"Are my boots old? Is my coat torn? / Am I no longer young, and still not half-perfect?"
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"Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots"
"Pull your boots up by the bootstrap and know that everything is temporary. All good moments are temporary and all bad moments are temporary. Nothing lasts forever."
"Hope, politeness, the blowing of a nose, the squeak of a boot, all produce "boum."
"Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!"
"Shoes and clothing damage our ability to survive naked in the wilderness."
"I didn't just want to be Frank's daughter who sang Boots. I take my music very seriously and studied very hard. It's not a joke to me."
"Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military."
"I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace."
"In thigh-high yellow leather boots Plump Saphonisba strides. Too bad that, just to hide her calves, Two calves have lost their hides."
"The kids are interested in the music of them. They're not interested in mop-tops and Beatle boots and crazy suits. It's all down to the music now - that's what they hear, and that's what they love."
"There will be boots on the ground if there's to be any hope of success in the strategy."
"Boot the grime of this world in the crotch dear."
"Are you ready boots? Start Walking.....never look back. # artforfreedom # revolutionoflove"
"My closet was full, yet I was always focused on the sweater I didn't have, or on the next pair of boots. I wasn't allowing myself to take in what I had. I could never experience what "enough" was."
"One should always have one's boots on and be ready to leave."
"I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contained between my hat and my boots."
"However you must have sensed a lurking 'but' skulking beneath my happy, blithe, and chipper exterior. A minuscule vexation, like the teeniest lump of raw liver sticking to the inside of my boot."
"I prefer a good pair of boots to Shakespeare."
"Even now, I'm very superstitious, in silly ways. I always put my left boot on first. Or on set, I always tie my bow tie from right to left."