Cliffs Quotes

• Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Water, Wave

  Marcus Aurelius (1945). “Marcus Aurelius and His Times”

  37 Copy quote

  Show source

• Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

  Ray Bradbury

  Courage, Humor, Greatness

  Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller (2012). “Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews”, p.215, Melville House

  106 Copy quote

  Show source

• Hills tell old stories.  Cliffs are poets with harps.

  George MacKay

  Stories, Hills, Poet

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Life is a walk to the edge of a cliff. Every day we get a step nearer and what lies over the brink, no one can tell.

  Deepak Chopra

  Lying, Steps, Life Is

  12 Copy quote

• The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.

  Patrick Warburton

  Jumping, Risk, Chance

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  49 Copy quote

  Show source

• You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

  Ray Bradbury

  Confidence, Courage, Travel

  20 Copy quote

• The ragged cliff has thousand faces in a thousand hours.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Faces, Hours, Thousand

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert J. Von Frank (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry”, p.115, Harvard University Press

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Dive today from the cliff of what you know into what you can't know.

  Rumi

  Today, Knows

  11 Copy quote

• We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Life, Beautiful, Faith

  Kurt Vonnegut (2016). “If This Isn't Nice What Is? (Much) Expanded Second Edition: The Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live By”, p.131, RosettaBooks

  31 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's too late to change your mind after you've jumped off the cliff.

  Robert Jordan

  Mind, Too Late, Late

  Robert Jordan, Harriet McDougal, Alan Romanczuk, Maria Simons (2015). “The Wheel of Time Companion: The People, Places and History of the Bestselling Series”, p.421, Macmillan

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• You can stand on the cliff of my heart and shout nothing but ‘ugly’ through me. I promise all I will echo back is ‘Beauty, beauty, you have always been beauty

  Andrea Gibson

  Heart, Echoes, Promise

  30 Copy quote

• The wild sea roars and lashes the granite cliffs below,And round the misty islets the loud strong tempests blow.

  Mary Howitt

  Strong, Blow, Sea

  Mary Botham Howitt (1847). “Ballads and Other Poems”, p.238

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ignorantly is how we all fall in love; for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that cliff in hope of a soft landing. Nor is it always soft; but still, without that leap nobody comes to life.

  Salman Rushdie

  Love, Fall, Eye

  Salman Rushdie (2011). “The Moor's Last Sigh”, p.289, Random House

  33 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've succeeded as far as I'm concerned - I don't feel that I have any cliffs I could fall over anytime soon.

  Shania Twain

  Fall, Feels, Concerned

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom.

  Jodi Picoult

  Trust, Faith, Jumping

  Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance”, p.458, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I live through risk. Without risk there is no art. You should always be on the edge of a cliff about to fall down and break your neck.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Art, Fall, Risk

  17 Copy quote

• He who climbs a cliff may die on the cliff, so what? Always a risk-taker by nature, now I became one by intent.

  Ruth Park

  Risk, May, Climbs

  8 Copy quote

• For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Happiness, Spring, Flower

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1974). “Locked rooms and open doors”, Not Avail

  31 Copy quote

  Show source

• Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.

  Sara Teasdale

  Life, Beautiful, Nature

  Sara Teasdale (1917). “Love Songs”

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.

  Ray Bradbury

  Balance, Fiction, Fantasy

  Introduction to "The Circus of Dr. Lao" by Charles G. Finney, 1956.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you agree to collaborate, you agree to jump off a cliff holding hands with everyone, hoping the resourcefulness of each will insure that you all land on your feet.

  Frank Gehry

  Hands, Land, Feet

  "'Available Light' Interviews: Frank Gehry, Lucinda Childs, and John Adams". Interview with Julie Lazar, www.kcet.org.

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair... or go into business. You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

  Annie Dillard

  Wings, Way, Affair

  35 Copy quote

• I don't think about what I do. I do it. That's Buddhism. I jump off the cliff and build my wings on the way down.

  Ray Bradbury

  Buddhism, Thinking, Wings

  "Sci-fi legend Ray Bradbury on God, 'monsters and angels'" by John Blake, CNN: Living, August 02, 2010.

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• When politics and religion are intermingled, a people is suffused with a sense of invulnerability, and gathering speed in their forward charge, they fail to see the cliff ahead of them

  Frank Herbert

  People, Gathering, Failing

  46 Copy quote

• All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in my sleep I could hear the steady roar of the passing army.

  Richard Harding Davis

  Sleep, Army, Night

  Richard Harding Davis (2014). “With the Allies”, p.17, Read Books Ltd

  18 Copy quote

  Show source