Quotes on Feet

I just put my feet in the air and move them around.

Author: Fred Astaire

You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.

Author: Paul Auster

If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune.

Author: Count Basie

I'm saying: to be continued, until we meet again. Meanwhile, keep on listening and tapping your feet.

Author: Count Basie

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.

Author: Jeremy Bentham

Perhaps the most difficult thing is shooting scenes set 6,000 feet up in the mountains of Mexico.

Author: Bruce Beresford

The pigs stuck out their little feet and snored.

Author: Elizabeth Bishop

My shoes are special shoes for discerning feet.

Author: Manolo Blahnik

I had to go. A spirit in my feet said 'Go,' and I went.

Author: Mathew Brady

A spirit in my feet said go, and I went.

Author: Matthew Brady

The feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is the marvel to mortals revealed.

Author: Phillips Brooks

Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet.

Author: Pam Brown

But once we got them on its feet then they run themselves, unless there's corrections you have to make.

Author: Jerry Bruckheimer

That's what the Senate is about. It's the last bastion of minority rights, where a minority can be heard, where a minority can stand on its feet, one individual if necessary, and speak until he falls into the dust.

Author: Robert Byrd

In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath. I could not hear the rhythm of the march.

Author: Kate Chopin

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.

Author: Mary Clark

January brings the snow, makes our feet and fingers glow.

Author: Sara Coleridge

Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.

Author: Sidonie Colette

The summer of 1830 I... blasted the tunnel through the rock to take water from the dam above the falls for the mill... In 1831 we lowered the tunnel four feet, and built a new dam across the creek.

Author: Ezra Cornell

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

Author: Bob Crosby

I'm very close to suggesting that Mr. Pitt has now served as long as he can usefully do so. He seems to take his foot out of his mouth only for purposes of changing feet.

Author: John Dingell

The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.

Author: Isadora Duncan

You're 5 feet nothing, a hundred and nothing.

Author: Charles Dutton

You have to have your wits about you and think quickly on your feet.

Author: Michael East

No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.

Author: Quintus Ennius

I'm concerned about getting Iraq on its feet.

Author: Douglas Feith

By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as the dancer of his feet, or the boxer of his hands.

Author: Johann Fichte

The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet high, have all the characters of an aged cedar of Lebanon.

Author: Robert Fortune

If you feel you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.

Author: Robert Goheen

I am tired. My arm aches. My head boils. My feet are cold. But I am not aware of any weakness.

Author: Zane Grey

To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.

Author: Franz Grillparzer

Yeah, my parents help me keep my feet on the ground.

Author: Rupert Grint

I remember; I was 15 years old when Neil Armstrong put feet in the moon.

Author: Umberto Guidoni

I had some surgery on my feet, which has helped my back some.

Author: Merle Haggard

I never forget my old days and I never fly too high I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground!

Author: Natasha Henstridge

Ripley is married. And he's not lost. He has his feet on the ground.

Author: Patricia Highsmith

I like to keep my feet on the sidewalk.

Author: Joshua Homme

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

Author: Horace

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Author: Dolores Ibarruri

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

Author: Dolores Ibarruri

Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?

Author: Frida Kahlo

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

Author: Stephen King

Riding a motorcycle on today's highways, you have to ride in a very defensive manner. You have to be a good rider and you have to have both hands and both feet on the controls at all times.

Author: Evel Knievel

You were about five feet short of a ten feet jump?

Author: Johnny Knoxville

I advise keeping four feet on the floor and all hands on deck.

Author: Ann Landers

When I sing I don't feel like it's me. I feel I am fabulous, like I'm 10 feet tall. I am the greatest. I am the strongest. I am Samson. I'm whoever I want to be.

Author: Cyndi Lauper

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

Author: Stanislaw Lec

Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't get his pants on.

Author: Joe Lewis

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Author: Abraham Lincoln

The former measured six feet and an inch in his stockings, and, without a single pound of cumbrous flesh about him, weighed a hundred and eighty. The latter was an inch shorter than his rival, and ten pounds lighter; but he was much the most active of the two.

Author: Augustus Longstreet

A king should die on his feet.

Author: Louis Louis XVIII

It's an incredibly difficult thing to bring a giraffe down. They can kill a lion with a single blow from their feet.

Author: Joanna Lumley

In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet of water, ancient wooden piles are observed at the bottom sometimes worn down to the surface of the mud, sometimes projecting slightly above it.

Author: Charles Lyell

I'm not invited. I'm not on the A list, haven't been on it in 20 years and my feet have never trod its red fluffy carpets.

Author: Nick Mancuso

I used to have six left feet. Now I only have one and a half left feet.

Author: Jesse McCartney

I am six feet tall. I am not supposed to be afraid.

Author: Keith Miller

Once when I was standing at the base, they started rotating the set and a big, heavy wrench fell down from the 12 o'clock position of the set, and got buried in the ground a few feet from me. I could have been killed!

Author: Marvin Minsky

You're suspended sixty feet up in the air, you've been up there for three hours, and all the shot requires is that you have to sort of react to getting punched in the head.

