Walked Quotes
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Generations to come, it may well be, will scarce believe that such a man as this one ever in flesh and blood walked upon this Earth.
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More Walked Quotes
In Africa a thing is true at first light and a lie by noon and you have no more respect for it than for the lovely, perfect wood-fringed lake you see across the sun-baked salt plain. You have walked across that plain in the morning and you know that no such lake is there. But now it is there absolutely true, beautiful and believable.
ernest hemingway— Ch. 10 (True at First Light (1999))
I said: "A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces". In other words: a tiger does not stand in the forest and say: "I am a tiger". When you pass where the tiger has walked before, you see the skeleton of the duiker, you know that some tigritude has been emanated there.
wole soyinka— Janheinz Jahn (trans. Oliver Coburn and Ursula Lehrburger), A History of Neo-African Literature (1968, pp. 265-6).
— Explaining, in Berlin in 1964, a criticism of the concept of négritude he had made at a conference in Kampala in 1962.
Now I know many of you today walked in with numbers already swimming in your heads: 360, 16x9, 1080, 8.2 GHz. Well, we'd like to add one more number to the mix. And that number is two.
reggie fils-aime— Source: E³ 2005 Press Event
— Reference to the big numbers in hardware power and specifications that Microsoft and Sony had mentioned about their upcoming video game consoles
— '2' refers to Nintendo having sold two billion games since the NES
The idea (for the painting ‘Room in New York’, 1932, ed.) had been in my mind a long time before I painted it. It was suggested by glimpses of lighted interiors seen as I walked along city streets at night, probably near the district where I live (Washington Square, New York, fh) although it’s no particular street or house, but is really a synthesis of many impressions.
Edward Hopper— 'Such a Life'’, in Life 102, August 1935, p. 48
How would your life be different if … You walked away from gossip and verbal defamation? Let today be the day … You speak only the good you know of other people and encourage others to do the same.
steve maraboli— p. 109 (Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010))
One of the sayings of Diogenes was that most men were within a finger’s breadth of being mad; for if a man walked with his middle finger pointing out, folks would think him mad, but not so if it were his forefinger.
diogenes laërtius— Diogenes, 6.
I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous Boy, The sleepless Soul that perished in his pride; Of Him who walked in glory and in joy Following his plough, along the mountain-side: By our own spirits are we deified: We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.
william wordsworth— Stanza 7. (Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey (1798))
She walked down the aisle with all eyes on her and she glowed Someone chose her above all other women they had known I can only wonder what it must be like to be so perfect in a lover's eyes, the only one they see Well, it’s never been me, the chosen one It’s never been me If ever I see a chosen one I feel ugly
happy rhodes— "Chosen One" - YouTube video
As discontinuity marched into the world of phenomena through one door, causality walked out through another.
james jeans— In Physics and Philosophy (1942)
One night as I walked in the desert the mountains rode on my shoulders and the sky became my heart , and the earth - my own body, I explored. Every object began to wink at me, and Mira wisely calculated thinking, My charms must be at their height now would be a good time to rush into his arms, maybe He won't drop me so quick.
— Mira Bai, Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West
Just then, with a wink and a sly normal lurch, The owl very gravely got down from his perch, walked round, and regarded his fault-finding critic (Who thought he was stuffed) with a glance analytic.
james thomas fields— The Owl-Critic, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
But the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him.
— 1902 Just So Stories,'The Cat That Walked By Himself'.
'Tisn't beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just It. Some women'll stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street.
— 1904 Traffics and Discoveries,'Mrs Bathhurst'.
"But he has nothing on at all," said a little child at last. "Good heavens! listen to the voice of an innocent child," said the father, and one whispered to the other what the child had said. "But he has nothing on at all," cried at last the whole people. That made a deep impression upon the emperor, for it seemed to him that they were right; but he thought to himself, "Now I must bear up to the end." And the chamberlains walked with still greater dignity, as if they carried the train which did not exist.
hans christian andersen— The Emperor's New Clothes
Rick walked away right at the height. People look at other artists like Simply Red and say they were big, but he out-sold them two to one.
rick astley— Pete Waterman
Looked as if she had walked straight out of the ark.
sydney smith— Volume I, ch. 7.
Looked as if she had walked straight out of the ark.
sydney smith— Volume I, page 157.
Don't judge a man until you have walked a mile in his boots.
— "Do not pass judgment on somebody until you have been in the same situation, undergone the same experiences, or tried the same thing."
— Martin H. Manser (2007). The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs. Infobase Publishing. p. 62. Retrieved on 16 August 2013.
It was only when you walked away I saw you had the perfect ass. Forgive me for not falling in love with your face or your conversation.
leonard cohen— The Energy of Slaves (1972)
And Jesus was a sailor When he walked upon the water And he spent a long time watching From his lonely wooden tower And when he knew for certain Only drowning men could see him He said "All men will be sailors then Until the sea shall free them" But he himself was broken Long before the sky would open Forsaken, almost human He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone
leonard cohen— "Suzanne"
When he finished packing, he walked out on to the third-floor porch of the barracks brushing the dust from his hands, a very neat and deceptively slim young man in the summer khakis that were still early morning fresh.
james jones— First line. "Jones packs a hell of a lot into that first line. He tells you it's summer, he tells you it's morning, he tells you you're on an Army post with a soldier who's obviously leaving for someplace, and he gives you a thumbnail description of his hero. That's a good opening line." ~ Ed McBain (Evan Hunter) in Killer's Payoff (1958)
The true way is along a rope that is not spanned high in the air, but only just above the ground. It seems intended more to cause stumbling than to be walked upon.
Franz Kafka— 1
I walked in my greatcoat Down through the days of the leaves. No before after, yes after before We were shining our light into the days of blooming wonder In the eternal presence, in the presence of the flame.
van morrison— A Sense of Wonder
But when the sun in all his state, illumed the eastern skies, she passed through glory's morning gate, and walked in Paradise.
james aldrich— James Aldrich, A Death Bed. (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations)
When the world was young and men were weak, and the fiends of the night walked free, I strove with Set by fire and steel and the juice of the upas-tree;
— Robert E. Howard. The Phoenix on the Sword. Chapter IV
Christ of His gentleness Thirsting and hungering, walked in the wilderness; Soft words of grace He spoke Unto lost desert-folk That listened wondering.
robert graves— "In the Wilderness," lines 1-6, from Over the Brazier (1916), Part I: Poems Written Mostly at Charterhouse 1910-1914
