Quotes About Fall

In the summertime, it's always hard to introduce new series; everyone's ready for that in the fall.

And we, who have always thought of happiness as rising , would feel the emotion that almost overwhelms us whenever a happy thing falls .

Biblical religion . . . views the whole course of history as a movement from a garden to a city, and it fundamentally affirms that movement. . . . Redemption in Jesus Christ reaches just as far as the fall.

God subjected the whole creation to frustration by putting the Curse not only on mankind but also on the earth (Genesis 3:17). Why? Because human beings and the earth are inseparably linked. And as together we fell, together we shall rise.

And if it's around October twentieth and everything smoky-smelling and the sky orange and ash gray at twilight, it seems Halloween will never come in a fall of broomsticks and a soft flap of bed-sheets around corners.

Like a fall of timber he chopped himself to bed.

An autumn leaf, very crisp, fell somewhere in the dark. But it was only the page of a book, turning.

And the sense of security, even the most warranted, is a bad councillor.  It is the sense which, like that exaggerated feeling of well-being ominous of the coming on of madness, precedes the swift fall of disaster. 

Looking back at that belief during hearings this fall on Capitol Hill, Alan Greenspan said out loud, "I have found a flaw." Congressman Henry Waxman pushed him, responding, "In other words, you found that your view of the world, your ideology, was not right; it wasn't working." "Absolutely, precisely," Greenspan said.

It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him.

It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian say the chaplain he fell madly in love with him.

So you fell out of the sky, too? the Little Prince asked the pilot who tells the story, and I thought yes, I'd fallen out of the sky, too, but there was no possible testimony of my fall, there was no black box that anybody could consult, nor was there any black box of Ricardo Laverde's fall, human lives don't have these technological luxuries to fall back on.

[T]hat old September feeling... of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air.... Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year's mistakes and failures had been wiped clean by summer.

It is a country to breed mystical people, egocentric people, perhaps poetic people. But not humble ones…Puny you may feel there, and vulnerable, but not unnoticed. This is a land to mark the sparrow's fall

It isn't stress that makes us fall - it's how we respond to stressful events.

if they make me watch that movie one more time, I will fall down on my knees and beg for mercy

What do you think you're doing?" she asks, hands on her hips. Her lips quiver a bit as she speaks, though, and I get the distinct impression she's trying not to laugh. I sigh, used to being falsely accused of wrongdoing by my naturally suspicious parents. "I fell." I attempt to shrug my shoulders, but they don't move. "And now I'm stuck," I add.

Let's not fall for the outcome bias. This was a stupid decision even though it worked out well.

The clocks are all turned forward from Funny Time to Right Time. I always remember, "Spring back or Fall in."

One clue, which applies to virtually all species and can be very useful in late summer and fall, is that juveniles, having just fledged, are then in very uniform fresh plumage, while adults are actively molting or showing a mixture of old and new plumage.

Signer of the Constitution Alexander Hamilton, like so many others, viewed religious and civil liberties as inseparable, pointing out: Remember: civil and religious liberties always go together; if the foundation of the one be sapped, the other will fall.31

The time King spent at Tattnall Prison would change political history. It was the fall of 1960 and John Kennedy and Richard Nixon were locked in a tight battle for the presidency.

Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929.

Part of the reason that Rome fell is simply that it had expanded beyond the scale at which the economies of violence could be maintained. The cost of garrisoning the empire's far-flung borders exceeded the economic advantages that an ancient agricultural economy could support. The burden of taxation and regulation required to finance the military effort rose to exceed the carrying capacity of the economy. Corruption became endemic.