Boots Quotations

There comes a time when what is needed is not just rhetoric, but boots on the ground.

I just had a normal African childhood; we played football a lot, but it was always in the street and always without shoes. Boots were very expensive, and when there are seven in your family, and you say you want to buy a pair, your father wants to kill you.

I'm a T-shirt-and-jeans-with-combat-boots guy. And if I don't have to shave, I don't.

The rumors of Frank Sinatra's violence and his ties to organized crime were such that journalists joked in print about me ending up in concrete boots and sleeping with the fishes if I proceeded to write his biography.

I have lucky boots for military embeds, a lucky scarf for road trips, a lucky handbag, and lucky days of the week. I tap into my gut for 'right' or 'wrong' feelings about such simple things as whether I should go grocery shopping.

I was in better shape when I went into boot camp than when I came out.

I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.

A British porch is a musty, forbidding non-room in which to fling a sodden umbrella or a muddy pair of boots; a guard against the elements and strangers. By contrast the good ol' American front porch seems to stand for positivity and openness; a platform from which to welcome or wave farewell; a place where things of significance could happen.

Football is so barbaric. Sometimes I wonder what I was thinking by playing it. I feel almost like I escaped from boot camp.

Once, no self-respecting puncher considered himself dressed for work until he had his feet inside of a pair of $15 boots made by one of the favorite boot-makers, whose merits they discussed about the camp fires night after night.

I'm a big Ralph Lauren girl, but I love vintage clothing. I like the whole western jeans and boots style. I love vintage T-shirts and flannels, and there's nothing like a great vintage sweatshirt.

I've always looked at shoes as being immensely beautiful things.

I didn't just want to be Frank's daughter who sang Boots. I take my music very seriously and studied very hard. It's not a joke to me.

I would have liked to grow up in Liverpool and become a rocker. I would have put my boots on, jeans and a leather jacket, and long hair and played the guitar.

Have you heard about the Irishman who reversed into a car boot sale and sold the engine?

I think because I did become a well-known face in my thirties and not in my twenties, I was pretty settled in my boots and I knew who I was. And I think there's a sort of Scottish thing, too, where you don't take yourself too seriously, and you don't get carried away with your own sense of self-importance.

Usually when I'm out doing stuff, I'm just out in the wild, doing the wild thing. I don't really get a chance to just chill out until I come here, in my creative space.

I can certainly put myself in Israel's shoes. They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders.

Mr. Burns comes out and flips cigar ashes on his shoes, and makes up about 90 percent of what you hear.

Don't speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn't walk in their shoes.

I love heels, and as a size 36, I've accumulated a wall of amazing high heels from catwalk shows over the years where designers had to make especially small shoes. Tom Ford's golden versions are my favourite. I do, however, also live in my flat Saint Laurent Chelsea boots or Givenchy sneakers.

I'd like to die with my boots on.

I have no skanky guys in my band nor on my bus. If they are they get the boot real quick

My mom has an English accent, so we always referred to the trunk as the 'boot.' And then, suddenly, we moved to Georgia and I would say things like 'open the boot' with a bit of an accent, and I quickly realized I had to adapt; that kind of thing will get you beat up!

I was very, very shocked about Cooperstown. I thought my chances were fairly good, but I tried to stay low key about it, not too high and not too low. That was the way I played, too.

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

I'm a bit of lunatic with shoes and jackets and jeans. It's just how I am.

The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.

Be in the habit of experimenting with your clothing so that you don't get stuck for life with a self-image developed over the course of high school.

Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.

My biggest style inspirations come from the '90s. I'm really inspired by TLC, Janet Jackson, and designers like Jeremy Scott. I'm hugely inspired by Club Kids from New York back in the '90s. I'm inspired by the drag queen scene. Combat boots and the torn off jeans and a baggy shirt - I love that look.

If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.

Of course, I will keep myself fit, keep my boots clean and you never know.

I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful.

Short boots are cool, in my humble opinion. They say, 'Hey! Winter is over, but summer hasn't yet arrived - so enjoy this halfway point!'

Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot.

The Japanese actually approach the music on a high level. It's always been on a high level.

If you drag your shoe a bit those plastic spikes or rubber spikes can be almost as bad as metal spikes.

I have very long, wild hair, a suntan and wear knee high boots and ignore all the rules about what you should or shouldn't wear at whatever age.

I wear Blundstones for hiking. They're like a work boot with a bit of grip, so you can wear them all day. They're quite groovy.

Well actually, we are working on the live album from the shows in Japan. I'm trying to get that finished.

I've worn my share of leopard pink boots to premieres or belts the size of cars. I thought my pink leopard boots were so cool.

That's like asking a cobbler if he's made too many pairs of shoes.

I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.

I like mixing things. I wear a lot of boots. Love boots. And then jeans, but I like to wear them with a really ruffly top. Or I love high-waisted anything.

Putting on fierce boots is an instant pick-me-up.

I wanna keep creating those situations for myself so I don't have to be out front all the time. Then when I do have to be out front, I can do it to the max.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

I wanted to get my recording and become a musician again, work; with other people, do that kind of thing because I kind of got away from that for a while once we started happening, you know, selling records, sold out concerts.

So now I'm left with cigarettes, and I'm trying to scrape that off my shoe and then I'll be done.

When I got into the sport I was so fat that my manager said he should send me to boot camp to lose the weight!

I weighed 190 when I got to boot camp, I came out at 178. I ate only the beans and tomato sauce.

