Fell Quotes

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today. (H. G. Wells)
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall. View quote
Helen Garner
He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. View quote
Anthony Powell
And the final event to himself Mr. Burke has been, that, as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick. View quote
Thomas Paine
The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness. View quote
Jack Kerouac
How many times it thundered before Franklin took the hint How many apples fell on Newton's head before he took the hint Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint. View quote
Robert Frost
Have I not walked without an upward look Of caution under stars that very well Might not have missed me when they shot and fell It was a risk I had to takeand took. View quote
Robert Frost
All night have the roses heard The flute, violin, bassoon All night has the casement jessamine stirred To the dancers dancing in tune Till a silence fell with the waking bird, And a hush with the setting moon. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellow'd long, Even wonder'd at, because he dropp'd no sooner. Fate seem'd to wind him up for fourscore years, Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more Till like a clock worn out with eating time, The wheels of weary life at last stood still. View quote
John Dryden
It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents - except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness. View quote
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That's what inspired the 'Off to the Races' melodies. That's one of the times when you're feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive. View quote
Lana Del Rey
Men fell in love with Gilda, but they wake up with me. View quote
Rita Hayworth
I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom. View quote
Heinrich Heine
And when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet whence he blew Soul-animating strains,alas too few. View quote
William Wordsworth
As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep; Slowly, and then all at once. View quote
John Green (author)
Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold. View quote
Theodore Parker
That when a man fell into his anecdotage, it was a sign for him to retire. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
This was the time in her life that she fell upon booksas the only door out of her cell. They became half her world. (Michael Ondaatje)
I never thought I was a great mom. I always worked. I fell in love with my children as they got older. View quote
Marla Gibbs
You whispered my full name and we fell asleep in each other's arms and I remember how the next morning you were gone, completely gone, and nothing in my bed or the house could have proven otherwise. View quote
Junot Diaz
I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't about adulation. It was being up there playing. View quote
Charlie Watts
I'd come out to Los Angeles for a vacation to see a friend and just fell in love with it. View quote
Claire Forlani