Top 35 Barefoot Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Barefoot Quotes from famous people such as Steve Rushin, Emma Willis, KT Tunstall, Zola Budd, Carolyn Murphy, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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Humans had run barefoot for millennia, and some still preferred doing so in the modern Stone Age of the mid-20th century, when the handful of people running for exercise often wore whatever they happened to have on at the moment of inspiration.
Steve Rushin
To combat jet lag, when you get to your destination go straight to a park, take your shoes off and walk barefoot. It’s something to do with having your feet in contact with the earth – it’s supposed to be grounding.
Emma Willis
What was incredible about the Maldives was that the entire island we were on consisted of sand. There didn’t seem to be any dirt. You could walk around for hours barefoot with your white trousers skimming the ground, and they’d still be pristine white.
KT Tunstall
I no longer run barefoot.
Zola Budd
You see airbrushed images of me, but I know the person who’s walking barefoot, dodging dog poo in the yard.
Carolyn Murphy
I’m from Minnesota. I like to be barefoot, running through the woods.
Rachel Keller
I’m barefoot whenever I can be.
Shakira
Rapunzel is a bit more relatable than the other princesses, especially because she doesn’t even know that she’s a princess until the very end of the movie. I like to think of her as the bohemian Disney princess. She’s barefoot and living in a tower. She paints and reads… She’s a Renaissance woman.
Mandy Moore
When I hear the words ‘Women should be barefoot and pregnant and in the kitchen,’ I think, ‘What. A. Dream.’ There are no negative connotations to it.
Evangeline Lilly
The GOP will not be satisfied until women are barefoot, pregnant and back home by 5 o’clock P.M. to cook dinner.
Nina Turner
I grew up at a time in Singapore – the ’70s and ’80s – where it was still possible to go riding around the island barefoot. And I was one of these kids that was just climbing trees and running around the neighbourhood.
Kevin Kwan
I used to run barefoot in my village some time back. Now, I have a branded shoe with my name on it.
Hima Das
Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.
John Updike
I’m actually a barefoot girl.
Elle King
In my everyday life, I just wear jeans, t-shirts and trainers – if I can go barefoot, that’s even better. But for the events I have a stylist, and in two hours we have selected a whole outfit.
Penelope Cruz
Coming from a farming background, I saw nothing out of the ordinary in running barefoot, although it seemed to startle the rest of the athletics world. I have always enjoyed going barefoot and when I was growing up I seldom wore shoes, even when I went into town.
Zola Budd
I’ve lived in the Hamptons since 1978, when I first bought my store Barefoot Contessa.
Ina Garten
I shall begin my march for Camp tomorrow morning. It was not in my power to move until I could procure shoes for the troops almost barefoot.
Anthony Wayne
As a kid, my first friends were the local children and we used to climb trees and run barefoot, dodging the odd scorpion.
Clare Rewcastle Brown
You look at the Barefoot Contessa or Lydia Bastianich, and it’s just like watching your mother cooking.
Ruth Reichl
I’d play music on the street, especially in developing nations where a lot of kids couldn’t wear shoes. In order to relate with kids that would be following me barefoot, I would take off my shoes, and they would all laugh at me because I couldn’t go three steps without wincing.
Michael Franti
I’m either in heels or barefoot.
Christina Hendricks
I have lots of athletes in my family and they showed me how to waterski – slalom, barefoot – all that stuff.
Sophie Gregoire Trudeau
The Barefoot College is supposed to be a sparking off process. People are adopting it and owning it, which is really the story behind the college.
Bunker Roy
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
Jacob Bronowski
I run in a pair of New Balances with a thinner sole, but they’re nothing like those barefoot shoes that show all five toes. I have a bit of a phobia about those.
Ryan Reynolds
I love singing opera, but the world surrounding it is not me. I want to be barefoot. I want to be in control of my own career. I want to put on a show. In the opera world, you wait for people to call you until you get to a certain level. In the folk world, it’s a lot easier to have control from the beginning.
Rhiannon Giddens
It was like I lived in a little suburban neighborhood in the middle of New York City because I could run around barefoot or, you know, completely independently from a very young age in the safety of this building where I knew everybody and where I had friends on every floor, and I knew the bellmen in the lobby.
Gaby Hoffmann
Once I was walking with teammate Joy Fawcett in a hotel in Haiti. We were barefoot, and the lights went out to save electricity. Joy felt something crunch beneath her feet, and she felt the need to shine her flashlight on the floor. It was, I swear, a five-foot cockroach.
Julie Foudy
I lived an idyllic ‘Huckleberry Finn’ life in a tiny town. Climbing trees. Tagging after brothers. Happy. Barefoot on my pony. It was ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’-esque.
Sissy Spacek
I found them uncomfortable and after that I decided to continue running barefoot because I found it more comfortable. I felt more in touch with what was happening – I could actually feel the track.
Zola Budd
If I'm not barefoot, you'll probably find me with a pai

If I’m not barefoot, you’ll probably find me with a pair of New Balance on. And I’m not one of those hipster-jump-on-the-band-wagon-ironically-cool NB fans. I’ve been rocking those kicks since they were true nerd shoes. Since the ’80s, yo! Word.
Reid Scott
I don’t walk barefoot. When I see a girl barefoot in the street… I’m like, ‘Really?’ But obviously, I can’t judge someone for that first impression.
Juan Pablo Galavis
For somebody like me, who has trained barefoot in a small village in Odisha, I know training without proper facilities can be extremely difficult. Having experienced it all, I would like to give back to my community by creating a running academy for children.
Dutee Chand
You know you’re old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you’re barefoot.
Phyllis Diller