But I'm always trying to plan ahead too and in doing so, and in working on this album, I've met a lot people that I hope to be involved with, on their records and in their situations.

Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of the head, which is made by the stroke of a die.

I can find every jacket under the sun that I like. But I cannot find trousers cut the way I want them. They're all really tight at the bottom. Nobody does a boot cut on a trouser leg. It drives me crazy.

I like army boots, I like peasant skirts - sometimes together! So I do know that I have odd taste.

Even now, I'm very superstitious, in silly ways. I always put my left boot on first. Or on set, I always tie my bow tie from right to left.

Whenever I have bid a hasty goodbye to a loved one, I've always made sure that my record collection was safely stored away in the boot of the car.

As a very young man growing up in Texas, usually I got a shotgun or cowboy boots for Christmas.

Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker.

We have record high temperatures and record high energy prices across the country, and we've seen the dangerous effects caused by extreme temperatures in the past.

I've thought maybe of getting younger artists out doing stuff, like I used to do a lot of. I don't wanna do it day in and day out like I used to, but I still wanna do it.

When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.

Luckily I don't have to buy shoes anymore, because I design them! I'm off tour, so I can dive in and create the shoes that I want for my line. But okay, I did buy a pair of vintage combat boots because they were so beaten up - I had to have them.

I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.

I love to wear boots - and shoes, I don't like at all.

Skinny jeans are usually my go to jean. I do bootleg every once in a while, boyfriend jeans I feel like are so hard to pull off! Skinny jeans are very easy and you can kind of pair anything with them and it will work: heels and boots or nice top or flouncy top.

Boot Camp was great and very interesting. You got to use live rounds of ammunition and got to do a lot of crawling around with live rounds flying around you, so you really had to learn to keep your ass down - everything down for that matter.

I've got scarves and boots from' 1970 that I still wear.

I'm really into tall boots. I just got some new ones from Michael Kors that have these little gold studs. I have Valentino ones that I really love. Real, real tall boots!

Michael Scofield is someone everyone can relate to, but nobody would want to be in his shoes.

I would say probably my least favorite costume ever was in 'Van Helsing.' That was a huge pain because it had thigh-high boots with 30 buckles on them that had to be done up individually.

There are one or two very good women military historians who use imagination, great study and research; they can put themselves in the boots of the soldier.

I like a high boot on a girl.

I think it's a great thing to have failed in life and then pulled yourself up by the boot straps and actually done something, because then you appreciate it more.

I was a fashion addict by the time I was 11 years old. I'd wear a miniskirt and patent-leather boots.

Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.

The life of an actor lends itself to emotion, and yet you have to be tough as old boots to stay at the table.

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so remote as to be forgotten. But they trample with their heavy boots over the sensitive, delicate susceptibilities of an ancient, highly civilized and cultured nation, such as India.

I've always had a thing for Catwoman. Michelle Pfeiffer or Halle Berry in tight leather pants, with the boots - I'm pretty good with either one.

We're starting to get that feeling we need to bring our working boots every day and be ready to play. It was such a good win. I'm so proud of our effort.

We were at 10,000 feet in Utah and I was running out of gas. I was in boots that were leather-soled. The bear was closing in. Now, he's supposed to be playing. Once I started to run, he got really excited. Pretty soon he was chasing me. And I said if this guy gets me, his idea of play is going to be the end of me. So I threw the rifle out and got on that tree so fast. Now, once it was done, I mean, I was sweating bullets. I said, not again. Not again.

Should ever anything be missed - milk, coals, umbrellas, brandy - the cat's pitched into with a boot or anything that's handy.

I'm a fuzzy-headed warm-hearted liberal, and I think fuzzy-headed warm-hearted liberalism is an ideological stance that needs defending-if necessary, with a hob-nailed boot-kick to the bollocks of budding totalitarianism.

Unless I work with Shah Rukh my career cannot be complete. I can't hang my boots till that happens.

I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace.

In the land of Ingary where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of the three. Everyone knows you are the one who will fail first, and worst, if the three of you set out to seek your fortunes.

If you want truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go round the world, it will fly: it is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it. It is well said in the old proverb, 'a lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on'.

We ran the ball well, which opened up the boots and the play action. I didn't do much but just guided them down the field.

I'm just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.

When I asked Amir if he would like to join the lads on their morning run, I swear there was a tear in his eye. He couldn't get his boots on quick enough.

She wore a coat and boots even when it was hot outside. She walked up and down the street talking to herself and cussing. I tried to talk to her, but she acted like she didn't even see me.

She's like, 'I'll do the thigh-high boots pregnant.' She wears the same kind of stuff she did before. I think women are sexier when they're pregnant, so why not go for it?

Shoes? I have loved them all: '60s pumps; white Courreges ankle boots; platform soles from the first time around, in the '70s; more boots - ankle, calf, and knee-high; 1980s sneakers; pin heels and wedges; Mary Janes and stilettos.

She remembered her mother thinking the Colonial women would look similar to the Holly Hobby doll. Yvonne fashioned the boots out of leather and her daughter remembered that her mother made her dress with the yellow background fabric.

One way or another, I've spent a lot of time in breeches and boots lately. I'm pretty sick of hanging round in frilly shirts. It makes you long to get back into your jeans!

I would have quoted my dad who said, 'You're the luckiest kid in the world because you're doing for a living what you did as a kid. You make in a year what I made in my life and, if you let it go to your head I'll kick you with my cowboy boots on.

I have crooked toes from wearing boots that didn't fit me because that's all I could afford as a kid.