Barefoot Quotations

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.

You have to be a cop-out or a wash-out or a dropout to come to our college. You have to work with your hands. You have to have a dignity of labor. You have to show that you have a skill that you can offer to the community and provide a service to the community. So we started the Barefoot College, and we redefined professionalism.

You come for the money, you don't come to Barefoot College. You come for the work and the challenge, you'll come to the Barefoot College. That is where we want you to try crazy ideas. Whatever idea you have, come and try it. It doesn't matter if you fail. Battered, bruised, you start again.

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.

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.

I like to watch Bourdain and Andrew Zimmern, because I like them when they travel. I like Ina Garten, 'The Barefoot Contessa.' Giada is really nice, but I get a little bit bored with just staying in the kitchen.

I used to run around barefoot and climb trees and pick fruit and sell it on the side of the road like a real island girl.

By the dawn of the millennium, the hallways at Microsoft were no longer home to barefoot programmers in Hawaiian shirts working through nights and weekends toward a common goal of excellence; instead, life behind the thick corporate walls had become staid and brutish.

I think the perception of me can be, you know, confused. But that's only because people only see that side of me when I'm at work, in front of the camera. So they don't see Miranda at home; they don't see behind the scenes. They see the glamour of it all but they don't see Miranda standing barefoot in a dirty old house.

He that sows Thorns, should never go barefoot.

I've lived in the Hamptons since 1978, when I first bought my store Barefoot Contessa.

I tried to be like the richer kids as much as I could because I wanted to live on their streets, at least hang out on their streets and eat their amazing food and walk barefoot on their shag carpets. I became something of a pest in that way, and in general, other people's parents didn't like me.

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.

Keep violence in the mind Where it belongs (Barefoot in the Head)

We heard gunshots. We could see people moving barefoot through the water, with all they could carry, just panicked. It was mayhem.

You can be barefoot and have worries.

Right now, Barefoot has been our strongest runner. He came on strong in track and has run all summer.

I have my own parties. They involve being barefoot with a piece of fried chicken and margarita in each hand.

He loved to ski barefoot and enjoyed making his own skis. He would soak boards in water, and put them on blocks. Then he would drive his model A car up on them and let it sit while they dried. It would form a curve in them. He loved the outdoors.

I was actually a fan of hers before I became the director here. We'll be showing The Killers, at 10 a.m., The Barefoot Contessa, at 12:30 p.m., and Show Boat at 3 p.m.

You look at the Barefoot Contessa or Lydia Bastianich, and it's just like watching your mother cooking.

When people said Africa would change me, I didn't understand what they meant. To see the poverty in the townships, for instance, is overwhelming. I found it heart-wrenching to see young children walking barefoot and hungry in the dirt. I'm the kind of person who wants to change the world right here and now, so I got frustrated.

We got my 10-year-old grandson and headed outside barefoot in the 15-degree temperature. We got in the car and called the Fire Department back from my cell phone.

Running on the rocks barefoot with his feet burned so bad was what hurt him the most.

The Barefoot Shoemaker: Capitalizing on the New Russia

I grew up in central Florida in the nineteen-sixties, barefoot half the time and running around the orange groves where my father worked. I remember flocks of white birds that would lift from the backs of cattle, disturbed by the jackhammers and bulldozers clearing land for Walt Disney World.

He that goes barefoot must not plant thorns

Better a barefoot than none.

If I had to choose a part of my life that was as close to perfect as life gets, it would be Catfish Haven. It was a lot of exploration. I?d go fishing barefoot and run through pumpkin patches. The world closed in a little bit when we moved back to Elgin.

I don't want to go in armed with a bunch of tunes -- I want to go in barefoot and unprepared. It's an ongoing relationship. We like the way he works, and he likes the way we work together, so I don't think it's even a question.

Hee that goes barefoot, must not plant thornes.

You can see the kids, so inspired with the game of baseball. Without that, they have no hope. They don't have proper uniforms or just wear flip-flops, or go barefoot ... but baseball is baseball, it doesn't matter if you're barefoot or flip-flopped.

Ah, that I were free again! Free as when I rode that day, Where the barefoot maiden raked the hay

Ah, that I were free again! Free as when I rode that day, Where the barefoot maiden raked the hay

You watch him walk and it's like he's walking barefoot on glass.

You know you're old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you're barefoot.

If arrogance were shoes, he'd never go barefoot.

The barefoot component of my training is about strengthening the toes.

I no longer run barefoot.

He that scatters thorns, let him not go barefoot.

And barefoot or first thing in the morning, I feel beautiful. Because I feel like me. I didn't always feel that way, but I feel that way now. When somebody just loves you, and when you make somebody happy, when your presence seems to make them happy, you suddenly feel like the most beautiful person in the world.