Treading

Famous quotes containing the word treading:

    “Will you walk a little faster?” said a whiting to a snail,
    “There’s a porpoise close behind us, and he’s treading on my
    tail.
    Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

    You shall not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.
    Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 25:4.

    There is, however, this consolation to the most way-worn traveler, upon the dustiest road, that the path his feet describe is so perfectly symbolical of human life,—now climbing the hills, now descending into the vales. From the summits he beholds the heavens and the horizon, from the vales he looks up to the heights again. He is treading his old lessons still, and though he may be very weary and travel-worn, it is yet sincere experience.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)