The Fall Quotes

She tells her love while half asleep, In the dark hours, With half-words whispered low: As Earth stirs in her winter sleep And puts out grass and flowers Despite the snow, Despite the falling snow.

There is something tenderly appropriate in the serene death of the old. Nothing is more touching than the death of the young, the strong.

Here a little child I stand, Heaving up my either hand; Cold as paddocks though they be, Here I lift them up to Thee, for a benison to fall on our meat, and on us all. Amen.

Before man's fall the rose was born,St. Ambrose says, without the thorn;But for man's fault then was the thornWithout the fragrant rose-bud born; But ne'er the rose without the thorn.

Learn this of me, where'er thy lot doth fall, Short lot, or not, to be content with all.

You who choose to lead must follow. But if you fall, you fall alone.

Programs to demonstrate Darwinian evolution are akin to a pinball machine. The steel ball bounces around differently every time but eventually falls down the little hole behind the flippers.

The leaf lives its appointed time, and does not struggle against the wind that carries it away. The leaf does no harm, and finally falls to nourish new leaves. So it should be with all men and women.

It is almost a general rule that nations do not decline gradually. Instead they fall abruptly from their greatest heights.

I think it's never mono-causal why you fall in love with something that you want to do.

In fall-orbed glory, yonder moon divine, Rolls through the dark blue depths.

Men who like women rarely fall in love.

But things don't just fall apart. People break them.

Imagine how dull life would be if variables assessed for admission to a graduate program really did predict who would succeed and who would fall. Life would be intolerable - no hope, no challenge

What a terrible thing it would be to be the Pope! What unthinkable responsibilities to fall on your shoulders at an advanced age! No privacy. No seclusion. No sin.

When you are in the prayer room you forget about the outside world and fall into a Christian rock coma, and nothing else seems to matter.

Movies are magical. Sometimes it just works, it catalyzes, and everything falls into place, and no one knows exactly how or why.

Collaborating with someone who doesn't understand your language nor you theirs stretches you open even wider, into a sort of very large free fall.

If you just take one foot in front of the other without any protection, you may end up falling off the fence.

I battle to fall asleep at night. My mind races every other night. I have always been like this, for as long as I can reminder.

When feminism falls short of our expectations, we decide the problem is with feminism rather than with the flawed people who act in the name of the movement.

Fall down nine times, get up ten.

What stands if freedom fall?

My idea of quality is my own idea of quality. What I do and what I want to do next is my business. The next thing I fall in love with might be what you think is rubbish.

Sit!' -Kagome (to InuYasha and he falls.)

In our society, in our culture, we love to build people up. We love to build the pedestal, and we love to put 'em up there on it, and then we can't wait for the day they fall off of it.

You're falling into the trap of believing everything that's in the political handbook, and at the top of the list it says you can't do anything without money. [Donald] Trump has.

Most of the new jobs that people are getting are part time because of Obamacare. Obamacare is falling out exactly as it was designed.

What sweeter words can fall on the human ear? It's going to be May all week long.

The best thing you can do is fall in love. My life has been changed by falling in love.

For me happiness occurs arbitrarily: a moment of eye contact on a bus, where all at once you fall in love; or a frozen second in a park where it's enough that there are trees in the world.

Before redeye flights, I drink copious amounts of herbal brews to help me relax and fall asleep after takeoff.

I would sooner be prime minister of the moon than run another marathon. I've been really lucky. I didn't have any toenails fall off or anything disgusting like that. I still have all three nipples.

I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.

When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue's sake.

If you're not moving forward, you're falling back.

The high mountains are barren, but the low valleys are covered over with corn; and accordingly the showers of God's grace fall into lowly hearts and humble souls.

There's a very fine line between political comedian and activist, and I don't really think I fall over into the activist category.

You cried for night - it falls. Now cry in darkness.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

Ease, a neutral state between pain and pleasure ... if it is not rising into pleasure will be falling towards pain.

The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on innocence and gentleness.

Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

Mine be a cot beside the hill; A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear; A willowy brook, that turns a mill, With many a fall shall linger near.

Katy skipped over, her low-rise jeans threatening to fall off her skinny hips. With some girls, that was a sexy look. With Katy, it made you nervous.

Some people don't know how to fall in love, like not knowing how to swim. They panic first when they jump in. Then they figure it out.

That's the fairy tale. You meet, you fall in love, you kiss, and neither of you is revolted by it. You get married and have kids and live happily ever after.

People fall in love all the time. And it's not always with the right people. And it's not always reciprocated.

The chances we take, knowing no better than to fall or to stand back and hold ourselves in... protecting our hearts with the tightest of grips.

And for one second, it was like I could feel the timing clicking together, finally pieces falling into place.