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• For that moment, at least, all our doors and windows were wide open; we were not carefully shutting out God's purifying light, in order to feel safe and secure; we were bathed in the same light that burned and yet did not consume the bush. We walked barefoot on holy ground.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Holy Ground, Light, Doors

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.40, Convergent Books

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• I wanted the world to know that my country Ethiopia has always won with determination and heroism.

  Abebe Bikila

  Sports, Country, Running

  "50 stunning Olympic moments: Abebe Bikila's 1960 marathon victory - in pictures" by Steven Bloor, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2012.

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• Not bombs nor my broken heart can take away from me walking barefoot with you in jasmine June through the Field of Mars.

  Paullina Simons

  Heart, June, Broken

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• Death comes to me again, a girl in a cotton slip, barefoot, giggling. It’s not so terrible she tells me, not like you think, all darkness and silence. There are windchimes and the smell of lemons, some days it rains, but more often the air is dry and sweet. I sit beneath the staircase built from hair and bone and listen to the voices of the living. I like it, she says, shaking the dust from her hair, especially when they fight, and when they sing.

  Dorianne Laux

  Girl, Sweet, Rain

  Dorianne Laux (2000). “Smoke: poems”, BOA Editions Ltd.

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• She padded toward Han, barefoot, like a faerie startled out of a forest bower, bewitching mix of clan and flatland beauty.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Forests, Clans, Faerie

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

  Tamora Pierce

  Shoes, Arrogance, Ifs

  Tamora Pierce (2007). “Squire: Book 3 of the Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.151, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Who waiteth for dead man's shoes will go long barefoot.

  John Heywood

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.

  Agnes Repplier

  Girl, Country, Believe

  Agnes Repplier (2009). “American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier”, Intercollegiate Studies Institute

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• Everyone who ever walked barefoot into his child's room late at night hates Legos.

  Tony Kornheiser

  Sarcastic, Children, Hate

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• I think the perception of me can be, you know, confused. But thats only because people only see that side of me when Im at work, in front of the camera. So they dont see Miranda at home; they dont see behind the scenes. They see the glamour of it all but they dont see Miranda standing barefoot in a dirty old house.

  Miranda Kerr

  Confused, Dirty, Home

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• I think in L.A. everybody has a really cool flare, trendy style here. I think I kinda adapt be it I'm a little more trendy in L.A. Somewhere in New York, I could literally sit at a café and have a cappuccino and watch people walk by and it's like a fashion show to me. Compared to somewhere like Miami where I literally wear beachwear all day and I can walk around barefoot. My style is consistent. It may bend a little bit according to cities, but that's about it.

  Kelly Rowland

  Fashion, New York, Thinking

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• The bread which you use is the bread of the hungry; the garment hanging in your wardrobe is the garment of him who is naked; the shoes you do not wear are the shoes of the one who is barefoot; the acts of charity that you do not perform are so many injustices that you commit.

  Saint Basil

  Shoes, Saint, Naked

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• When you ask "Do you wanna dance, my barefoot Cinderella? Don't need no slippers or a party dress,the way you're lookin' right now is what I like the best", and then you... Say "do you wanna take a chance? Stay with me forever, no one will ever be more beautiful my barefoot, my barefoot Cinderella.

  Miley Cyrus

  Beautiful, Party, Forever

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• Daughter of Time, the hypocrite Days,
  Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,
  And marching single in an endless file,
  Bring diadems and fagots in their hands;
  To each they offer gifts after his will,
  Bread, kingdom, stars, and sky that holds them all;
  I, in my pleached garden watched the pomp
  Forgot my morning wishes, hastily
  Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day
  Turned and departed silent. I too late
  Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Daughter, Morning, Stars

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Days”

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• It was an actual Christmas tree farm. We had, like, 15 acres. It was really fun as a kid. I also spent my summers at the Jersey Shore, on the bay in Stone Harbor. I walked everywhere barefoot. It was just the most amazing, magical way to grow up.

  Taylor Swift

  Summer, Growing Up, Fun

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• I lived an idyllic 'Huckleberry Finn' life in a tiny town. Climbing trees. Tagging after brothers. Happy. Barefoot on my pony. It was 'To Kill a Mockingbird'-esque.

  Sissy Spacek

  Brother, Climbing, Tree

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• Had I not had my grandmother, who dared to be my rainbow in the clouds, I would have been just another sexually abused barefoot black girl on the roads of Arkansas.

  Maya Angelou

  Girl, Grandmother, Clouds

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• Way across the country where the hillside mountains glide, the dynamo of your smile caressed the barefoot virgin child.

  Van Morrison

  Country, Children, Your Smile

  Song: Beside You

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• There is a growing subculture of barefoot runners, people who got rid of their shoes. And what they have found uniformly is you get rid of the shoes, you get rid of the stress, you get rid of the injuries and the ailments.

  Christopher McDougall

  Motivation, Stress, Inspiration

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• I miss the woods. Sometimes I go on weekend trips and just wander the woods, barefoot and reminiscing, and I put my contact lenses in. Is that weird?

  Peter Facinelli

  Weekend, Missing, Reminiscing

  Source: collider.com

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• Barefoot conducts his seminars on his houseboat in Sausalito. It costs a hundred dollars to find out why we are on this Earth. You also get a sandwich, but I wasn't hungry that day. John Lennon had just been killed and I think I know why we are on this Earth; it's to find out that what you love the most will be taken away from you, probably due to an error in high places rather than by design.

  Philip K. Dick

  Taken, Thinking, Errors

  Philip K. Dick (2015). “Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.13, Melville House

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• What?” I said defensively, clutching the mink and my dignity. Since I was barefoot, mostly naked and completely hungover, I was pretty sure I grasped only one of them.

  Karen Chance

  Naked, Dignity, Mink

  Karen Chance (2011). “Hunt the Moon: A Cassie Palmer Novel”, p.143, Penguin

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• I shall begin my march for Camp tomorrow morning. It was not in my power to move until I could procure shoes for the troops almost barefoot.

  Anthony Wayne

  Morning, Moving, Fog

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• In real life, we do things out of character, constantly. A couple of days ago, my shoes were hurting, so I walked barefoot through New York. Someone who has known me my whole life would think that was so out of character. But I did it because of the circumstances.

  Allison Williams

  Hurt, New York, Couple

  "‘Girls’ Star Allison Williams On Her Masturbation Scene, Lena Dunham And More". Interview with Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 29, 2012.

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• I grew up as a tomboy. I was always barefoot, running races with the guys on the block, climbing trees, and beating kids up.

  Edie Falco

  Running, Block, Kids

  "A Look at Edie Falco's Busy Schedule". Interview with Bruce Fretts, ew.com. January 15, 1999.

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