Once you step foot on the Supreme Court steps, you lose your first-amendment rights. I don’t see how, as an American citizen, you can’t go to the Supreme Court steps and speak your mind or speak your piece peacefully.
The breadfruit is a superb tree, about 60 feet high, with deep green, shining leaves, a foot broad, sharply and symmetrically cut, worthy, from their exceeding beauty of form, to take the place of the acanthus in architectural ornament, and throwing their pale green fruit into delicate contrast.
I’m a southpaw and a counter-puncher. I tend to box on the back foot and catch my opponents when they come forward.
The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
I always back myself as a finisher, but I always practise it as well. Every type of finish: left foot, right foot, headers, penalties, free kicks.
David Alaba has a very good left foot. He’s scored some good goals and free kicks.
I put my foot in my mouth every time I’m interviewed.
We saw that on the Turkish side there was a sincere wish for peace. But before I could even put my foot back on Greek soil people called me a traitor.
I don’t think I could be a foot soldier. I don’t know if I could take orders too good. I’m a little lazy.
When I use my vocal cords, it kind of feels like what it feels like when you put your shoes on the wrong foot.
People thought we were crazy for starting a record company. They really thought I was shooting myself in the foot.
My first port of call was Los Angeles. That’s where I laid my first foot on America.
I just like to have one foot in Montana and one foot out.
I love the percussion. It’s a right brain, left brain thing. There are different beats, but cooperating together. It’s your whole body doing it, you’re doing the snare drum and the high top with your hands and the bass drum with your foot. You’re this whole motion machine.
When I left WWE, I had surgery on my foot. I had drop foot, where my foot was totally paralyzed. I had a tendon transfer and got nine screws in my foot.
I remember I was playing basketball, and an entire arena was, like, chanting ‘Big Foot.’ It was a high school game, but… you’re constantly being reminded you’re bigger; you don’t look like everybody. There were days where I would be upset, and, like, I’d cry about it.
I change my socks often, because I had bad bouts of athlete’s foot fungus infections as a kid. I may be able to change socks less frequently and not get the fungus. But, I’d rather not run the test to determine just how infrequently I could change socks. I don’t feel superstitious about it.
My heroes in real life are definitely my mom for being true to herself, for having a foot in both worlds, for being so very polite – Canadian and also such a traditional Greek woman. I would sum it up this way: the life lesson she would say is be polite while you’re breaking the rules.
One of the biggest challenges you face as a female manager is getting a foot in the door to be interviewed fairly.
It took putting one foot in front of the other every single day to get through it to the point where I made it back on the team and won a gold medal in 2008.
I thought that I had a really healthy relationship with food, and I went home to my parents’ house for a week because I cut my foot, and was recovering. I just ate loads, ate family meals, went along with group activities. And I realized how unhealthy my relationship actually is with food.
People have said some really good things about my performance, and that’s what I’m happy about, what I’m excited about. I was able to go out there, and like I said, I put my best foot forward.
Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
In this league, you can’t take your foot off the gas pedal. You think you have something won, but teams are too good, too talented.
My next book’s title is going to be, ‘I Have One Foot in the Grave and Another on a Banana Peel.’
Jesus was born a Jew, and he died a Jew. It never occurred to him to establish a new religion. He never crossed himself: he had no reason to. He never set one foot in a church. He went to synagogue.
A good boxer, in striking the round blow, instead of loosening body and arm, gathers himself into a heap of muscularity and begins his blow where all blows ought to begin, from the solidarity of the right foot.
The last decade has been a little rough, so I’m hoping to start this one on the right foot.
It was like putting your foot into a pond and knowing that I wanted to dive into this. It wasn’t even just acting. It was this medium, film. I had to explore it.
Every time I smacked my right foot to the ground I couldn’t absorb shock. So no matter what, I’ve thought about this a lot, it doesn’t matter what my life in football would have looked like, it was so traumatic for me that I just couldn’t play the game I loved. And I didn’t know how to handle that as a teenager.
There’s an awful lot about our criminal justice system that is dysfunctional. Everyone who sets foot in a criminal courtroom will see myriad ways the system is dysfunctional.
If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.
It used to be the case that for an Irishman to come to the U.S. involved a perilous journey on a ship. It involved singing lots of songs before you left saying goodbye, and once you were in the U.S., it involved singing lots of songs about how you were never going to set foot in Ireland again.
I think this can be a championship team. But we do have to take it one game at a time. You can’t look at the end of the road before you get the next foot in.
I feel like I have one foot in New York, one foot in London and one foot in India. But it’s important to me to invest time with family.
For 47 years, the U.K. has been forced to follow rules set by Brussels bureaucrats, many of whom have never set a foot on British soil.
Talk about a foot injury, you can’t release how you want to, you can’t come out of your breaks how you want to.
When I was a small boy, I was bullied more than most, mainly because I was a foot shorter than everyone else.
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‘This is my country.’
I live with one foot in the sand and one in the snow. There’s European egocentricity, and the African opposite. I normally say that my African experience has made me a better European.
Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.
What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?
I can’t set one foot out of my house or anywhere in the world without security.
As a dancer, you really try to stay true to whatever the choreographer/artistic director is giving you. So, now the shoe is on the other foot and I have to trust everyone else – I have to trust the dancer. As I was trusted as a dancer, I trust my dancers.
In periods when everything was going really well I may have taken my foot off the pedal and got comfortable where I was at, not carrying on to the next level.
You hope all good athletes run on the balls of their feet. You don’t want them coming down heel first. The perfect style is the foot to come down with a slight supination and on a tilt to the outside.
You can’t believe everything you read. I am only six foot three, by the way.
You’ve got to be all-in on this sport; you can’t be one foot out the door.
I made my statement… I had my foot in the ’90s.
Now on ‘Bachelor Pad’ it is true colors – no best foot forward anymore, everybody is really themselves.
We know that we can’t make contact with the baseball with our front foot not firmly planted in the ground. So, in our cage drills we work on being on time and not rushing this action.
If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
What I do in long jump and track and field, it definitely correlates with what I do as a receiver. With being fast and being explosive and putting my foot down. It’s the same mechanics that I use in football and track.
If you feel good about what you put on your face – or body – that’s really putting your best foot forward.
Coming from New Zealand and Australia is like a tough pre-school for Hollywood. And having been on ‘Neighbours,’ even though the agents I met with hadn’t seen it, they knew it’s where Russell Crowe and Guy Pearce had come from. It was a foot in the door.
The day I set foot in Hyderabad, I saw an animal being hit by a vehicle. The city did not have a shelter for the bleeding animal, and I brought it home. In less than a month, our house was home to all kinds of animals – a buffalo with a broken hip, a blind mongoose, goats, dogs, cats.
George Zimmerman is a foot soldier in a rapidly privatizing country. He is a new centurion of 21st-century America. Law enforcement is tied down by the strictures of, well, the law. There is only ‘so much they can do’ to take care of the ‘problem.’
