Toes Quotes

“I was mistaken
when I said you
live in my heart.
How absurd I was
when you live in my
fingertips so that everything
I touch is you. How foolish
I was when you live in my toes
so that everywhere I go there's you.
How senseless of me to say
you live in my heart
when you breathe in my lungs,
walk on my mind, and
drink in my mouth. I came to
pen another poem for you,
but even every unwritten poem
is you.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“If someone wants to suck your toes, those toes should be worth sucking.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood

“Beautiful toes are an addition to a woman’s appearance.”
― Ellen J. Barrier

“Run your purpose on the toes of your feet before people can type your success stories with the fingers of their hands.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Early retirement, Dalton. Teach yourself to type with your toes and you
can start writing your memoirs.”
― Mark Allen Smith, The Inquisitor

“Scratch your flesh raw between your toes, but you won't find the answer.”
― Franz Kafka, The Complete Stories

“If you add your hot passion to the cold attitude of another person, it becomes lukewarm. Don’t stand on the toes of dwarfs; stand on the shoulders of giants!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords

“The fakirs always throng the sea-shore
To find meaning in the chaos
And then they too become melancholy
Feeling nothing but their naked toes.”
― Avijeet Das

“Our mailman was a dance teacher at night & I would watch him sometimes to see if he would deliver mail differently than the others. I expected to see him leap over bushes with his toes pointing like arrows, but all he ever did was walk.”
― Brian Andreas, Still Mostly True: Collected Stories & Drawings

“Under your feet, the trapdoor to heaven
opens its mouth, its teeth
grazing your toes.”
― Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

“Leaders don’t step on toes of dwarfs. They mount shoulders of giants.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder

“I wonder if there has been a book written on toes—the bottom parts of a body are just as important as the top parts. Each chapter would focus on one of the ten toes and each would inspire singular, existential commentary: the potential of our toes as leaders, the solidity of our little instruments, the dangers of relating size and value. It would be called The Toe Manifesto and people would be interested in reading it because, after all, it is the toe that goes forward first and foremost, and the toe that helps to tell us if our bodies are hot or cold—in other words, the toe experiences far more than we give it credit for.”
― Meia Geddes, Love Letters to the World

“Most shoes are shaped as if feet were made for shoes.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“A beautiful woman’s ugliness is often hidden in her heart … or by her shoes.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“What is a sensitive person?” said the Cracker to the Roman Candle.
“A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes,” answered the Roman Candle in a low whisper; and the Cracker nearly exploded with laughter.”
― Oscar Wilde, Oscar Wilde Stories for Children

“To walk barefoot is sacred.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“Ballet shoes... I cannot play with them like they're toys.
But when the music is playing they get deep on my toes.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, The DAO (Dancing As One) Workbook Illustrated

“Piss me off and count your toes because what's commin, AIN'T GOOD, AIN'T FUCKING GOOD!”
― Deyth Banger

“He taught me to run high on my toes. I will always remember his words: run proud & remember you are alive.”
― Brian Andreas, Still Mostly True: Collected Stories & Drawings

“A single black ant sped across the floor beyond our naked toes, and I wondered why I felt so oppositional. His expression of unflappable faith had touched a profound place, the deep wellspring of my purpose—my future dream I cradled like a soft and formative pearl.”
― Aspen Matis, Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir

“If you want to be a leader, don't stand on the toes of dwarfs. Mount the shoulders of giants and you will see further.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder

“To roam those gold, sandy beaches,
And to feel crystal through my toes,
How I feel about my sweet Barbados,
Nobody knows”
― Charmaine J. Forde

“Follow your toes if you want to go in the right direction.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Toes are very contagious amongst feet.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“We put our best feet forward and crushed each other's toes.”
― Karen Elizabeth Gordon, The Transitive Vampire: A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager and the Doomed

“The pair of them were both sans socks so beneath their footwear they were matching and going toe-to-toe.”
― J.S. Mason, Whisky Hernandez

“He looked down at baby Jesus’ feet and could see the etched marks of previously grazed fingers. Everyone loved to adore the feet of statues. And Andrei could see why—baby Jesus had adorable toes.

Andrei turned back at the older Jesus on the cross, hanging from the ceiling, and looked at his feet that were nailed. There was something about feet that never aged. Even with a little hair, feet seemed the body part of human beings that lived unblemished and pure. Their evolution had not gone far from what they were before, growing merely in size and always coveting that soft layer of perfect, glistening skin wrapped over veins. They were a part of the body men could trust—a piece of flesh that stayed childish and weird. The heel was not only the closest contact one had with the earth, but one of the most untouched areas of the body. Few people cup their hands to hold another’s heel. The heel was always away, underneath the fabric of a sock, on the bottom of one’s anatomy, deep down and far from immediate openings for conventional contact such as the hands, arms, and lips. A deep impression remained in Andrei: the image of man’s feet was quite angelic.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, A Happy Ghost