Footsteps

Footsteps are the individual acts of taking a step, moving one foot and the next when walking; the term also refers to the sounds of footfalls, and to the the mark or impression left by the foot. By extension, it refers to the indications or waypoints of a course or direction taken.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

 * Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 286.


 * The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them never pause, but pass and die.
 * George Eliot, The Spanish Gypsy (1868), Book III.


 * There scatter'd oft the earliest of ye Year By Hands unseen are showers of Vi'lets found; The Redbreast loves to build and warble there, And little Footsteps lightly print the ground.
 * Thomas Gray, manuscript of Elegy in a Country Churchyard; corrections made by Gray are "year" for "Spring", "showers" for "frequent", "redbreast" for "robin".


 * Vestigia terrent Omnia te adversum spectantia, nulla retrorsum.
 * The footsteps are terrifying, all coming towards you and none going back again.
 * Horace, Epigrams, Book I. 1. 74. Quoted Vestigia nulla retrorsum.


 * And so to tread As if the wind, not she, did walk; Nor prest a flower, nor bow'd a stalk.
 * Ben Jonson, Masques, The Vision of Delight.


 * Her treading would not bend a blade of grass, Or shake the downy blow-ball from his stalk!
 * Ben Jonson, The Sad Shepherd.


 * A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew.
 * Walter Scott, Lady of the Lake (1810), Canto I, Stanza 18.


 * The grass stoops not, she treads on it so light.
 * William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis (1593), line 1,028.


 * Steps with a tender foot, light as on air, The lovely, lordly creature floated on.
 * Alfred Tennyson, The Princess (1847), VI, line 72.


 * Sed summa sequar fastigia rerum.
 * But I will trace the footsteps of the chief events.
 * Virgil, Æneid (29-19 BC), I, 342.


 * Methought I saw the footsteps of a throne.
 * William Wordsworth, Miscellaneous Sonnets, Methought I Saw the Footsteps of a Throne.