Falling Quotes
2730 quotes by 1781 authors
-
Falling for him would be like cliff diving. It would be either the most exhilarating thing that ever happened to me or the stupidest mistake…
— Colleen Houck
-
My heart went cold and only hollow rhythms resounded from within, but then he rose, brilliant as the moon in full and sank in the…
— Fiona Apple
-
You're trying to fight gravity on a planet that insists that love is like falling, and falling is like this.
— Ani DiFranco
-
Falling, falling, falling, falling down. Look yourself in the eye before you drown.
— Emily Saliers
-
The body is a multilingual being. It speaks through its color and its temperature, the flush of recognition, the glow of love, the ash of…
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
-
The human family has invaluable friends and irreplaceable allies in the plant and animal worlds. We cannot continue to tug at the web of life…
— Van Jones
-
Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early…
— Bob Ehrlich
-
I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
— Jorge Luis Borges
-
If our expectations, if our fondest prayers and dreams, are not realized then we should all bear in mind that the greatest glory of living…
— Nelson Mandela
-
Sonny Liston is nothing. The man can't talk. The man can't fight. The man needs talking lessons. The man needs boxing lessons. And since he's…
— Muhammad Ali
-
Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft
— John Coltrane
-
Snow falling softly on lashes of eyes you love, and a cold cheek growing warm next to your own in hushed dark familial December.
— James Schuyler
-
When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion falling down into the abyss.
— Alberto Giacometti
-
The note of hope is the only note that can help us or save us from falling to the bottom of the heap of evolution,…
— Woody Guthrie
-
Don’t go searching for a subject, let your subject find you. You can’t rush inspiration. … Once your subject finds you, it’s like falling in…
— Colson Whitehead
-
You know what days these are? The days of Elijah. We are in the days of Elijah! Fire is falling down from heaven!
— Benny Hinn
-
Humiliation and indifference, these are conditions every one of us finds unbearable — this is why the Coyote when falling is more concerned with the…
— Chuck Jones
-
I am pleased to see from the laughter on the Ministerial benches that there is no implication on their part to take Sir Oswald Mosley…
— Clement Attlee
-
Literature is love. I think it went like this: drawings in the cave, sounds in the cave, songs in the cave, songs about us. Later,…
— Eileen Myles
-
I began to write poetry again in 1975, when I fell in love with another woman. I returned to poetry not because I had “become…
— Minnie Bruce Pratt
Who Wrote These Falling Quotes
1,781 authors contributed a total of 2,730 Falling Quotes, led by these top contributors: