he felt as if a tree had fallen and pinned him to the…

When the tree is fallen, all goe with their hatchet. [When the tree is fallen, all go with their hatchet.]

— George Herbert

“They found a thick tree that had fallen, the tangled roots exposed. They saw the drenched ground that had given way. The tree seemed…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

Only when a tree has fallen can you take the measure of it. It is the same with a man.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“The silence after a felled tree has fallen is like the silence immediately after a death. The same sense of culmination.”

— John Berger

“With her silence alone she held off, for a moment longer, the suggestion that the worst was over, the tree had fallen, the storm…

— Alice McDermott

“It was all right when I did it,” I said, “but when you did it, it was wrong. As though—you were following a trail,…

— Naomi Novik

But there are times when a tree can no longer withstand the pain inflicted on it, and the wind will take pity on that…

— Julius Lester

In our own time the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth rate and a general decrease of the population, owing…

— Polybius

The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.

— George W. Bush

Great people are not people who have never fallen down. Greatness has to do with how you get back up.

— Marianne Williamson

I collect my tools: sight, smell, touch, taste, hearing, intellect. Night has fallen...

— Nikos Kazantzakis

“He’d fallen for her—for her sometimes amusing, sometimes confounding combination of strength, brains, drive, vulnerability, and mile-wide stubborn streak. He’d fallen for the whole…

— Samanthe Beck

If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into conversation with…

— Evelyn Waugh

My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I…

— Robert A. Heinlein

I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat.

— Stephen Vincent Benet