Shoemaker Quotes

#1. One cannot see callers, answer the telephone, go to luncheons or dinners, visit the dentist or shoemaker, address charitable organizations in or from a bed; therefore a bed, in my experience, is simply bristling with ideas.

Kate Douglas Wiggin

#2. I'm not going anywhere with you, you little shoemaker, I said (Rachel to Trent)

Kim Harrison

#3. The Shoemaker Book the Second - the Golden Thread I. Five Years Later II. A Sight

Charles Dickens

#4. To Harmodius, descended from the ancient Harmodius, when he reviled Iphicrates [a shoemaker's son] for his mean birth, "My nobility," said he, "begins in me, but yours ends in you.

Plutarch

#5. Successful people have control over the time in their life. A shoemaker who owns his own shop gets up one morning and says, 'I'm not opening,' That's a successful guy.

Rod Steiger

#6. Their chief occupations are feasting, fighting, and making love, and playing the most beautiful music. They have only one industrious person amongst them, the lepra-caun - the shoemaker.

W.B.Yeats

#7. My grandfather was a shoemaker who worked in a shoe factory.

Stephen Pagliuca

#8. To him, she was one of the few girls who was nice to him, the stodgy son of a poor alcoholic shoemaker with such little status that he seemed unlikely to even get one wife, let alone the three or more that designated a man of standing.

Colleen Chen

#9. If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.

Albert Einstein

#10. Sometimes I wished I could become a shoemaker too.

Saul Bellow

#11. I do not think that shoemaker a good workman that makes a great shoe for a little foot.

Plutarch

#12. What a group we were. A pregnant girl in love, a kindly shoemaker, an orphan boy, a blind girl, and a giantess who complained that everyone was in her way when she herself took up the most room. And me, a lonely girl who missed her family and begged for a second chance.

Ruta Sepetys

#13. The greatest shoemaker in England for many, many decades; he used to be the royal shoe-maker for the Queen Mother. This is where I learnt my trade.

Manolo Blahnik

#14. For me, being a writer is not an altered state. It's very ponderous, and very - it's like being a shoemaker.

Anne Lamott

#15. 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

#16. Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.

Evelyn Waugh

#17. I always say I hope to God I die in a town with a good tailor, a good shoemaker, and perhaps someone who's interested in a little quelque chose d'autre.

Diana Vreeland

#18. ... he noticed that the free thinkers, the doctrinaires of the bourgeoisie, people who claimed every liberty that they might stifle the opinions of others, were greedy and shameless puritans whom, in education, he esteemed inferior to the corner shoemaker.

Joris-Karl Huysmans

#19. If the least thing goes wrong with a saddle, or clothes, or a boot, you cannot find a soul to make repairs, and the other day a cobbler answered us, 'Yes, that's right, I'm a shoemaker, and sometimes I work, but I'm not in the mood right now.

Louis-Philippe

#20. Preparation V. The Wine-shop VI. The Shoemaker Book the Second - the Golden Thread I. Five

Charles Dickens

#21. Two hundred years ago an old Dutch voyager likened its shape to that of a shoemaker's last. And in this same last or shoe, that old woman of the nursery tale with the swarming brood, might very comfortably be lodged, she and all her progeny.

Herman Melville

#22. Pointing to the mutual envy of businessmen and politicians who are often out of their field in each other's area,, the author quotes the wisdom, A wise shoemaker sticks to his trade and maintains a mouthful of nails.

Jimmy Breslin

#23. Every family in Konya has at least one shoemaker in their midst, and I am one of those families.

Ahmet Davutoglu

#24. Return those shoes to the shoemaker Return this hand to my father This pillow to the pillowmaker Those slippers to the shop. That wainscot to the carpenter, But my mind my tranquil and eternal Mind Return it to whom?

Jack Kerouac

#25. A certain shoemaker one of the chief towns of Silesia, in the year 1591, September 20, on a Friday betimes in the morning, in the further part of his house, where there was adjoining a little garden, cut his own throat with his shoemaker's knife.

Raymond T. McNally

#26. That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?

Arthur Miller

#27. When we see a man with bad shoes, we say it is no wonder, if he is a shoemaker.

Michel De Montaigne

#28. Then pointing to Edwin's shoes, he said: "Those look skilfully crafted. Did you make them yourself?" "Master Baldwin made them for me. The most skilled shoemaker in the village,

Kazuo Ishiguro

#29. The Mail III. The Night Shadows IV. The Preparation V. The Wine-shop VI. The Shoemaker Book the Second - the

Charles Dickens

#30. Education makes a man a more intelligent shoemaker, if that be his occupation, but not by teaching him how to make shoes; it does so by the mental exercise it gives, and the habits it impresses.

