Feet

Famous quotes containing the word feet:

“I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language–religion–government–blood–identity in these makes men of one country.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)

“The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels. How worn and dusty, then, must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“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)