Famous quotes containing the word shoes:
“The thing to remember about fathers is, theyre men.
A girl has to keep it in mind:
They are dragon-seekers, bent on improbable rescues.
Scratch any father, you find
Someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors,
Believing change is a threat
Like your first shoes with heels on, like your first bicycle
It took such months to get.”
—Phyllis McGinley (19051978)
“Englishwomens shoes look as if they had been made by someone who had often heard shoes described, but had never seen any.”
—Margaret Halsey (b. 1910)
“I told him that Goldsmith had said,... As I take my shoes from the shoemaker, and my coat from the taylor, so I take my religion from the priest. I regretted this loose way of talking. JOHNSON. Sir, he knows nothing; he has made up his mind about nothing.”
—Samuel Johnson (17091784)