Fall Quotes

We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we write our new creation, and every night it is blotted out forever; and of what use is it to say to audience or to critic, "Ah, but you should have seen me last Tuesday?

Jules Renard

Character is made by what you stand for; reputation by what you fall for.

Robert Quillen

A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts from his deepest convictions. Then, whatever the situation he may be in, he always knows what he must say and do. He may fall, but he cannot bring shame upon himself or his causes.

Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin

Large schools tend to be anonymous places, places where teachers and students are little known to each other. The anonymity often breeds apathy or alienation; many kids fall through the cracks.

Thomas Toch

Wilderness designations should not be the result of a quid pro quo. They should rise or fall on their own merits.

Nick Rahall

I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree.† Indeed, unless the billboards fall I'll never see a tree at all.

Ogden Nash†

When all the dangerous cliffs are fenced off, all the trees that might fall on people are cut down,all of the insects that bite are poisoned... and all of the grizzlies are dead because they are occasionally dangerous, the wilderness will not be made safe. Rather, the safety will have destroyed the wilderness.

R. Yorke Edwards

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event.† You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?

J.B. Priestley

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

Robert Hunter

May their weapons fall from their (hands), may they be unable to lay the arrow on (the bow)! And then (our) arrows shall smite them, badly frightened, in their vital members

Atharva Veda

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

E.B. White

If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.

Flavia Weedn

The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

Bible

When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness

James Allen

Each time we bring to routine activities an awareness of "now," we raise our vibratory frequency and cause the freshness of the moment to fall upon us.

Dr. Michael Beckwith