Falling Off Quotes

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  If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.

  Lance Armstrong

  Sports, Football, Fall

  Lance Armstrong (2010). “Every Second Counts”, p.66, Random House

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  A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Love, Relationship, Anniversary

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.32, BookBaby

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• Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.

  Backseat Goodbye

  Nature, Fall, Autumn

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• Swinging on delicate hinges the autumn leaf almost off the stem.

  Jack Kerouac

  Fall, Autumn, Leafs

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• Corn wind in the fall, come off the black lands, come off the whisper of the silk hangers, the lap of the flat spear leaves.

  Carl Sandburg

  Fall, Autumn, Wind

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.281, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let them do it, and not say anything. If they fall off, they fall off, but it's bad if you say anything.

  J. D. Salinger

  Fall, Kids, Say Anything

  "The Catcher in the Rye". Book by J. D. Salinger, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 16, 1951.

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• While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

  John Muir

  Peace, Nature, Fall

  Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

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• A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy.

  Robert Jordan

  Fall, Men, Worst Enemy

  Robert Jordan (2010). “Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.250, Macmillan

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• I'm going to open another vottle. not a vottle, but a bottle. you open it and I'll drink it. and you try to write as much as I did without falling off of your chair.

  Charles Bukowski

  Fall, Writing, Trying

  Charles Bukowski (2008). “Charles Bukowski: portions from a wine-stained notebook : uncollected stories and essays, 1944-1990”, City Lights Publishers

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• From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Moving, Fall, Men

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• Men of science, osteologists And surgeons, beat some poets, in respect For nature,-count nought common or unclean, Spend raptures upon perfect specimens Of indurated veins, distorted joints, Or beautiful new cases of curved spine; While we, we are shocked at nature's falling off, We dare to shrink back from her warts and blains.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Beautiful, Fall, Health

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.420

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• Falling in love was like falling off a cliff. It felt pretty much like flying until you hit the ground.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Falling In Love, Flying, Cliffs

  Cinda Williams Chima (2011). “The Dragon Heir”, p.291, Hachette UK

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• 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

  Fall, Eye, Sweat

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

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• At first I wanted to be a jockey. I rode horses in Cleveland but I kept falling off and I was afraid of horses. So there wasn't much of a future in it.

  Tim Conway

  Horse, Fall, Cleveland

  Interview with Claudia Perry, www.aislesay.com. March 31, 2005.

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• I had already done a lot of research for Rough Riders, keeping notebooks and old photographs. Some of the books were antiques for that time period, with the covers falling off.

  Tom Berenger

  Notebook, Fall, Done

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• Quests always have their ups and downs,' rumbled the giant. 'The point is never to give up, even if you're falling off a cliff. You never know what might happen on the way to the bottom.

  Nancy Farmer

  Giving Up, Fall, Giants

  Nancy Farmer (2015). “The Sea of Trolls”, p.265, Simon and Schuster

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• I kind of just lost track of laps. I couldn't hear a split. It was just so loud in here everyone was going nuts. I sort of felt like I was a little tired and I said, the people in front of me seem like they are falling off the lead pack a little bit. I should probably make a move. I hear ding, ding, ding, ding and I thought "oh crap! I've really got to go, I've got a lot left.

  Will Leer

  Moving, Fall, Tired

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• For the average person, taken to their sick bed, it takes a serious bout of pneumonia or a full body cast to completely forget the life they had prior to falling off the rollercoaster. I, however, will do this over a paper cut on my thumb, obsessing of said cut and being generally consumed by it.

  Sloane Crosley

  Fall, Taken, Cutting

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• I keep falling off the edge of the stage because I can't see it. I can't see my wrinkles in the mirror either, though.

  John Lydon

  Fall, Wrinkles, Mirrors

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• I know what falling off the cliff means. I know from being considered a very bright kid to being considered like a moron and dropping out of school.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Fall, School, Mean

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• 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, Fall, Sides

  Lewis Carroll “Alice in Wonderland”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It is for the inconsistent, unsteady disciples whose cheese is falling off their cracker.

  Brennan Manning

  Fall, Cheese, Crackers

  Brennan Manning, John Blase (2011). “All Is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir”, p.103, David C Cook

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• Having to call your customer service department is like falling off a six story building.

  Jon Jones

  Fall, Stories, Six

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• Teenagers falling off skateboards - funny. Nut shots - funny. Breaking wind - funny. The world cannot change those. Those three things are columns upon which humor is built.

  John Oliver

  Teenager, Fall, Wind

  "John Oliver On Facts, Donald Trump And The Supreme Court For Dogs". Interview with Steve Inskeep, ijpr.org. February 10, 2017.

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• And, she was able to tell herself with some satisfaction, the man in question - one Colin Bridgerton - felt precisely the same way.... ....His earth shook, his heart leaped, and Penelope knew without a doubt that his breath was taken away as well. For a good ten seconds. Falling off a horse tended to do that to a man.

  Julia Quinn

  Horse, Fall, Taken

  Julia Quinn (2009). “Romancing Mr Bridgerton: Number 4 in series”, p.8, Hachette UK

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