Falling Quotes

• Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

  

  Confucius
  • Glory
  • Falling
  • Rising

• The most painful thing was falling off the stage in Sydney, Australia on the last song of the set, 'Sugar.' I was bruised all over. I don't know how the guitar survived, much less me.

  

  Rick Savage Def Leppard
  • Stage
  • Guitar
  • Painful

• Falling on your face when you’re young and good looking is one thing, but when you’re an old man it can be quite humiliating.

  

  Paul Westerberg The Replacements
  • Falling
  • Old Man
  • Humiliating

• Don't be down on that you're not up on.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • Up
  • Falling
  • Upstairs

• Falling in love is a completely transcendent experience. It's like eating pizza-flavored ice cream

  

  Mike Birbiglia
  • Eating
  • Cream
  • Transcendent

• From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,- A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropp'd from the Zenith like a falling star.

  

  John Milton
  • Star
  • Falling
  • Zenith

• You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don't take life for granted any more. I'm really glad to be here.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • People
  • Falling
  • Flies

• There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling leaves and remember that it is enough to be taken care of by myself.

  

  Brian Andreas
  • Words
  • Comfort
  • Leaves

• I will beg, will take to my knees, will listen to snow stroking air, a sky of gasps, will open my mouth, swallow, somewhere else the sky is falling, somewhere else it gets back up.

  

  Bob Hicok
  • Sky
  • Falling
  • Knees

• Then he kissed her so deeply and so completely that she felt like she was falling, floating, spiraling down, down, down, like Alice in Wonderland.

  

  Liane Moriarty
  • She
  • Floating
  • Alice in Wonderland

• Whenever the horse stopped (which it did very often), he fell off in front; and, whenever it went on again (which it generally did rather suddenly), he fell off behind. Otherwise he kept on pretty well, except that he had a habit of now and then falling off sideways; and, as he generally did this on the side on which Alice was walking, she soon found that it was the best plan not to walk quite close to the horse.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Horse
  • Falling
  • Alice

• A withered maple leaf has left its branch and is falling to the ground; its movements resemble those of a butterfly in flight. Isn't it strange? The saddest and deadest of things is yet so like the gayest and most vital of creatures?

  

  Ivan Turgenev
  • Creatures
  • Butterfly
  • Leaf

• There's nightingales calling, shooting stars falling, like jewels in the rain.

  

  David Gray
  • Stars
  • Rain
  • Nightingales

• The people who come out on top in music business have persistence. It is key! Fall down seven times; stand up eight. It takes a lot of courage and an unwavering belief in yourself and your abilities.

  

  Wendy Starland
  • People
  • Business
  • Fall

• Closeness to another person is like a fear of falling off a building to me. It's really, like, physically painful, and it's a brand of crazy I don't appreciate having.

  

  Adam Duritz Matt Malley
  • Fear
  • Appreciate
  • Falling

• The ball was just lifted. He got it up, got underneath it and took it. The thing about falling behind on Loretta, you fall behind 2-0, with a guy on first, I've got to get at least a strike there. He went swinging and we paid for it.

  

  Eddie Guardado
  • Ball
  • Falling
  • Swinging

• If I were you I'd promise to live life for all it's worth, take all you've been given and leave your mark upon this Earth. Trust your heart to show you everything you need...and if you were you, I'd fall in love with me.

  

  Floyd Elliot Wray
  • Promise
  • Shows
  • Given

• You get used to falling in love with people and having to let them go.

  

  Mireille Enos
  • People
  • Used
  • Falling

• When you're stretching yourself, as a role like 'Blue Jasmine' did for me, you risk falling flat on your face.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Risk
  • Yourself
  • Face

• All around me I hear cries. And bombs are falling from the skies. Can’t you help me save my life?

  

  Beatrice Miller
  • Help
  • Cries
  • Save A Life

• You know that every bead of sweat falling off your head, every weight you've pumped - the history of that is all in your eyes.

  

  Gerard Butler
  • Weight
  • Sweat
  • Beads

• Silently, like thoughts that come and go, the snowflakes fall, each one a gem.

  

  William Hamilton Gibson
  • Winter
  • Snowflake
  • Illustrators

• You know, once you've had that guitar up so loud on the stage, where you can lean back and volume will stop you from falling backward, that's a hard drug to kick.

  

  David Gilmour Pink Floyd
  • Drug
  • Stage
  • Guitar

• I guess the first screenplay of mine that was done was 'Falling in Love' with Robert DeNiro and Meryl Streep.

  

  Michael Cristofer
  • Guess
  • Mine
  • Screenplay

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