“ On the 27th we came to the Cascade Rapids. The first or Little Cascade has about two feet fall, the second or Grand Cascade, a mile farther, is about a six foot sheer drop. ”
- Ernest Thompson Seton- Copy
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“ In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column: In the pentameter aye falling in melody back. ”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Copy
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“ A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles. ”
- Edward Abbey- Copy
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“ A monarchy is a merchantman, which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock and go to the bottom, whilst a republic is a raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always in water. ”
- Fisher Ames- Copy
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“ Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still? ”
- Henry George- Copy
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“ From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away. ”
- Raymond Chandler- Copy
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“ Well, I guess the sexual abuse by Mel Phillips in a sense, he had a fetish for feet. He used to play with my feet and other kids' feet, and that was his thing. ”
- Tom Cole- Copy
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“ My feet ain't got nothing to do with my nickname, but when folks get it in their heads that a feller's got big feet, soon the feet start looking big. ”
- Satchel Paige- Copy
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“ But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
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“ Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores. ”
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald- Copy
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“ How many joys are crushed under foot because people look up at the sky and disregard what is at their feet? ”
- Catharina Elisabetha Goethe- Copy
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“ I don't look to jump over seven-foot bars; I look around for one-foot bars that I can step over. ”
- Warren Buffett- Copy
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“ Walk in balance with one foot in your spiritual understanding and one foot in your physical world of accomplishment. ”
- Lynn V. Andrews- Copy
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“ Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you would be perfectly comfortable. ”
- Bobby Bragan- Copy
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“ Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet. ”
- Carl Lewis- Copy
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“ The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ We've begun to long for the pitter-patter of little feet - so we bought a dog. Well, it's cheaper, and you get more feet. ”
- Rita Rudner- Copy
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“ No individual should find the foot of a behemoth on his neck for no reason at all, without the ability to lift that foot off. ”
- Dan M. Burt- Copy
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“ It is the specialist's task to talk about means, about centimeters. An artist's task is to talk about the goal, about kilometers, thousands of kilometers. The organizing role of art consists of infecting the reader, of arousing him with pathos or irony — the cathode and anode in literature… ”
- Yevgeny Zamyatin- Copy
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“ Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of conception. The world, you realize, is enormous in a way that only you and a small community of fellow hikers know… ”
- Bill Bryson- Copy
- 735
“ I first saw President Reagan as a foot, highly polished brown cordovan wagging merrily on a hassock. I spied it through the door. It was a beautiful foot, sleek. Such casual elegance and clean lines! But not a big foot, not formidable, maybe a little …frail… ”
- Peggy Noonan- Copy
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“ I like feet. I definitely have a fetish. I love to see a man's bare foot, but its got to be taken care of. If they're not well manicured, you've got to wonder what the rest of him is like. I don't want to get in bed with somebody and feel his gnarly feet. ”
- Brooke Burke- Copy
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“ When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet. ”
- Stanislaw J. Lec- Copy
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