John Stuart Mill

#31. I want," said Defarge, who had not removed his gaze from the shoemaker, "to let in a little more light here. You can bear a little more?

Charles Dickens

#32. The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#33. The first time I saw Cricket, I loved her. Little did I know that skinny, goofy girl would one day grow up to be a great dragon slayer. I would have pegged her for a shoemaker.

Ash Gray

#34. The Christian shoemaker does his duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making good shoes, because God is interested in good craftsmanship.

Martin Luther

#35. I went to the shoemaker to collect his wastepaper. One of them asked me if my book was communistic. I replied that it was realistic. He cautioned me that it was not wise to write of reality.

Carolina Maria De Jesus

#36. LAST, n. A shoemaker's implement, named by a frowning Providence as opportunity to the maker of puns.

Ambrose Bierce

#37. I am a communist and my painting is a communist painting. But if I were a shoemaker, Royalist or Communist or anything else, I would not necessarily hammer my shoes in any special way to show my politics.

Pablo Picasso

#38. Don't pray to escape trouble. Don't pray to be comfortable in your emotions. Pray to do the will of God in every situation. Nothing else is worth praying for.

Sam Shoemaker

#39. Write what you know, to create the world you do not.

N.A. Shoemaker

#40. My dog is half pit-bull, half poodle. Not much of a watchdog, but a vicious gossip!

Craig Shoemaker

#41. Borrowing a line from Jim Croce's "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown," Watts dubbed Ritter the Junkyard Dog - and, ever the literalist, gave him a dog collar and junk cart.

David Shoemaker

#42. The horse never knows I'm there until he needs me.

Bill Shoemaker

#43. Everybody has a problem, is a problem, or lives with a problem.

Sam Shoemaker

#44. Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things.

Sam Shoemaker

#45. What seemed to make Benoit and Guerrero great was the fact that they weren't given an easy path to stardom. They were both hired by WCW when, during the Monday Night Wars, WCW expanded its flagship show to three hours and needed talent to fill the time.

David Shoemaker

#46. Happiness is the sense that one matters. Happiness is an abiding enthusiasm. Happiness is single-mindedness. Happiness is whole-heartedness. Happiness is a by-product. Happiness is faith.

Sam Shoemaker

#47. I may not be the best at what I do. But what I do, I do the best that I can.

Tamara Shoemaker

#48. Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.

Bill Shoemaker

#49. I have always believed that anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Bill Shoemaker

#50. The rise of statism in our time is the natural result of the longing of godless, unchurched people for some kind of protection. When we lose to God we turn to what looks like the next most powerful thing, which is the state. How bad a choice that is, let Germany and Russia in recent years testify.

Sam Shoemaker

#51. Most people are brought to faith in Christ not by argument for it but by exposure to it.

Sam Shoemaker

#52. As a face and a heel, Savage saw wrestling the way so many of us viewers did. He saw that every wrestler had an ulterior motive, that everyone was out for himself - that conspiracy theory was the only reasonable lens through which to perceive WWF reality.

David Shoemaker

#53. The test of a man's conversion is whether he has enough Christianity to get it to other people. If he hasn't, there is something wrong.

Sam Shoemaker

#54. There are one hundred and ninety nine ways to beat, but only one way to win; get there first.

Bill Shoemaker

#55. The surest mark of a Christian is not faith, or even love, but joy.

Sam Shoemaker

#56. Pound for pound, your show is the best of its kind. I'm always learning from your great content!

Craig Shoemaker

#57. We tend to find what we look for in other people.

Sam Shoemaker

#58. We make our own gods for our own purposes. And we love them, and that's the whole point.

David Shoemaker

#59. Is your Christianity ancient history
or current events?

Sam Shoemaker

#60. When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.

Bill Shoemaker

#61. What was emerging meanwhile in ECW was certainly revolutionary, even if the term is defined down within the context of play fighting.

David Shoemaker

#62. But just as much as it was a sport, it was a sideshow - a carny act that eventually made it to Broadway. So the next time you hear somebody say, "You know wrestling is fake, right?" you can tell him that yes, you know. That's exactly the point.

David Shoemaker

#63. If Jack Nicklaus can win the Masters at 46, I can win the Kentucky Derby at 54.

Bill Shoemaker