Death's dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
The smallest worm will turn being trodden on, And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood.
Winning wasn't natural for me. It had to be fought for, in the echoes and trodden footprints of my mind.
Go now, verses, on your light feet, you have not trodden hard on the old earth where the graves laugh when they see their guests, the one corpse stacked on top of the other. Go now and stagger to her whom I do not know.
Accepting the gift may take the accumulated wisdom of some trodden miles, but it also opens the welcome windows of joy.
An enemy might at any time become a friend, but while an enemy was an enemy he should be trodden on and persecuted.
The air was fragrant with a thousand trodden aromatic herbs, with fields of lavender, and with the brightest roses blushing in tufts all over the meadows.
The coral zoophyte may be leveled by transported masses swept over by the waters; yet like the trodden sod, it sprouts again, and continues to grow and flourish as before.
We most often go astray on a well trodden and much frequented road.
A path is something you create as you walk it. The ground you've trodden hardens, and that's what forms your path. You're the only one who can create your own path. Walk on your own. If you haven't given up yet, that is. -Cross Marian
It bothers me to know there is the possibility that I as a Christian would be not only an underdog, but that I would be trodden upon if I claimed that I was a Christian.
If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
Deregulation is a transfer of power from the trodden to the treading. It is unsurprising that all conservative parties claim to hate big government.
Often we come home from a sharing session with a feeling that something precious has been taken away from us or that holy ground has been trodden upon.
E'en the rough rocks with tender myrtle bloom, and trodden weeds send out a rich perfume.
One night awaits all, and death's path must be trodden once and for all.
The trodden worm curls up. This testifies to its caution. It thus reduces its chances of being trodden upon again. In the language of morality: Humility.
