Tiptoes Quotes - Page 2

• On dancing on pointe: Why don't they just get taller girls?

  Henny Youngman

  Girl, Dancing, Ballet

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• As he walks away on his own two feet--the toddler's body-mind has reached its moment of perfection. The world is his and he the mighty conqueror of all he beholds.... As long as mother sticks around in the wings, the mighty acrobat confidently performs his trick of twirling in circles, walking on tiptoe, jumping, climbing, staring, naming. He is joyous, filled with his grandeur and wondrous omnipotence.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Mother, Omnipotence, Circles

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• One has to tiptoe lightly and steal up to one's quarry; you don't swish the water when you are fishing.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Fishing, Water

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• He stops in his tracks, face expressing major disappointment. "Wait - seriously? That's it? We don't get to do a stealthy tiptoe as we slip around back? No sneaking through a cracked window, or arguing over who gets to crawl through the dogie door to let the other one in?

  Alyson Noel

  Disappointment, Doors, Track

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• Your parents' views are, by current standards, out there. Getting in their faces about it would be needlessly disrespectful, but there's no reason for you to tiptoe through their delusional little terrarium as if you can't bend even one blade of grass.

  Carolyn Hax

  Views, Parent, Littles

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• Even when black youth gangs target white strangers on the streets and spew out racial hatred as they batter them and rob them, mayors, police chiefs and the media tiptoe around their racism and many in the media either don't cover these stories or leave out the race and racism involved.

  Thomas Sowell

  Race, Media, Black Youth

  "Social Degeneration: Part III" by Thomas Sowell, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 16, 2011.

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• Everything in the world has its two faces, however. Weeds sometimes blossom into artful flowers. Beauty walks hand in hand with ugliness, sickness with health, and life tiptoes around in the horned shadow of death. The trick is to recognize which is which and to recognize what you're dealing with at the time.

  Tiffany Baker

  Weed, Flower, Shadow Of Death

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• The Christian on his knees sees more than the philosopher on tiptoe. God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Christian, Prayer, Knees

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• Most people tiptoe their way through life, hoping they make it safely to death.

  Earl Nightingale

  People, Way

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• This world has suns, but they are overcast;This world has sweets, but they're of ling'ring bloom;Life still expects, and empty falls at last;Warm Hope on tiptoe drops into the tomb.

  John Clare

  Sweet, Fall, World

  John Clare (1821). “The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems”, p.166

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• Vowels were something else. He didn't like them and they didn't like him. There were only five of them, but they seemed to be everywhere. Why, you could go through twenty words without bumping into some of the shyer consonants, but it seemed as if you couldn't tiptoe past a syllable without waking up a vowel. Consonants, you know pretty much where you stood, but you could never trust a vowel.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Past, Wake Up, Vowels

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• You think giving you a hug would give away too much?" he says. "You know," I say. "I really don't care." I stand on my tiptoes and press my lips to his. It is the best moment of my life.

  Veronica Roth

  Thinking, Giving, Hug

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• I rise up on my tiptoes. He's already bending his head down, moving his lips toward mine. And then, well, I haven't exactly studied this, but I'm pretty sure that ours is not the most expert kiss in Sualan history. It's a little hard to figure out how we should tilt our heads so our noses don't bump. But this kiss is a promise, a vow. Come to think of it, it doesn't really matter that ours is not the most expert kiss in Sualan history. It's still the best.

  Margaret Haddix

  Moving, Kissing, Thinking

  Margaret Peterson Haddix (2010). “Palace of Mirrors”, Simon and Schuster

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• When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family, you tiptoe, you don't want to step on any mines.

  Glenn Beck

  Want, Steps, Alcoholics

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• But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Eye, Past

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1283, Delphi Classics

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• All around you, people will be tiptoeing through life, just to arrive at death safely. But dear children, do not tiptoe. Run, hop, skip, or dance, just don't tiptoe.

