The question is not "can you wear your father's shoes?". The question is "can you walk in your father's shoes?". It is one thing having a mentor and it is another thing to become like your mentor. ― Israelmore Ayivor

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In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude. - Julia Child

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It’s Friday night and the rain is coming and I’ll find myself at some bar making some woman smile, wondering if you’d hop on the next thing moving in this direction, run in the house, throw on your chucks and play with me in the rain. ― Darnell Lamont Walker, Book of She

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I did NOT have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty. ― Imelda Marcos

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Then I began, as though I had never seen my shoes before, to study their expression, their mimelike movements when I moved my toes, their shape, and the worn-out leather they had; and I discovered that their wrinkles and their white seams gave them an expression, provided them with a face. Something of my own being had gone over into these shoes, they struck me as being a ghost of my "I," a breathing part of myself. . . . ― Knut Hamsun

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Where civilization entailed the corruption of barbarian virtues and the creation of dependent people, I decided, I was opposed to civilization.

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My maid never sweeps under the bed so I asked her to do so today. Found a pen, three pairs of shoes and the man I had lost two years ago. ― Sanhita Baruah

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She couldn't help thinking that something was wrong with a person had more shoes than books in their home. ― Victoria Connelly, Wish You Were Here

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I felt the water rising enough to touch my Vans. She was worth ruing a pair of shoes over. ― Nyrae Dawn, What a Boy Wants

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Pandora opened the box with the new high-heels, put them on and went out to town. ― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

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