Footsteps Quotes

“When your footsteps and thoughts carry you down the same path your heart and soul are directing you, you will know without a doubt that you are headed in the right direction.”
― Molly Friedenfeld

“Disbelief held me down inside my footsteps, making my body heavy but my heart wild.”
― Markus Zusak, Getting the Girl

“A lost road will remember your footsteps because someday you may want to return, tracing the way.”
― Munia Khan

“Let our love chase all clouds away
Hold my hand and feel the day
Your footsteps guide my steps all along
Beneath my skin your veins belong.”
― Munia Khan

“What kind of footsteps will you leave for those who follow you?”
― Kathy Bee, Footsteps My Journey: The true story about the beloved poem Footprints In The Sand.

“How do you know when it's me?"
"Your footsteps are apologetic?"
"What does that mean?"
She turned, smiling wiping her hands on her long, black skirt. "It doesn't mean anything," she said. "Everybody else here just does what they want to do and doesn't think twice about it. But you're never sure.”
― Daniel Wallace, The Kings and Queens of Roam

“Two footsteps do not make a path.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Kabu Kabu

“Their story begins on ground level, with footsteps. They are myriad, but do not compose a series. They cannot be counted because each unit has a qualitative character: a style of tactile apprehension and kinesthetic appropriation. Their swarming mass is an innumerable collection of singularities. Their intertwined paths give their shape to spaces. They weave places together. In that respect, pedestrian movements form one of these 'real systems whose existence in fact makes up the city.' They are not localized; it is rather they that spatialize. They are no more inserted within a container than those Chinese character speakers sketch out on their hands with their fingertips.”
― Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life

“It seems thus possible to give a preliminary definition of walking as a space of enunciation.”
― Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life

“The trace left behind is substituted for the practice. It exhibits the (voracious) property that the geographical system has of being able to transform action into legibility, but in doing so it causes a way of being in the world to be forgotten.”
― Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life

“Crossing the limit is not my style
My footsteps meander less than a mile
I travel the world perhaps in a minute
Yet a dream, to me, is never infinite!”
― Munia Khan

“it was such a curious corner in its acoustical properties, such a peculiar Ear of a place, that as Mr. Loory stood at the open window, looking for the father and daughter whose steps he heard, he fancied they would never approach. Not only would the echoes die away, as thought the steps had gone; but, echoes of other steps that never came would be heard in their stead, and would die away for good when they seemed close at hand. However, father and daughter did at last appear, and Miss Pross was ready at the street door to receive them.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“The wife said, “That’s what it said in the pamphlet: follow in the footsteps of Jesus—but it didn’t say how many steps.”
― Joshua Cohen, Moving Kings

“May the Lord direct your life’s journey.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“May you walk on sacred-path.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“My mother once told me as a child that you can tell who is coming by the mere sound of their footsteps. I remember looking at her incredulously, my short curls bouncing in agreement with my dissent. Yet, upon her departure, I heard in her footsteps the essence of Mom. Ever since, I would know who was approaching down the hall of our home without prior visual identification.

And the footsteps I heard at the entrance of the bookstore carried the vague echo of a memory that promised dread.”
― Gina Marinello-Sweeney, The Rose and the Sword

“You may follow the footsteps
The whole day will pass
With you going around in circles
Yet not reaching anywhere at last!”
― Avijeet Das

“Be careful your footsteps do not stumble by the stumbling stone.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Words are like the wind. They will blow away your own footsteps but they also will blow away the footsteps and thoughts of others. Use them wisely and with care.”
― Brent M, Jones

“I hear them,
The sound of your feet
As they pace
The creeks on the wooden floors that speak of you,”
― J. AnnRey, Lost at 3am

“In icy footsteps do actors tread in moonlight's chill,
In crystalline depth,
The players set,
To entertain and do no ill.
© Stewart Stafford, 2020. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“The Divine Being has ordered our footsteps upon the face of the earth.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Walk on sandpaper and you will see why man leaves rough footprints in his wake through life.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Just because your footsteps have stopped, doesn't mean that you have stopped moving.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“She knew what was coming. She could feel the scent of love in the air. She could hear its footsteps. But was she ready for it?”
― Neelam Saxena Chandra, Can I have this chance

“My faith is what lights my footsteps from within.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“The atavistic conundrums of history's footsteps may trespass a while, but they do not linger in the cavernous labyrinth of my mind's diptych.”
― Avijeet Das

“And he said...

...your footsteps will lead you to a cliff that only a god will know how to get down.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“winter is the footsteps we leave behind in the snow; footsteps that show where we’ve been and where we’re going.”
― shreya sophie k., poetic insomnia

“In his book Footsteps (1985), Richard Holmes compared the biographer's act to 'a kind of pursuit, a tracking of the physical trail of someone's path through the past'. What Holmes realized in the course of his own pursuits was that the footstepping biographer never actually reached his subject; only encountered at best the second-order suggestions of their earlier presence: glimpses of afterglow, retinal ghosts, psychic gossamer. 'You would never catch them,' cautioned Holmes, 'no, you would never quite catch them...”
― Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot