- Prayer
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- Nov 07, 2020
Footprints Quotes
What we leave behind, on purpose or not.
A footballer choosing to make his own mark rather than fill someone else's boots, a traveler owning up to a carbon footprint — these quotes use footprints as proof that presence leaves a trace. One even ties it to because quotes-style reasoning about why direction matters more than distance.
- Last Updated on Jul 31, 2026
- Bridge
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wouldn't say Pulisic is there to fill Hazard's boots. It's not fair to put that load on him. He's there to bring another way of playing for Chelsea and he will create his own footprints basically and build his own legacy there at the Bridge. He is definitely a player the fans will like. In America he is rated very, very highly.
- Bugged
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- Nov 07, 2020
We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we leave our fingerprints on broken locks, our voiceprints in bugged rooms, our footprints in the wet concrete.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do have carbon footprints because of travel, but apart from that, I am simple guy.
- Direction
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- Nov 07, 2020
While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction.
- Circular
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- Nov 07, 2020
The kings of Spain brought us the conquistadores and masters, whose footprints remained in the circular land grants assigned to those searching for gold in the sands of rivers, an abusive and shameful form of exploitation, traces of which can be noted from the air in many places around the country.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I keep trying to explain to people that the archetype of intelligence is not Dustin Hoffman in 'The Rain Man;' it is a human being, period. It is squishy things that explode in a vacuum, leaving footprints on their moon.
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sure, the first light snowfall may be a chance to dance giddily, leaving squeaky footprints through the neighborhood, marking the runner's right to the domain. But later drubbings of snow merely complicate running. Snow turns to ice, to slush, to ice again. Tire ruts twist ankles. New snow hides the hazards.
- Follow
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- Nov 07, 2020
So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.
- Hand
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- Nov 07, 2020
All along the untrodden paths of the future, I can see the footprints of an unseen hand.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020