Top 26 Footfall Quotes

#1. Define your mantras, your adages, and bear down repetitively
over and over and over!

David R. Wommack

#2. This time his voice comes from the left and I hear his footfall moving around my body as I obey. Suddenly I am all limbs, stretching out to please him. I am absurdly vulnerable and beyond aroused. I want him now.

Felicity Brandon

#3. For pilgrims walking...every footfall is doubled, landing at once on the actual road and also on the path of faith.

Robert Macfarlane

#4. Every thought sounds like a footfall, Till a thought like a boot kicks down the wall.

Laura Riding

#5. The pain is necessary to find the power of being.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. Oh, hasten not this loving act, Rapture where self and not-self meet: My life has been the awaiting you, Your footfall was my own heart's beat.

Paul Valery

#7. I weave the shoes of Sorrow:
Soundless shall be the footfall light
In all men's ears of Sorrow,
Sudden and light.

William Butler Yeats

#8. There was that sound again
snap, then a footfall. She tried to whirl around as a dark form
Dear God
sprang with a splash from the darkness
grabbed her from behind, shoved her under the water.

Kaye George

#9. If atheists are deaf to the word of God, then theists are blind to the ways of man.

Michael Palin

#10. You got to start by doing little things if your quest is to take over the world.

J. B. Smoove

#11. To be in circumstances that are working upon us, that from time to time place us in front of great natural Things - that is all we need.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#12. So softly you hear it now, Mary O'Meara, but soon it comes joyful and clear.
And soon in the shadow and dew of your hilltop a star-guided footfall rings near.
My only beloved, I'm here.

Poul Anderson

#13. The ability and intelligence is remarkable ... Prince was able to walk the length of the furrow, between the growing potatoes, and when he was done you might never guess that he passed that way, so sure and careful was every footfall.

Paul Heiney

#14. The rustling of the silk is discontinued, Dust drifts over the courtyard, There is not sound of footfall, and the leaves Scurry into heaps and lie still, And she the rejoicer of the heart is beneath them: A wet leaf that clings to the threshold.

Ezra Pound

#15. Write to your newspaper. Call your Member of Congress. Email President Obama. Speak out for a cleaner, more stable future for all of us.

Frances Beinecke

#16. Pray to Him anyway you like, He can even hear the footfall of an ant.

Ramakrishna

#17. To wake, and sleep, and know that one is loved; to hear, as I hear now, the whisper of a footfall; to feel the touch of hands; these things, above all else, are to be desired. I count myself fortunate, in that, for a little while, I have known them.

Keith Roberts

#18. Alexander of Whitby taught that the universe is like a tapestry only parts of which are visible to us at a time. After we are dead, we will see the whole and then it will be clear to us how the different parts relate to each other.

Susanna Clarke

#19. Hard wooden stamp followed by the softer shoed footfall - and

Sara Pennypacker

#20. Every footfall of my boots echoes and ricochets louder and louder, the excruciating stroll I take induces her heartbeat into pecking so hard and erratic, my dick starts hurting with an anticipatory throb.

Poppet

#21. Empty, I echo to the least footfall

Sylvia Plath

#22. Would a harsh word ever fall from lips which now breathed only love? Would the step whose lightest footfall now made her heart leap, ever sound in her ear like a death knell?

Fanny Fern

#23. My footfall rang in a universe that was not theirs.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#24. Poetry is a sleep-maker for that which sits up late in us listening for the footfall of the future on to-day's doorstep.

Laura Riding

#25. What can I do to improve my personal appearance?" "Start by bathing," her father said.

William Goldman

#26. She spent the rest of the way home despising New York: anonymity, in virtuous terror; and the squeaking drainpipe, all-night light, ceaseless footfall, subway corridor, numbered door (3C).
('Master Misery')

Truman Capote

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