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Quotes About Falls

Health is only part of the overall picture for aging gracefully. You also need to be fit; you need muscles for movement, to keep your bones strong and protect you from falls, to burn body fat, and avoid being overweight.
~ Philip Maffetone
I was in the utmost astonishment, and roared so loud that they all ran back in a fright; and some of them, as I was afterwards told, were hurt with the falls they got by leaping from my sides upon the ground. However, they soon returned
~ Jonathan Swift
Niagara Falls Power Company chose to go with AC current to feed the industry of Buffalo, which became briefly known as the electric city of the future.
~ A.A. Gill
This was a normal town once, and we were normal people. Most of us worked at the plastics factory on the outskirts of town. Then one day there was an accident... something escaped from the factory, a yellow gas. It floated over the town so fast that we didn't see it, didn't realize... and then it was too late, and Dark Falls wasn't a normal town anymore.
~ R.L. Stine
With him died a story That will not be retold: How, forsaking glory, Achilles grows old While Hector dusts his trophies Behind high walls- For in his unsung strophes Troy never falls
~ R.S. Gwynn
He understood the primitive, malevolent spell of The Falls: he was beginning to feel again the sinister attraction he'd felt years ago, as an adolescent, when his emotions were rawer, closer to the surface. Those feelings of dissolution, loss, panic, very like the sensation of falling in love against one's will. The Falls! You can't believe it can kill you. When it is pure spirit. After
~ Joyce Carol Oates
And still the grossest iridescence of oceanHowls hoo and rises and howls hoo and falls.
~ Wallace Stevens
He had begun to accept the background noise of the falls was no natural phenomenon but rather the thundering tears of gods.
~ Dave Warner
One thing I've learned about grief: it's like a creditor's bill. You can put off paying, but it eventually falls due, and exacts usurious interest.
~ Rachel Hartman
To bad as well as good, to all, A generous man compassion shows; On earth no mortal lives, he knows, Who does not oft through weakness fall.
~ Ramayana
The cold and crystal clear water, it falls gently on the sleeper, cleansing the mind and soothing the soul...
~ El Fuego
We took the parkway to Linville Falls, 221 to Marion, then I-40 here. The Alleluia Highway, we decided to call it.
~ Jan Karon
In 1841 two American engineers calculated the energy available from the falls for turning waterwheels at 4.5 million horsepower. The US Army Corps of Engineers, surveying the Great Lakes in 1868, estimated Niagara's total available energy as about 6 million horsepower
~ Richard Rhodes
That summer rain I mean that is so quiet and matter of fact and falls straight down like a curtain. Now
~ Elizabeth Berg
A king of a kingdom no one fucking knows about! I'm the tree in the forest that silently falls--when no one is around to be crushed! [Lothaire, Enemy of Old]
~ Kresley Cole
The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that's about it.
~ Arthur Smith
When I came in, Westerns were the big thing, so I did horse falls, transfers, bulldogs, big fights. That's where you could really shine if you were really good at it. But then all the Westerns stopped, and I was capable of doing car stunts, motorcycle stunts and high falls. I could do it all.
~ Hal Needham
I loved getting to Chagrin Falls, being by the falls; what a cute place it is.
~ Ed Asner
a world in which no sparrow falls unknown, but-so much for the neatness of our diagrams-it is the Father's will that sparrows fall.
~ Robert Farrar Capon
Mad as the moon when Merlin falls.
~ Robin Williamson
There be many shapes of mystery; And many things God brings to be, Past hope or fear. And the end men looked for cometh not, And a path is there where no man thought. So hath it fallen here.
~ Euripides
Most economists, when modeling market behavior, tend to sweep major fluctuations under the rug and assume they are anomalies. What I have found is that major rises and falls in prices are actually inevitable.
~ Benoit Mandelbrot
Imagination, however high it flies, Falls short, however hard it tries. But spirits fit to see deeply invest In what is boundless a boundless trust.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Night falls fast. Today is in the past.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay