Footpath Quotes

#1. Free from ivory-tower
the pencil twirls
across the footpath

Santosh Kalwar

#2. Taking the way that opens, even if it seems hardly more than a footpath, not infrequently leads to the highways of heart's desire, if not to fame and fortune.

Frances Parkinson Keyes

#3. There was a footpath leading across fields to New Southgate, and I used to go there alone to watch the sunset and contemplate suicide. I did not, however, commit suicide, because I wished to know more of mathematics.

Bertrand Russell

#4. A single pink poppy lay on the footpath, its roots still crusted with earth. I picked it up and it drooped forlornly in my hands.

Lili Wilkinson

#5. It's because his wife left him. That's why he's acting funny. She left him the other night. While she was putting her bags into the taxi he was outside on the footpath begging her to stay. On his knees! Why are men so embarrassing?
Bev

Louis Nowra

#6. On one part of the footpath where a thin trickle of water from a small spring kept it damp, I found ... a swarm of ... small, blue butterflies drinking the water. ... I only went that way on sunny days and each time the dense, blue swarm was there, and each time it was a holiday.

Hermann Hesse

#7. If life were a highway, I would still look for the footpath, for walking that, I would learn about us, enjoying the extra time to do so.

Tom Althouse

#8. I thought of walks in the English countryside, where people start shouting at you as soon as you stray from the footpath.

George Monbiot

#9. The footpath down to the well is healed.

Robert Frost

#10. Would I always feel so small that it hurt and that even the greatest outcry roaring from my throat was, in reality, just a whimper? Would my footsteps always stop so suddenly and sink into the footpath?

Markus Zusak

#11. Fiction, if done right, can bridge cultural divides. Stories can be a footpath for a reader to step into another land and view its indigenous practices and beliefs through a local lens, instead of a telescope.

Nadia Hashimi

#12. ...in its practical purpose the footpath of freedom is the only one on which it is possible to make use of reason in our conduct. Hence it is as impossible for the subtlest philosophy as for the commonest reasoning to argue freedom away.

Immanuel Kant

#13. Down the footpath the two went through the perfect morning, the love of God and all nature in their hearts.

Gene Stratton-Porter

#14. The pickup bumped heavily over the worn and stony footpath. The up-down motion made Cliff belch. He hit the break and came to a full stop in order to take a pull from the bottle. This was one time he couldn't drink while driving.

Chet Williamson

#15. Weaving in and out of traffic, she tooted the horn, mounted the footpath when needed and drove as fast as her Fiat would allow.

Toni Pike

#16. Resignation is what kills people. Once they've rejected resignation, humans gain the privilege of making humanity their footpath.

Kohta Hirano

#17. Maybe if you had focused a little more in school, you could have gotten some scholar..." "No!" Owen shouts, plugging his ears. "How dare you speak that word in my presence?" "What word?" Liam asks with a chuckle. He raises his voice purposefully. "Scholarships?

Loretta Lost

#18. The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them never pause, but pass and die.

George Eliot

#19. husband, Dave, my daughter, and I had moved out of Cen- ter City and into a house in Haverford that I refused to call a McMansion, even though that's exactly what it was, but I loved Ellie's pediatrician so much that 1'd never even tried to find a suburban replacement.

Jennifer Weiner

#20. At this stage they were killers. I mean this stage in our mutually culpable history. Who

Peter Heller

#21. Love is music, and sex is only the instrument ...

Isabel Allende

#22. So easy to take it for granted, but this is something no normal human was made to see. The world of magic has blessed me with wonders and it's only right to stop every now and then to appreciate it.

Darren Shan

#23. My mouth went instantly dry as I looked at him, his eyes unwavering on mine. My heart thudded in my chest and all I could think was delicious, delicious, delicious.

Katrina Abbott

#24. With me serving as the president, we filed a $3-million lawsuit against the league and its member clubs in an attempt to win increased pension benefits and a larger share Of television revenue.

Ted Lindsay

#25. we are all born educated, but we need education to be educated

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#26. I know it's trash: just another story made up to scare wicked females and correct unruly children. But it's all I have. I know I need something else. Something better. Like a story that shows how brazen women can take a good man down. I can hum to that.

Toni Morrison

#27. Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.

Bryant H. McGill

#28. Words; the powerful air that can change the mind, the body and the spirit in the twinkle of an eye! He who don't know words don't know life!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#29. It is not only that sin consists in doing evil, but in not doing the good that we know.

Henry Allen Ironside

#30. One doesn't necessarily have a mission.

Nicky Oppenheimer

#31. It was a little disappointing, really. As an inventor he could at least have had a hunchback assistant, or perhaps a metal one.

Kady Cross