Quotes About Fall

the fallen leaves in the forest seemed to make even the ground glow and burn with light

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

society had collapsed.

Like a fruit hidden among its leaves, which has grown and ripened unobserved by man, until it falls of its own accord, there came upon us one night the kitchen-maid's confinement.

Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit

They themselves ordained their Fall. The first sort by their own suggestion fell Self-tempted, self-depraved.

But listen not to his temptations, warn Thy weaker. Let it profit thee to have heard, By terrible example, the reward Of disobedience. Firm they might have stood, Yet fell. Remember, and fear to transgress.

Nor can I think that God, Creator wise, Though threatning, will in earnest so destroy Us his prime Creatures, dignifi'd so high, Set over all his Works, which in our Fall, For us created, needs with us must faile

But hard be hardened, blind be blinded more, that they may stumble on, and deeper fall

Thus they in mutual accusation spent The fruitless hours, but neither self—condemning; And of their vain contest' appeared no end. (The closing lines of Book Nine, which illuminates The Fall.)

I was skateboarding on the levee and lost my edges," she said. "You were skateboarding?" She turned and looked at him and shook her head in exasperation: "No, you dummy, I fell. On the ice. On the sidewalk. Like old people do." Virgil: "Oh." She shook her head again. "Jesus wept.

I'll do that," Kidd said. "Why was Sandra's age important?" "Think about it for one second," Lucas said. Kidd thought about it for one second, then said, "Ah. She's an adult now. You can twist her arm until it falls off, and nobody can tell you to quit." "Perzactly," Lucas said. "And that's what I'm going to do . . . if that's what it takes.

Only God sees the sparrow fall, but even God doesn't do anything about it.

And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child's world in never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing.

What is an editor but a cross between a fall guy and a father figure? arthur koestler

In the fall term of 1933-34 I was on my family farm in Maine.

He raised his brows. "You're drunk." "Am not!" He gave me a bland look. "A drunk's famous last words before they fall flat on their face.

My father was a very successful businessman, but he was ruined in the stock market crash. A big stockbroker jumped out the window and fell on his pushcart.

One forgets the fear of heights when one cannot fall

Games will be played, hearts will be broken, tears will fall, people will change and rumors will be spread. But life will always go on.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

A new day with new opportunities for all equally. Your choices determine your rise and fall.

I've realized that life is indeed full of contradictions. Sometimes its crazy to be sane.You need to fall to fly. People suffer because you care.You have to unlearn to know the lesson. You have to give up because you are strong.You have to be wrong to make things right.Nonetheless, life's complexities are also life's source of beauty. We should cry to laugh again, fall apart to be whole again, and get hurt to love again.

you are going to find that the heights you've attained make for a long fall if you don't understand the mountain.