  Shane Claiborne

  Running, Children, People

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.176, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If you want to accord with the Tao, just do your job, then let go.

  Laozi

  Letting Go, Jobs, Work

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• The carved images on the early Minoan sealstones are tantalising, inscrutable. The Nature Goddess is yanked from the soil like a snake or a sheaf of barley; the Mistress of the Animals suckles goats and gazelles. There are male Adorants certainly - up on tiptoe, their outstretched arms hoisted in a kind of heil, their bodies arched suggestively, pelvis forward, before the Goddess - but there are no masculine deities, not a single one in sight. No woman worth her salt, one might think, could fail to be intrigued.

  Alison Fell

  Animal, Thinking, Sight

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• She couldn't believe what she did then. Before she could stop herself, she leaned up on tiptoes, put her arms around his neck, and kissed him on the mouth. Her lips brushed over his for the barest of seconds, but it was still a kiss, and when she came to her senses and dared to pull away and look at him, he had the most curious expression on his face. Brodick knew she regretted her sponatenity, but as he stared into her brilliant green eyes, he also knew, with a certainty that shook him to the core, that his life had just been irrevocably changed by this mere slip of a woman.

  Julie Garwood

  Believe, Eye, Kissing

  Julie Garwood (2010). “Ransom”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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• If you tiptoe into cold water, you're missing out on the rush of plunging in headfirst.

  Simone Elkeles

  Life, Water, Missing

  Simone Elkeles (2013). “Return to Paradise”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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• She stood, squared her shoulders. “We’ll do it. Together.” And then she did something that shocked them both. She rose on her tiptoes and pressed a swift kiss on his lips. “Thank you for returning to help me.” When she tried to move away, he latched onto her forearms and held her in place. His eyes were gleaming. "Next time you decide to do that…" What?" she said, stiffening. "Give you a little warning?" No." He grinned. "Linger.

  Gena Showalter

  Moving, Eye, Kissing

  Gena Showalter (2017). “Gena Showalter Intertwined Complete Collection: Intertwined\Unraveled\Twisted”, p.206, Harlequin

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• Dropping her hand, she turned in his arms. Then, rising up on tiptoe, she cupped his face in her palms and drew him down. Her kiss was innocent, vulnerable, a caress so gentle that it made him her slave between one breath and the next.

  Nalini Singh

  Kissing, Hands, Rising Up

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: The Psy-Changeling Series”, p.1824, Penguin

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• Where is heaven? you ask me, my child,-the sages tell us it is beyond the limits of birth and death, unswayed by the rhythm of day and night; it is not of the earth. But your poet knows that its eternal hunger is for time and space, and it strives evermore to be born in the fruitful dust. Heaven is fulfilled in your sweet body, my child, in your palpitating heart. The sea is beating its drums in joy, the flowers are a-tiptoe to kiss you. For heaven is born in you, in the arms of the mother- dust.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Mother, Sweet, Children

  Rabindranath Tagore, “Lover's Gifts XLIV: Where Is Heaven”

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• But there was no hiding from Conscience. Not in new homes and new cars. In travel. In meditation or frantic activity. In children, in good works. On tiptoes or bended knee. In a big career. Or a small cabin. It would find you. The past always did. Which was why... it was vital to be aware of actions in the present. Because the present became the past, and the past grew. And got up, and followed you. And found you... Who wouldn't be afraid of this?

  Louise Penny

  Children, Home, Past

  Louise Penny (2009). “The Brutal Telling: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.372, Minotaur Books

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• Shh" he said. "Look." "Where?" "Can't you see'um?" he whispered. "All the Terabithians standing on tiptoe to see you." "Me?" "Shh, yes. There's a rumor going around that the beautiful girl arrving today might be the queen they've been waiting for.

  Katherine Paterson

  Beautiful, Girl, Queens

  "Bridge to Terabithia". Book by Katherine Paterson, October 21, 1977.

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