Underfoot Quotes

44 quotes by 43 authors

Autumn has come to northeast Montana. The vapor of oneâ€™s breath, the clarity of the stars, the smell of wood smoke, the stones underfoot that… — Larry Watson
No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience… — J. Carter Brown
There is a hill beside the silver Thames, Shady with birch and beech and odorous pine; And brilliant underfoot with thousand gems, Steeply the thickets… — Robert Bridges
The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. — C.S. Lewis
The world today is sick to its thin blood for lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for water welling from the earth,… — Henry Beston
Look underfoot. You are always nearer to the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and the difficult is… — John Burroughs
Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to… — Barbara Kingsolver
Dawn came and matters were worse for it. Because now, emerging from the darkness, I could see, what before I had only felt, the great… — Yann Martel
I imagine that the goddess of Love has come down from Olympus to visit a mortal. So as not to die of cold in this… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Sisters annoy, interfere, criticize. Indulge in monumental sulks, in huffs, in snide remarks. Borrow. Break. Monopolize the bathroom. Are always underfoot. But if catastrophe should… — Pam Brown
Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatusâ€”the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the… — Simone Weil
Durnik needs a tower somewhere in the Vale," Belgarath was saying. "I don't see why, father," Polgara replied. "All of Aldur's disciples have towers, Pol.… — David Eddings
Why are we worn out? Why do we, who start out so passionate, brave, noble, believing, become totally bankrupt by the age of thirty or… — Anton Chekhov
I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable greyness, with nothing underfoot, with… — Joseph Conrad
In the Kamigata area, they have a sort of tiered lunchbox they use for a single day when flower viewing. Upon returning, they throw them… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Sometimes he could almost forget that it was there, the way you forget about the sky or the earth underfoot, but there were other times… — George R. R. Martin
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel… — Robert Louis Stevenson
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot. — Horace Greeley
I have always wanted to become a saint. Unfortunately, when I have compared myself with the saints, I have always found that there is the… — Therese of Lisieux
We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot. — Saint Augustine

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