Barefoot Water

Famous quotes containing the words barefoot and/or water:

    “Give me a mystery—just a plain and simple one—a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little, barefoot mystery: give me a mystery—just one!”
    —Yevgeny Yevtushenko (b. 1933)

    “Lord, crack their teeth! Lord, crush these lions’ jaws!
    So let them sink as water in the sand;
    When deadly bow their aiming fury draws,
    Shiver the shaft ere past the shooter’s hand.
    So make them melt as the dishoused snail”
    —Bible: Hebrew Psalm LVIII (Paraphrased by the Countess of Pembroke)