Falling Down Quotes - Page 8

• I explained we lost the porch to the flood. Father hasn't gotten around to rebuilding it, although he's quite a good carpenter. He says if Jesus was a carpenter, its good enough for a clergyman. But I don't remember that Jesus let his house fall down.

  Franny Billingsley

  Jesus, Father, Fall

  Franny Billingsley (2011). “Chime”, p.20, Penguin

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• I've always been so apathetic. I figured, OK, maybe the world is going to fall down around me. Now I want to make a better world... that's motherhood.

  Cass Elliot

  Fall, Motherhood, World

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• After a day on Mykines, I changed my mind about life not going on. A sort of life was going on, beating with a reasonalbe version of a pulse, but that life consisted for the most part of travelers like myself. There were maybe a dozen of us - one third of the island's population. Our tribe could only increase as the Mykines tribe dwindled away, a few falling down steps, most simply emigrating, until there would be, sad to say, only our peripatetic selves. We were the future of all places condemned by remoteness to a lingering, photogenic death.

  Lawrence Millman

  Fall, Islands, Self

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• I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin.

  Manfred von Richthofen

  Fall, Swag, Skins

  Manfred von Richthofen (2009). “The Red Baron”, p.130, BoD – Books on Demand

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• When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.

  Pliny the Elder

  Fall, Desert, Building

  'Historia Naturalis' bk. 8, ch. 103

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• It wasn't until I hung out with Dead Prez and understood how to make, you know, raps with a message sound cool that I was able to just write "All Falls Down" in 15 minutes.

  Kanye West

  Rap, Fall, Writing

  "Behind Kanye’s Mask". Interview with Jon Caramanica, www.nytimes.com. June 11, 2013.

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• Humor is falling downstairs if you do it in the act of telling your wife not to.

  Fougasse

  Fall, Humor, Wife

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• I never believed 9/11, because I had engineering training at GA Tech, and I could tell when a building is being blown up by explosives. Any fool can look at those films and see the buildings aren't falling down, they're blowing up.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Fall, Engineering, Training

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• Life is not about how many times you fall down. It's about how many times you get back up.

  Jaime Escalante

  Fall, Life Is, Get Back

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• Maybe tomorrow is counting on me
  To learn my lessons today
  I'll start by taking a step at a time
  And stop throwing my blessings away
  I'll get myself up and I'll brush myself off
  And take back some of the pride that I've lost
  'Cause you can't always keep your feet on the ground
  I guess we all learn the hard way and we all fall down

  Bekka Bramlett

  Song, Fall, Pride

  Song: We All Fall Down

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• The Good Lord Bird don't run in a flock. He Flies alone. You know why? He's searching. Looking for the right tree. And when he sees that tree, that dead tree that's taking all the nutrition and good things from the forest floor. He goes out and he gnaws at it, and he gnaws at it till the thing gets tired and it falls down. And the dirt from it raises other trees. It gives them good things to eat. It makes 'em strong. Gives 'em life. And the circle goes 'round.

  James McBride

  Running, Strong, Fall

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• Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it...If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, there is always another chance for you. And supposing you have tried and failed again and again, you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.

  Mary Pickford

  Mistake, Fall, New Day

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• I learned to fall down early in life - I was like six - because I realized it was a way to make girls laugh.

  Matthew Perry

  Girl, Fall, Laughing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is everything I thought it would be; being the Olympic champion, it definitely is an amazing feeling. And I give all the glory to God. It's kind of a win-win situation. The glory goes up to him and the blessings fall down on me.
  Let all that I am praise the LORD; may I never forget the good things He does for me.

  Gabby Douglas

  Fall, Blessing, Winning

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• It's kind of a win-win situation. The glory goes up to Him and the blessings fall down on me.

  Gabby Douglas

  Fall, Blessing, Winning

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• I don't have a drinking problem. I drink. I get drunk. I fall down, no problem.

  George Burns

  Funny, Drinking, Fall

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• If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.

  Jack Canfield

  Fall, Tree, Matter

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• Programs to demonstrate Darwinian evolution are akin to a pinball machine. The steel ball bounces around differently every time but eventually falls down the little hole behind the flippers.

  Robert J. Marks II

  Fall, Steel, Balls

  "Darwin as the Pinball Wizard: Talking Probability with Robert Marks". Interview with Robert Crowther of the pro-intelligent design Discovery Institute, March 3, 2010.

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• I'm not a panic guy. I don't do that. Can't. When you're a leader, you can never panic, no matter what's happening. The building could be falling down. Fire could be going all places. Somebody has to make a decision on how to get out.

  Herman Edwards

  Fall, Fire, Leader

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• Every time you lose an animal, it's like losing a brick from the house. Pretty soon the house just falls down, you know?

  Bindi Irwin

  Fall, Animal, House

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• Faith can move mountains but let them happily fall down on the heads of other people. What's the point in moving mountains when it's so simple to climb over them?

  Boris Vian

  Moving, Fall, Simple

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• I can make your tears fall down like the showers that are British.

  Louis Tomlinson

  Fall, Tears, British

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• It doesn't matter if you fall down, it's whether you get back up.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Fall, Matter

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• I spent a lot of years just learning my craft and falling down in front of the camera.

  Thomas Jane

  Falling In Love, Years, Cameras

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. February 20, 2004.

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• Falling down became second nature and it really didn't bother me.

  Nancy Kerrigan

  Sports, Falling In Love, Bother

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