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"My mom was beautiful; she was supposed to be the original Jane in the original Tarzan movie. They asked her to put her foot in the water and there was an alligator in there, and she wouldn't put her foot in the water."
"A gentleman can withstand hardships; it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet."
"Einstein was once asked how many feet are in a mile. Einstein's reply was "I don't know, why should I fill my brain with facts I can find in two minutes in any standard reference book?"
"I sleep with my feet on moss carpets, my branches in the cotton of the clouds."
"You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. ... Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance."
"I'm not only my spirit buy my body, and who can decide how much I, my individual self, am conditioned by the accident of my body? Would Byron have been Byron but for his club foot, or Dostoyevsky Dostoyevsky without his epilepsy?"
"The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet."
"It was lonely on the hill, and cold. And all you could do was keep going. You could scream, cry, and stamp your feet, but apart from making you feel warmer, it wouldn’t do any good. You could say it was unfair, and that was true, but the universe didn’t care because it didn’t know what “fair” meant. That was the big problem about being a witch. It was up to you. It was always up to you."
"Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved."
"Knowledge is the eye which must direct the foot of obedience."
"Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete proving nature's laws wrong it learned 2 walk without having feet"
"Tyranny, like fog in the well known poem, often creeps in silently 'on little cat feet.'"
"Anything that brings spiritual, mental, or physical weakness, touch it not with the toes of your feet."
"I want to be where your bare foot walks, because maybe before you step, you'll look at the ground. I want that blessing"
"I'm six foot two. If I need security around me, there's a problem."
"Forget aging. If you're six feet above ground, it's a good day."
"Maybe the paths that you each shall tread are already laid before your feet though you do not see them"
"The number one thing that has to be done, [black men] has to be retaught, be given - he has to be reeducated and made to know that he's a man, like anyone else, and then he can stand on his own two feet, like others have done."
"Oppressed people are frequendy very oppressive when first liberated. And why wouldn't they be? They know best two positions. Somebody's foot on their neck or their foot on somebody's neck."
"We are born for cooperation, as are the feet, the hands, the eyelids, and the upper and lower jaws."
