Fall Quotes - Page 332

Later when I thought of the chickens, one of those rare pale blue eggs rose up into my throat. The chickens had been part of our family, and the egg in my throat was the feeling of something missing. It was hard and smooth and heavy, but also so fragile it might break and make me cry. It was the feeling of growing out of a favorite shirt, milk spilled on the floor, the last bit of honey in the jar, falling apple blossoms. It was the lump in the throat behind everything beautiful in life.

Housework comes first, so girls often fall behind in school. Global statistics show that it's increasingly girls, not boys, who don't know how to read.

You've been quiet these past days," Trevanion said. "Are you going to tell me what the...exchange of words was about?" "Who said there was an exchange of words?" Finnikin asked with irritation. "When a woman says 'I hope you fall under your horse' and 'catch your death, then see if I grieve you,'" Perri said, "then there's been an exchange of words." Finnikin glared at him. "In my humble opinion.

Do you think I don't want him to be gone more than you do? I do. Because I need to know that I can still breathe properly when he's not around. If something happens to him, I have to know that I won't fall apart.

Josie, life is not a Mills and Boon book. People fall out of love. People disappoint other people and they find it very hard to forgive.

She made a sound of regret. ‘We come second, you and I, Luc-ien,’ she said. ‘Our allegiance is always to our kingdoms. Without that allegiance, our people would fall.’ She placed her head back against his chest and he felt her tears. ‘This is not our time.’ ‘But that will never mean I love you less,’ he said.

To quit religion is to start walking in the space! Don't be afraid, you don't fall into the void, because you can hold onto God and science!

Stumble is worse than falling, because stumble is not as instructive as the falling!

If you can remain as an atheist in a falling plane, then it means you are a real atheist!

When you rise quickly like a swallow, you must keep in mind that you may also fall fast like a stone!

In every fall, clever man discovers the secrets of further rising!

There are some moments in man's life that looking back might cause him fall into the precipice! At those moments, man must just look forward!

On the road to success, even little stones may cause you fall down! If you are not serious and careful, forget about reaching your target!

A man who smiles when he falls gives the Devil a good slap!

When your enemy falls to the ground, help him to get up! Never let a man in that condition stay on the ground! To help the weak, be it enemy, be it rival, is an honour for you!

What a miserable creature man is that he prays in fear to the skies and begs help from the unknown every time he falls down to the ground!

Sometimes it is good to fall down so that we can see whether we honourably get up or disgracefully turn into a miserable reptile!

All we do is to rise and to fall; and in between these two activities, we sleep!

I'm not much like my mother; that role falls to my brothers, who have more of her blithe and freewheeling spirit.

Suddenly it was fall, the season of death, the anniversary of things-going-to-hell.

It's all too easy when talking about female gymnasts to fall into the trap of infantilizing them, spending more time worrying more about female vulnerability than we do celebrating female strength.

She met the magus's stunned look with a smile. "The Thieves of Eddis have always been uncomfortable allies to the throne, Magus. There is the niggling fear that if you fall out with a Thief, he might see it as his right and responsibility to remove you. There are some checks, of course. There is only ever one Thief. They are prohibited from owning any property. Their training inevitably generates the isolation that makes them independent, but also keeps them from forming alliances that might become threats to the throne. It is not the folly you might think.

You called me a natural con artist and asked me what other secrets I was hiding. I didn't answer because I already knew, in some deep, primal way, what furtive truth you were referring to: That I was destined to fall in love with you.

Love may have the longest arms, but it can still fall short of an embrace.

We have made it impossible for children to fall very far—and in so doing, we have robbed them of the joys of climbing high.