Quotes About Shoemakers

#1. Although some Jews "traveled by donkey," the Jews of Spain, for the most part, walked out of their country. These refugees were the "scholars, the sons and daughters of families who had served their monarchs . . . shoemakers, tanners, butchers, the old, the pregnant, [and] the young."6

Gloria Golden

#2. We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#3. Truth is for tailors and shoemakers. I, on the contrary, have always held that the Lord has a penchant for masquerades.

Isak Dinesen

#4. Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays 'em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera
or war or fiction.

Sinclair Lewis

#5. I came to realize that detectives and shoemakers see the world from beneath, both focusing more on the footsteps that have strayed away from their intended path than the path itself.

Pablo De Santis

#6. Coleridge, who when at Christ's Hospital was ambitious to be a shoemaker's apprentice, was right when he declared that shoemakers had given to the world a larger number of eminent men than any other handicraft.

George Smith

#7. Who is wurs shod, than the shoemakers wyfe,With shops full of shoes all hir lyfe?

John Heywood

#8. [Of the ether] it is no greater mystery at all events than the shoemakers' wax.

Lord Kelvin

#9. I come from a family with a long tradition in shoemaking, and I still live in a region famous for its shoemakers. It is getting harder and harder to find skilled workers. There are no professional training institutes, so we have to train our own employees. And an apprenticeship takes three years.

Diego Della Valle

#10. Millions of people are provided with their thoughts as with their clothes; authors, printers, booksellers, and newsmen stand, in relation to their minds, simply as shoemakers and tailors stand to their bodies.

George Augustus Henry Sala

#11. This veridic nose arrives everywhere a quarter of an hour before its master. Ten shoemakers, good round fat ones too, go and sit down to work under it out of the rain.

Cyrano De Bergerac

#12. It would be unjust, and moreover Utopian, for Shakespeare to direct the shoemakers' union. But it would be equally disastrous forthe shoemakers' union to ignore Shakespeare.

Albert Camus

#13. The world has need of dreamers as well as shoemakers.

Mary Oliver

#14. We are not for making shoes, so the shoemakers can have jobs, but so we can wear the shoes.

Janusz Korwin-Mikke

#15. We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It's just beginning. When I think of the possibilities, it makes me smile.

Barry White

#16. Dear Skeezie, Today I ran after a boy as he was trying to get away. I tackled him and we both landed in the mud. Do you think I appeared desperate?-Joe Bunch

James Howe

#17. I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#18. Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.

James Anthony Froude

#19. When you feel nothing, God is teaching you to live by faith.

Rick Warren

#20. For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands.

David R. Brower

#21. I have decided that I want animation to be taken seriously; that is the goal of my life. I believe that animation is a very important medium to tell stories, not just for kids but for adults.

Signe Baumane

#22. It would be folly to assume that an Indian Rockefeller would be better than an American Rockefeller.

Mark Kurlansky