Underfoot Quotes
44 quotes by 43 authors
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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
— Saint Augustine
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To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to protect liberty, to…
— Robert Byrd
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Unless a man gives himself entirely to the Cross, in a spirit of humility and self-abasement; unless he casts himself down to be trampled underfoot…
— Mark the Evangelist
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Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed. Faith must trample underfoot all reason, sense, and understanding, and whatever it sees must be put out of…
— Martin Luther
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Hatred is the ballast of the rock which lies upon our necks and underfoot.
— Maya Angelou
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The physical domain of the country had its counterpart in me. The trails I made led outward into the hills and swamps, but they led…
— John Haines
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The intense perfumes of the wild herbs as we trod them underfoot made us feel almost drunk.
— Jacqueline du Pre
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I am talking about societies drained of their essence, cultures trampled underfoot, institutions undermined, lands confiscated, religions smashed, magnificent artistic creations destroyed, extraordinary possibilities wiped…
— Aime Cesaire
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If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its…
— Abdolkarim Soroush
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Those who have abandoned themselves to God always lead mysterious lives and receive from him exceptional and miraculous gifts by means of the most ordinary,…
— Jean-Pierre de Caussade
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Terrorism [is] a biological consequence of the multinationals, just as a day of fever is the reasonable price of an effective vaccine . . .…
— Umberto Eco
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The entire party and country should hurl into the fire and break the neck of anyone who dared trample underfoot the sacred edict of the…
— Enver Hoxha
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It was very depressing to realize that, when looking around for regimes that have systematically corrupted science within the past century or so, three stood…
— John Grant
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Genies rarely have nightmares, for the same reason that elephants don't usually worry about being trampled underfoot. With the possible exception of bottles, there's nothing…
— Tom Holt
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We trample the blood of the Son of God underfoot if we think we are forgiven because we are sorry for our sins.
— Oswald Chambers
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We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Shivaji was the greatest Hindu king that India had produced within the last thousand years; one who was the very incarnation of lord Siva, about…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and the old buzzard won't be hanging around, underfoot,…
— Maxine
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The impulses of my heart are the voice of Nature, which is never mistaken. The institutions that stand in my way are man-made and are…
— Frederic Bastiat
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God, we thank you for this earth, our homes; for the wide sky and the blessed sun, for the salt sea and the running water,…
— Walter Rauschenbusch
Who Wrote These Underfoot Quotes
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