It's not a sin to get knocked down; it's a sin to stay down

Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom…

— Emily Robison

Two things revolutionised life: moving to the countryside and falling in love.

— Nick Love

“When you jump, all you're going to do is fall. But leaping? Leaping is when you think there's something on the other side.”

— David Levithan

I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,…

— Bruce Springsteen

To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life.

— Kenneth Clark

Many Republicans have always reminded me of professional WWF wrestlers. They come into the ring all pumped up and acting like they're invincible and…

— Paul Feig

“We will all, at some point in our lives, fall. Every single one of us. We shouldn't spend our time trying to avoid falling.…

— Nicole Williams

I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening…

— Rae Armantrout

We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that.…

— Phil Robertson

How wonderful it would be to scatter words as they rise to consciousness, to let them lie where they fall.

— Joanna Scott

My life is a crystal teardrop. There are snowflakes falling in the teardrop and little figures trudging in slow motion.

— Joan Baez

Life will knock you down & it's tough, but you are strong enough. Get back up.

— Anonymous

When I was 13, I began relaxing my hair, and that meant when I turned 18 it began to crack and fall off, and…

— Soledad O'Brien

“If you ever falling but can't see the bottom be glad you can't because at the bottom it's either a soft land or rocks!”

— Kelseigh Ashton

Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction.

— Sherwin B. Nuland