Author: Alfred Molina

It's great to be able to have your feet in both worlds. I wouldn't want to be just stuck in one or the other.

Author: David Morse

In the 1950s in Columbia, South Carolina, it was considered OK for kids to play with weird things. We could go to the hardware store and buy 100 feet of dynamite fuse.

Author: Kary Mullis

We could receive a storm surge of three to five feet.

Author: Ray Nagin

I bow at His Feet constantly, and pray to Him, the Guru, the True Guru, has shown me the Way.

Author: Guru Nanak

For too long, Japan has been dragging its feet as it ignores the steps the U.S. has made to ensure a safe beef supply and shows a disregard for our prior trade pacts.

Author: Randy Neugebauer

As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.

Author: Jack Osbourne

My feet ain't got nothing to do with my nickname, but when folks get it in their heads that a feller's got big feet, soon the feet start looking big.

Author: Satchel Paige

The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.

Author: Thomas Paine

It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.

Author: Vanessa Paradis

What did I do in high school? I grew from 5 feet 4 inches to 6 feet 2 inches.

Author: Gregory Peck

Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.

Author: Plato

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

Author: Victoria Principal

What is attempted in these film is of course a synthesis. But it can be seen by someone who has his feet in both cultures. Someone who will bring to bear on the films involvement and detachment in equal measure.

Author: Satyajit Ray

You can compare me with Greta Garbo. I have big feet, too.

Author: Lee Remick

A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.

Author: Jules Renard

I started getting on my feet and clowning around, and they ended up putting me in a play when I was 12. And I was hooked.

Author: Tim Robbins

I'm really good with fighting with my feet.

Author: Eric Roberts

My feet are like gnarled old tree branches.

Author: Dennis Rodman

A man is like a cat; chase him and he will run - sit still and ignore him and he'll come purring at your feet.

Author: Helen Rowland

We've begun to long for the pitter-patter of little feet - so we bought a dog. Well, it's cheaper, and you get more feet.

Author: Rita Rudner

We just bought this house. It's too big. It's like 400,000 square feet, or something. We got an indoor lake and ski slope in the house! It's just too big.

Author: Adam Sandler

And it was out in the theaters in two weeks. This is not, 'We're going to develop twenty-five and maybe one's going to get made,' so the first three things I wrote got up on the screen and, good, bad or indifferent, I got to see them on their feet.

Author: John Sayles

I wanted to start with a very small role, to get my feet wet. I'm sure I'm not as good or as experienced as other actresses, but everybody has to start somewhere.

Author: Claudia Schiffer

Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. If makes it feel needed.

Author: Charles Schulz

There were some super-lean years, yeah. I'm six feet four. And I entered into this period all of a sudden when I was too big to play a kid and I was too young to play an adult. Like, I couldn't play the lawyer, but I couldn't play the high school kid anymore.

Author: Jason Segel

On the 27th we came to the Cascade Rapids. The first or Little Cascade has about two feet fall, the second or Grand Cascade, a mile farther, is about a six foot sheer drop.

Author: Ernest Seton

The first plane ride was in a homemade glider my buddy and I built. Unfortunately we didn't get more than four feet off the ground, because it crashed.

Author: Alan Shepard

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

Author: Will Smith

I wish my hair was thicker, and I wish my feet were prettier. My toes are really ugly. I wish my ears were smaller. And my nose could be smaller too.

Author: Britney Spears

Hilda and I slept alongside each other fully dressed, head to feet.

Author: Stanley Spencer

Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.

Author: John Steinbeck

When I came off the boat I was very proud of the thick calluses which had developed on my feet. But now, I am struggling to get into my favourite high heels which is a shame, as I have so many.

Author: Pamela Stephenson

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

Author: Michael Stipe

When you're a regular gal, you look in the rearview mirror, and in the bright daylight you see that line around your mouth, but when you're an actress and you see that line up on the big screen, it's, like, seven feet long.

Author: Sharon Stone

There can be no possible question that cold is felt much more keenly in the thin air of nineteen thousand feet than it is below.

Author: Hudson Stuck

Chad was in the right spot. He got a little aggressive with the third shot there. He probably didn't want that putt he had there for the par. And you don't want to put it back there where Casey and Sergio did because you have 20 feet of break there.

Author: Hal Sutton

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

Author: Jonathan Swift

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

Author: Henry Thoreau

Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?

Author: Lily Tomlin

I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.

Author: Calvin Trillin

The plateau of Mexico is 8,000 feet high, and that of Puebla 9,000 feet.

Author: Edward Tylor

Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone.

Author: Aubrey Vere

I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.

Author: Denis Waitley

I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.

Author: George Wallace

My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.

Author: Edith Wharton

I was all in gold sequins for Million Dollar Mermaid, 50 feet in the air.

Author: Esther Williams

As I was working I noticed that the way I designed the differential gearing actually created a spare drive that sat directly below the emperor's feet, or where they would be if he were to sit in the chariot.

Author: Kit Williams

Do I have to use my feet? Can I knock the window out with my head?

Author: Wendy Williams

I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes.

Author: Oprah Winfrey