Foothold

Famous quotes containing the word foothold:

    Women should not weaken their cause by impracticable demands. Make no claim which could not be won in a reasonable time. Take one step at a time, get a good foothold in it and advance carefully.
    Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)

    In no part of the Seventeenth Century could the French be said to have had a foothold in Canada; they held only by the fur of the wild animals which they were exterminating.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)