Feet Quote by Jonathan Swift

The sciences are found, like Hercules's oxen, by tracing them backward; and old sciences are unravelled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.

— Jonathan Swift

Every old sock meets an old shoe

— Kate Bush

All sciences are connected; they lend each other material aid as parts of one great whole, each doing its own work, not for itself…

— Roger Bacon

My feet are like gnarled old tree branches.

— Dennis Rodman

“The profane sciences of which the modern world is so proud are really and truly only the degenerate ‘residues’ of the ancient traditional sciences.”

— René Guénon

When we walk upon Mother Earth, we always plant our feet carefully because we know the faces of our future generations are looking up…

— Oren Lyons

Unshined shoes are the end of civilization.

— Diana Vreeland

And one of the interesting things about bound feet is that they never age.

— Lisa See

History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.

— Voltaire

The men of old breathed clear down to their heels.

— Zhuangzi

When great individuals move so marvelously along the straight and narrow path, it is unseemly of us to call attention to the fact that…

— Neal A. Maxwell

For most of human history, we could only watch, like bystanders, the beautiful dance of Nature. But today, we are on the cusp of…

— Michio Kaku