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Quotes About Falling

Wayside school is falling down, falling down, falling down, Wayside school is falling down my fair lady. Kids go splat as they hit the ground, hit the ground, hit the ground, Kids go splat as the hit the ground my fair lady . Broken bones and blood and gore, blood and gore, blood and gore, Broken bones and blood and gore my fair lady. We don't have to go to school no more, school no more, school no more, We don't have to go to school no more my fair lady.
~ Louis Sachar
Down on the playground Kathy was singing her favorite song. "Wayside School is falling down, falling down, falling down. Wayside School is falling down, my fair lady. "Kids go splat as they hit the ground, hit the ground, hit the ground. Kids go splat as they hit the ground, my fair lady.
~ Louis Sachar
terror, and clinging with her hands to the wall to avoid falling. Every one drew back, and the man in the red cloak remained standing alone in the middle of the room. Oh, grace, grace, pardon! cried the wretch, falling on her knees. The unknown waited for silence, and then resumed, I told you well that she would know
~ Alexandre Dumas
These were the times when children dreamed about nuclear testing and falling stars. There was an undercurrent of unrest, like a wave, racial division in the cities, the war halfway around the world blooming with blood.
~ Alice Hoffman
There were so many stars in the dusky night I could see them falling as I gazed upward into the darkness. They seemed so near, like the Salt Sea in the distance, when they were so far away.
~ Alice Hoffman
But I know I would not go out. I had taken this time to fall in love instead — in love with the sort of helplessness I had not felt in death — the helplessness of being alive, the dark bright pity of being human — feeling as you went, groping in corners and opening your arms to light - all of it part of navigating the unknown.
~ Alice Sebold
Sometimes cats fall ten flights out of the windows of highrises and land on their feet. You only believe it because you've seen it in print.
~ Alice Sebold
America, the plum blossoms are falling.
~ Allan Ginsberg
I like falling off my skateboard the way I like loving you. Broken hearts, like broken bones, hurt well.
~ Joey Comeau
Once I blazed across the sky, Leaving trails of flame; I fell to earth, and here I lie - Who'll help me up again? -A Shooting Star
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In life as in football, fall forward when you fall.
~ Arthur Guiterman
Once I was playing and moving around and I fell right on my back. Just straight on my back. It was the most embarrassing moment of my life.
~ Tommy Bolin
Perhaps it was Helen's way of falling in love--a curious way to Margaret, whose agony and whose contempt of Henry were yet imprinted with his image. Helen forgot people. They were husks that had enclosed her emotion.
~ E.M. Forster
Thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!
~ Anonymous
For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.
~ Anonymous
London Bridge is falling down,My fair lady.
~ Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes
The last of autumn's leaves spiraling to earth.
~ Anthony Doerr
It was September and rain was falling. The territory west of the river Weser through which the Romans marched was a mix of wetlands
~ Anthony Everitt
Sometimes you fall, spinning through space, grasping for the things that keep you on this earth. Sometimes you catch them.
~ Francesca Lia Block
He had fallen head over heels for a devil with blue eyes and waist-length blonde hair and a body that would tempt a man into sin and death.
~ Francine Rivers
Then birds flew up like a shower of sparks, I followed them with my eyes and saw how they rose in a single breath, until they seemed no longer to be rising but I to be falling...
~ Franz Kafka
How the snow falls in the north! Flake on flake falling incessantly, until the small dingles are almost on a level with the uplands. It throws itself on the leaves of autumn, and holds them down in security from the strongest winds.
~ W. H. Davies
The University of Nebraska says that elderly people that drink beer or wine at least four times a week have the highest bone density. They need it - they're the ones falling down the most.
~ Jay Leno
I grew up riding horses and one of the most important things I learned was that when you fall off, you have to get right back up in the saddle.
~ Katie Hill