1,129 Quotes About Feet

  • Author Annie Dillard
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    I feel as though I stand at the foot of an infinitely high staircase, down which some exuberant spirit is flinging tennis ball after tennis ball, eternally, and the one thing I want in the world is a tennis ball.

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  • Author Brian Deming
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    She needed 14 feet even and she jumped 14-feet-1-inch. It's a great accomplishment and I'd like to see a few more kids qualify.

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  • Author Carlo DeBartolo
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    Sophie's a well-behaved, well-trained little puppy. She's so gentle and friendly; never wild or anything - she'll sit by your feet for hours. I've only known her a while, but she gets to you.

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  • Author Charles Darwin
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    The theory which I would offer, is simply, that as the land with the attached reefs subsides very gradually from the action of subterranean causes, the coral-building polypi soon raise again their solid masses to the level of the water: but not so with the land; each inch lost is irreclaimably gone; as the whole gradually sinks, the water gains foot by foot on the shore, till the last and highest peak is finally submerged.

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