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Fall Quotes by Mary Oliver
- Snow was falling, so much like stars filling the dak trees that one could easily imagine its reason for being was nothing more the prettiness.
- I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel…
- At Blackwater Pond the tossed waters have settled after a night of rain. I dip my cupped hands. I drink a long time. It tastes…
- I wanted the past to go away, I wanted to leave it, like another country; I wanted my life to close, and open like a…
- The poet dreams of the classroom I dreamed I stood up in class And I said aloud: Teacher, Why is algebra important? Sit down, he…
- Every spring I hear the thrush singing in the glowing woods he is only passing through. His voice is deep, then he lifts it until…
More Fall Quotes
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on. — Lance Armstrong
- Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or… — Mary Kay Ash
- From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review,… — Isaac Asimov
- I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in… — Margaret Atwood
- The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling? — Saint Augustine
- To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. — Jane Austen
- I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that… — Teresa of Avila
- Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall. — Charles Babbage
- I would hate now to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit my head,… — Lauren Bacall
- Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. — Francis Bacon
- The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall. — Francis Bacon