Parenting Quote by Emily Curtis

“My father's boots went ahead. His boots were to me as unique and familiar, as much an index to himself, as his face was.…

— Alice Munro

“He felt more human with his boots on. A man can face the world with something on his feet.”

— Robert Harris

“That always amazed him: how centuries of bare palms and shuffling feet could wear down solid steel.”

— Hugh Howey

“I am pressed so hard against the earth by the weight of reality that some days I wonder how I am still able to…

— Katja Millay

“God help the lad, and me too,” he thought, as he lifted the board. “We’re like enough to find life a tough job —…

— George Eliot

“Even the ground beneath his feet feels unsatisfying to his boots.”

— Erin Morgenstern

“There’s man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet.”

— Samuel Beckett

“I have been distracted from my duty as a father to some extent, but there is no greater exercise to a man’s talents than…

— Conn Iggulden

“Our life is a walk in the night, we know not how great the distance to the dawn that awaits us. And the path…

— Rachel Kadish

“Sometimes I stand in the grass barefooted and let the Earth heal me.”

— Christophe Barton

“I had a nightmare about being Trapped in an elevator with a self-made man-- He was born with a silver bootstrap in his mouth;…

— Matt Cook

“You do not do, you do not do Any more, black shoe In which I have lived like a foot For thirty years, poor…

— Sylvia Plath