Quotes About Down

To the question: How do the authors of sketches, stories and novels get along in life, the following answer can or must be given: They are stragglers and they are down at heel.

the door. Far down the street he could

There are two elevators. One is blue. One is red. When you want to go up, you take the blue elevator. When you want to go down, you take the red elevator. It's that simple. It can't go wrong! The blue one only goes up. And the red one only goes down." And so, at last, Wayside School got elevators. A blue one and a red one. They each worked perfectly one time — and never could be used again.

You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream -- the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order --or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path.

You and I are told increasingly that we have to choose between a left or a right. There is only an up or down: up to man's age-old dream -- the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order -- or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. And regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this downward course.

One thing was unusual and very humbling; the streets were lined with people as if for a parade all the way to the Waldorf. They cheered & clapped and I wore my arms out waving back to them. I keep thinking this can't continue and yet their warmth & affection seems so genuine I get a lump in my throat. I pray constantly that I won't let them down.

every bit of flying dust. He began to take them down.

you should always kick a man when he's down. It's much easier then.

History could claw upward as well as down. The powerful could be deafened by the cries of the poor.

One hit, one moan of fractured air, one solid impact and the man went down.

My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels.

In the distance, she could hear the congregation roaring the Talking Heads, bellowing about the sweet release of burning it all down.

Life is full of wonderful passions that come and go over the years, but the only one that will never let you down is reading.

Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not.

To the question: How do the authors of sketches, stories and novels get along in life, the following answer can or must be given: They are stragglers and they are down at heel.

What boots up must come down.

Like the best wine… that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.

Up and down the City Road,In and out the Eagle,That's the way the money goes—Pop goes the weasel!

Hickory dickory dock,The mouse ran up the clock,The clock struck one,The mouse ran down;Hickory dickory dock.

The King of France went up the hillWith forty thousand men;The King of France came down the hillAnd ne'er went up again.

Oh, blow the man down, bullies, blow the man down!To me way-aye, blow the man down.Oh, blow the man down, bullies, blow him right down!Give me some time to blow the man down!

page forty-four, Fire Down Below," he announced in a voice which suggested that he was trying to broadcast to the nation without using a microphone.

One by one the ponds gulped down their ice like big, painful pills.

Comedy should always evolve; it's so easy to punch down.