Falling Quotes

2730 quotes by 1781 authors

Look up at the miracle of the falling snow,â€”the air a dizzy maze of whirling, eddying flakes, noiselessly transforming the world, the exquisite crystals dropping… — John Burroughs
Hark! the hours are softly calling Bidding Spring arise To listen to the rain-drops falling From the cloudy skies To listen to Earthâ€™s weary voices… — Adelaide Anne Procter
RIE emphasizes the benefits of infants spending peaceful, uninterrupted time following their biological rhythms of falling asleep when sleepy and eating when hungry, rather than… — Magda Gerber
A romance novel focuses exclusively on two people falling in love. It can't be about a woman caring for her aging mother or something like… — Kristin Hannah
Our very walking is an incessant falling; a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement. It is emblematic of… — Thomas Carlyle
You can accept a falling out that changes your plans, but it's hard to accept a betrayal that changes your memories. — Robert Breault
To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off. — Lawrence Durrell
150 people die every year from being hit by falling coconuts. Not to worry, drug makers are developing a vaccine. — Jim Carrey
When you're jumping, it's just an aggressiveness, but I think the exhilaration and the fun comes after you make the bar and you're falling. That's… — Jenn Suhr
Buying a home wouldn't make much sense if house prices were likely to decline further; no one wants to catch a falling knife. — Mark Zandi
The universe is illusion merely, not one speck of it real, and we are not only its victims, falling always into or smashed by a… — Annie Dillard
You never know what peace is until you walk on the shores or in the fields or along the winding red roads of Prince Edward… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
True genius walks along a line, and, perhaps, our greatest pleasure is in seeing it so often near falling, without being ever actually down. — Oliver Goldsmith
Laughter is the only strategy that has ever worked at all for me when my world is falling apart. — Pat Conroy
I enjoy writing about people falling in love, probably because I think the first time you fall in love is the first time that you… — John Green
What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf. — Vincent Van Gogh
When you are editing, the final master is Aristotle and his poetics. You might have a terrific episode, but if people are falling out because… — Ken Burns
The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on… — Claude Levi-Strauss
I was initially planning to write about grief in terms of Eurydice and the myth thereof. By that point the overall metaphor of height and… — Julian Barnes
I reached my full height at age 11, and I was clumsy as all get-out - all elbows and knees, couldn't get up a flight… — Jeannette Walls

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