Tread Quotes

215 quotes by 182 authors

Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky. — Arna Bontemps
All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion. — Rita Mae Brown
Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean, and still man's obligations to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to… — Henry Ward Beecher
I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor. — Martin Van Buren
And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: "Give me a light that I may tread safely into the… — Minnie Louise Haskins
There is no well defined boundary line between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he… — O. Henry
Tread softly, for you tread on my dreams — William Butler Yeats
The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried, still keeps amid the prowlings of its adversity the bold, free, panther-tread with which it… — Hector Hugh Munro
A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart plays. She does… — Henry David Thoreau
Nothing impresses the mind with a deeper feeling of loneliness than to tread the silent and deserted scene of former throng and pageant. — Washington Irving
Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction. — Abraham Lincoln
Odd arrangements and funny solutions are the proof of evolution - paths that a sensible God would never tread but that a natural process, constrained… — Stephen Jay Gould
We cannot conceive how the Foetus is form'd in the Womb, nor as much as how a Plant springs from the Earth we tread on… — Joseph Glanvill
Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall… — Alexander Pope
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance,… — William James
When you resolve to become pious, the devil in your nature cries out at you, "Tread not those paths, O confused one; distress and poverty… — Rumi
The very spot where grew the bread that formed my bones, I see. How strange, old field, on thee to tread, and feel I'm part… — Abraham Lincoln
Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. — Alexander Pope
Your soul must hold fast to Him, you must follow after Him in your thoughts, you must tread His ways by faith, not in outward… — Ambrose

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