Bound Feet Quotes

#1. And one of the interesting things about bound feet is that they never age.

Lisa See

#2. And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age.

Lisa See

#3. My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.

Wendi Deng Murdoch

#4. With living creatures / one must begin very early / to dwarf their growth : / the bound feet, / the crippled brain, / the hair curlers, / the hands you / love to touch.

Marge Piercy

#5. You know i'm going to marry you, right? I'm not fucking around. You're it for me.

Kahlen Aymes

#6. I think you'll find that one would be self-defeating." Jace said lightly shoving his feet into his boots. "We are bound, he and I. Cut him and I bleed.

Cassandra Clare

#7. In a litigation-happy society, clear agreements often prevent small disagreements from becoming big ones.

Harvey MacKay

#8. It was when I entered the military preparatory school and put on its uniform, that a feeling of strength came to me, as if I had become master of my own destiny.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

#9. The feet bound by leather souls feel not the humbleness of the sod. They carry the person without knowing the terrain below upon which they frequent trod.

Timothy W. Tron

#10. A Jedi can't get so caught up in matters of galactic importance that it interferes with his concern for individual people.

Timothy Zahn

#11. My grandmother's feet had been bound when she was two years old. Her mother ... first wound a piece of white cloth about twenty feet long round her feet, bending all the toes except the big toe inward and under the sole. Then she placed a large stone on top to crush the arch.

Jung Chang

#12. Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?

Patrick Henry

#13. Blythe was Viktor's in. He'd arranged a casual meeting and swept her off her feet. He was good with women. He knew exactly how to read them and what they wanted and needed. He was good at providing.

Christine Feehan

#14. I wish I could avoid the people who have threatened me. My favorite threat is that I will be thrown in the River Miljacka, which is at most knee-deep, with my feet bound in cement.

Aleksandar Hemon

#15. Rude cross lay flat upon the barren earth and on it was bound a man - half-naked, wild of aspect with his corded limbs, glaring eyes and shock of tangled hair. His executioners were Roman soldiers, and with heavy hammers they prepared to pin the victim's hands and feet to the wood with iron spikes.

H.P. Lovecraft

#16. Extermination must be put on a scientific basis if it is ever to be carried out humanely and apologetically as well as thoroughly.

George Bernard Shaw

#17. To think confidently, act confidently ... Act the way you want to feel.

David J. Schwartz

#18. Think of Zen, of the Void, of Good and Evil and you are bound hand and foot. Think only and entirely and completely of what you are doing at the moment and you are free as a bird.

Reginald Horace Blyth

#19. These people came into the world and left it bound to their soil, proliferating on their own dung-hills with slow deliberation like the uncomplicated soul of trees which scatter their seed about their feet, with little conception of any larger world beyond the dun rocks among which they vegetated.

Emile Zola

#20. Nathan," I said as loud as I could, but there was nothing to my voice. His blue eyes lit with tears. He shook his head. His eyes drifted from my face to my bound hands and feet. He grumbled something and turned back to me. "I'm going to break this damn thing, okay? Don't move.

C.L.Stone

#21. Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.

Charles Dickens

#22. The power of the witch is in her hair. The ones who killed her knew this. They cut off her long tresses, tied them into devil's shoelaces, and bound her hands and feet.

A.A. Attanasio

#23. A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence; I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence.

Idries Shah

#24. Did you think that your feet had been bound
By what gravity brings to the ground?
Did you feel you were tricked
By the future you picked?
Well, come on down

Peter Gabriel

#25. ...there is beauty that hits the eye like a bolt of lightning, that burns and sears and blinds. It is more disaster than pleasure. But yours, yours is a beauty that lulls one into comfort, into not protecting one's eyes from the light, then one night you realise that the moon, too, has its beauty.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#26. Men bound hand and foot in the endless chain of cause & effect cannot free each other.

Ramakrishna

#27. ACT21.11 And when he was come unto us, he took Paul's girdle, and bound his own hands and feet, and said, Thus saith the Holy Ghost, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle, and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.

Anonymous

#28. Don't keep looking back all the time, you're bound to get depressed. And all right, you can't do your job as well as you used to. But it's the same for all of us, see? We've all got to put our feet up at some point ... you've got to keep looking forward.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#29. He lied. I lied. Any love that starts out under a lie is bound to kill you. I just didn't want to die on my feet.

Karina Halle

#30. Her hands and feet were bound so tight it buried in her skin so far it was not visible

Bernie Haynerk

Stuart Francis

#31. Perhaps women were once so dangerous they had to have their feet bound.

Maxine Hong Kingston

#32. At the age of three my grand aunt proclaimed her independence by categorically refusing to have her feet bound, resolutely tearing off the bandages as fast as they were applied.

Adeline Yen Mah

#33. We Christians are bound hands and feet, sitting down in the pews instead of going out to explore the earth for the Son of God, king of kings and the Lord of Lords

Sunday Adelaja

#34. I think president after president has always stood behind Israel. We always will. They're our ally there. And we have to do whatever we can help them to protect their citizens.

Dutch Ruppersberger

#35. How joyously the young sea-mew
Lay dreaming on the waters blue,
Whereon our little bark had thrown
A little shade, the only one;
But shadows ever man pursue.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#36. SONG You bound strong sandals on my feet, You gave me bread and wine, And sent me under sun and stars, For all the world was mine. Oh, take the sandals off my feet, You know not what you do, For all my world is in your arms, My sun and stars are you.

Sara Teasdale