind's song, Westward the banner rolls Over my wrong.”

Men Life Long Stills Hands Lying Song Sound Dark Half Feet Wind Wall Stones Prison Sparks Squares Strain Grim All Alone Banner Bending Loopholes

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“Let firm, well hammer'd soles protect thy feet Through freezing snows, and rains, and soaking sleet; Should the big last extend the shoe too wide, Each stone will wrench the unwary step aside; The sudden turn may stretch the swelling vein, The cracking joint unhinge, or ankle sprain; And when too short the modish shoes are worn, You'll judge the seasons by your shooting corn.”

Source: Poetry and prose of John Gay

“There must be no fear, no begging, but demanding - demanding the Highest. The true devotees of the Mother are as hard, as adamant and as fearless as lions. They are not in the least upset if the whole universe suddenly crumbles into dust at their feet. Make Her listen to you. None of that cringing to Mother! Remember, She is all-powerful; She can make heroes out of stones.”

Ifs Hard Whole Remember Mother Universe Powerful Feet Hero Highest Stones Dust Fearless Upset Lions No Fear Begging Devotee Adamant

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“Ho said, 'I do not grieve because my feet have been cut off. I grieve because a precious jewel is dubbed a mere stone, and a man of integrity is called a deceiver. This is why I weep.'”

Men Has Beens Said Cutting Feet Integrity Stones Mere Grieving Jewels Deceiver Man Of Integrity Precious Jewels

Book:The Ender Quintet

Source: The Ender Quintet

“Publication is rather like pushing the boat out; then the boat/book turns into a melting ice floe and you have to conjure a second boat which again turns into a melting floe under your feet. All the stepping stones that you conjure disappear under the water behind you.”

Book Turns Water Behinds Feet Stones Disappear Boat Ice Pushing Melting Publication Behind You Stepping Stones Melting Ice

Author:Seamus Heaney

“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.”

Men Wells I Can Hands Would Be Feet Stones Brutes

Book:Thoughts

Source: Thoughts

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