Bound Feet

Famous quotes containing the words bound and/or feet:

    “I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.”
    —Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

    “Our loss put six feet under ground
    Is measured by the magnolia’s root;
    Our gain’s the intellectual sound
    Of death’s feet round a weedy tomb.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)