Drop Quotes - page 2

The accusing spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in and the recording angel as he wrote it down dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever. (Laurence Sterne)
When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless. View quote
Willa Cather
Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time. View quote
Ani DiFranco
When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us. View quote
Bell hooks
Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it We are happy now because God wills it. View quote
James Russell Lowell
The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing. View quote
William Wordsworth
A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs The world uncertain comes and goes, The lover rooted stays. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. View quote
Lord Byron
Over the next two years UNICEF will focus on improving access to and the quality of education to provide children who have dropped out of school or who work during school hours the opportunity to gain a formal education! View quote
Roger Moore
The main thing is dancing, and before it withers away from my body, I will keep dancing till the last moment, the last drop. View quote
Rudolf Nureyev
Not every man remembers the name of the cow which supplied him with each drop of milk he has drunk. (Shmuel Yosef Agnon)
Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original. View quote
Carl Hiaasen
The youngest children have a great capacity for empathy and altruism. There's a recent study that shows even 14-month-olds will climb across a bunch of cushions and go across a room to give you a pen if you drop one. View quote
Alison Gopnik
Working mothers' laughter comes hardest when our double life is revealed for what it is: a juggling act in which the balls can drop at any time, invariably on our own head. View quote
Allison Pearson
I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead. View quote
Cesar Romero
I always figure I have this tree and there's always some green fruit that's not ready to pick or blossoms that are ready to flower; there are always some ready to drop off too. View quote
Graeme Murphy
A rock'n'roll band needs to be able to get under people's skin. You should be able to clear the room at the drop of a hat. View quote
Paul Westerberg
Crows are incredibly smart. They can be taught five things on the drop. View quote
Robbie Coltraine
Hit a home run - put your head down, drop the bat, run around the bases, because the name on the front is more - a lot more important than the name on the back. View quote
Ryne Sandberg
I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided whether there will be anybody to understand their works in twenty years' time. View quote
Zoltan Kodaly
For it is only by forgetting that we ever really drop the thread of time and approach the experience of living in the present moment, so elusive in ordinary hours. (Michael Pollan)
Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic. View quote
Indira Gandhi
I have the consolation to reflect that during the period of my administration not a drop of the blood of a single fellow citizen was shed by the sword of war or of the law. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
All kids draw and write poetry and everything, and some of us last until we're about eighteen, but most drop off at about twelve when some guy comes up and says, "You're no good." That's all we get told all our lives. "You haven't got the ability. You're a cobbler." It happened to all of us, but if somebody had told me all my life, "Yeah, you're a great artist," I would have been a more secure person. View quote
John Lennon
Don't believe that jazz about there's nothing you can do, "turn on and drop out, man" - because you've got to turn on and drop in, or they're going to drop all over you. View quote
John Lennon