Footsteps Quotes
277 quotes by 242 authors
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I was sent to a school because my father was already aware that his days were numbered, and he was anxious for me to acquire…
— Sigrid Undset
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Non-African missionaries, responding generously to the Lord's call with ardent apostolic zeal, came to share the joy of revelation. Following in their footsteps, Africans are…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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The enticing allure of Nashville is that there is always something new coming down the pike. Put this record on and you’ll hear footsteps.
— Tom T. Hall
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So that this nation may long endure, I urge you to follow in the hallowed footsteps of the great disobedience of history that freed exiles,…
— Charlton Heston
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Walking the streets on winter nights kept him warm, despite the cold nocturnal passions of uprising winds. His footsteps led between trade-marked houses, two up…
— Alan Sillitoe
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I looked upon a clock to find the truth. The hours were passing like ivory chess figures, striking piano notes, and the minutes raced on…
— Anais Nin
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A world to be born under your footsteps...
— Saint-John Perse
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God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm. Deep in unfathomable…
— William Cowper
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I am not surprised that they show no intention to follow in my footsteps, although if I had a second chance myself, I would certainly…
— Richard Ernst
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I see the mycelium as the Earth's natural Internet, a consciousness with which we might be able to communicate. Through cross-species interfacing, we may one…
— Paul Stamets
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There are no great fanfares for the truly great moments of your life. Just dripping taps and the sound of your own footsteps, walking from…
— Kathleen Tessaro
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Writing, painting, singing -- it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in its tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between death's footsteps sound…
— Ally Condie
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The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.
— Mary Catherine Bateson
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Philosophers and psychiatrists should explain why it is that we mathematicians are in the habit of systematically erasing our footsteps. Scientists have always looked askance…
— Gian-Carlo Rota
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Christianity is a religion which concerns us as we are here and now, creatures of body and soul. We do not "follow the footsteps of…
— Evelyn Underhill
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Let's say that life is this square of the sidewalk. We are born at this crack and we die at that crack. Now we find…
— Bill Watterson
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As not every instance of similitude can be considered as a proof of imitation, so not every imitation ought to be stigmatised as plagiarism. The…
— Samuel Johnson
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It must be a good thing to die conscious of having performed some real good, and to know that by this work one will live,…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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If I ever have a son, and if he wants to follow in my footsteps in Formula 1, my main responsibility will be to point…
— Jenson Button
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People substitute tradition for the living experience of the love of God. They talk and think as though walking with God was attained by walking…
— Francis Howgill
Who Wrote These Footsteps Quotes
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