Top 252 Fallen Quotes

You think about all the years that a USA volleyball team has been in the Olympics and have tried and have fallen short. Then to feel like you’re pushing for something and you’re trying to find that edge and then you finally do it, it’s like, Whoa, it worked!’

A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.

So many things I thought I was doing have fallen apart. Until I’ve finished filming, I don’t believe I have the job.

We humans are still a very primitive culture, and it’s one of the traps we’ve fallen into over the course of our lives – to forget our history. That’s why George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ is so profound. It chronicles our short memory.

We’ve all fallen, but at the same time we’re not broken. There is the hint that we are going to get up again.

Henry Miller is a famous writer whose work has fallen out of fashion, but I strongly recommend that readers who don’t know his work pick up a book and experience this writer’s zealous, crazy, inventive, funny, sexy, often delirious prose.

Everything you do in a patient’s room, after he is ‘put up’ for the night, increases tenfold the risk of his having a bad night. But, if you rouse him up after he has fallen asleep, you do not risk – you secure him a bad night.

The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

So many times I’ve gone flying. I’ve fallen in audience members’ laps, I’ve fallen down the stairs, I’ve had a shoe fall off live.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

There was a time when we were in a van and handing out the CDs at Warped Tour. We had a two-song EP that we were just handing out for free just to promote ourselves. That was on the ‘Waking the Fallen’ record, and we were just going around and handing out the CDs and stuff like that.

I had fallen in love once with someone, and I remember it being so distinct, where after the first time they’d hug me, I never wanted another man to ever touch me ever again.

In Willesden I was surrounded by quite a few footballers, but a lot of them have fallen off, and that’s not something I wanted to do.

I take inspiration from so many places. I think, more than anything, it would have to be the music made by others that I’ve then fallen in love with, whether it’s Madonna, Blood Orange, Fleetwood Mac, or Pink Floyd!

A lot of our Democratic consultants have fallen into the self-defeating prescription that the candidate that runs the most negative ads wins. I have a new theory: Positive is the new negative.

Most Americans have little idea of how far our nation’s worldwide standing had fallen by the end of the Bush administration; no matter how bad you thought it had gotten, it was worse.

I’ve fallen asleep at red lights before. Not like passed out, but like I’ve put the parking break on and reclined my seat and taken a nap.

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.

Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.

In terms of being vulgar, I don’t think you need to be violent unless it’s slapstick, violence to yourself. That can be funny – we’ve all tripped and fallen on our faces.

I’m originally from Phoenix, Arizona, but I’ve fallen in love with London.

I forever felt that I’ve fallen right between the crack of way too young for the first generation of classic rock ‘n’ roll and too old to be brand-new. It’s hard.

Penguin is this interesting figure within the city of Gotham. He’s this guy who has worked in the shadows and publicly. He’s skirted the line between lawful and completely chaotic or villainous. He’s risen and fallen multiple times in the ways that pretty much no other character can dream of.

I’m always told that what I say is controversial. Why is it controversial? Because I speak from a tradition that has now fallen out of favor with the dominant media in this country. And so when I say things like marriage should be between one man and one woman, I’m called a bigot.

Numerous studies have shown income inequality growing since the late 1970s. Real earnings have fallen for many families, with globalization, the decline of unions and technological innovations eroding workers’ wages.

In 2008, I was in a London park when I came across a fledgling crow that had fallen from the top of an oak tree. A woman happened to be passing, and she said that she rescued animals, so she invited me back to her house. It turned out she was the wife of Jeff Beck. Jeff was there, and we ended up jamming together.

If you look at landscape in historical terms, you realize that most of the time we have been on Earth as a species, what has fallen on our retina is landscape, not images of buildings and cars and street lights.

Acting has been my life since I was five, and everything has just fallen into place. I’ve never had to push and shove.

I started doing theatre with Satyadev Dubey at Prithvi and I had to start from scratch. I had fallen in love with the craft of acting by then.

Before I met my husband, I’d never fallen in love. I’d stepped in it a few times.

The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.

Some of my academic friends think I’ve fallen from a very special grace.

I’ve fallen in love with shows like ‘Homeland’ and ‘The Wire.’ And I think ‘The Office’ is in a category like that.

There are nights when you can feel stale because you’ve fallen into a pattern by touring too much, but it’s easy to get out of it by deliberately getting in trouble and playing yourself into a corner to then see if you can get out of it.

When I ran track, I couldn’t see myself doing anything other than running track. Now I’m in wrestling, and I can’t see myself doing anything other than wrestling, because I’ve completely fallen in love with what I do in this business.

The death of Christ proclaimed the justice and perpetuity of his Father’s law in punishing the transgressor, in that he consented to suffer the penalty of the law himself, in order to save fallen man from its curse.

It is very possible that I could have ended up on 80 acres of land by myself, and fallen in love at a distance with a gorgeous woman I could never have been with.

Heavy music is really getting its due. With nu-metal fallen by the wayside, real metal has started to surface.

One of the reasons I wrote ‘Airborn’ was that I’d fallen in love with the great passenger airships which flew in the ’20s and ’30s. Their time was short-lived. They were frail, they tended to crash; and they could never be as fast, safe and efficient as the airplanes that replaced them.

We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?

I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater. It was Judy Holliday. She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today.

There’s nothing less sexy than a girl falling over on stage. I have fallen once, but it had nothing to do with my shoes. I’m legally blind, so I fell over a monitor because the stage was black, and I had no depth perception. Mortifying.

Without elephants, Africa’s landscape would be unrecognizable, yet these animals have fallen by the hundreds of thousands as a result of two enormous waves of poaching in this century – one in the 1970s and 1980s, the other, beginning around 2009, now underway.

Trump has never sacrificed anything for this country, and in fact, he has attacked people who have. It just makes me sick to my stomach when I see him attacking the mother of a fallen hero or John McCain. It just makes me sick to my stomach that this guy thinks he’s prepared to be commander-in-chief.

Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.

Remember, you must not sleep at the Seder. If you do, Elijah the Prophet will come with a bag on his shoulders. On the two first nights of Passover, Elijah the Prophet goes about looking for those who have fallen asleep at the Seder, and takes them away in his bag.

I don’t think I’ve ever had a minute off in Israel. I’ve been completely and utterly devoted to what Hanadiv does. I’m not saying I’m a good guy for that. It’s just the way the dice have fallen.

I love the process. It’s like I’ve fallen in love with the process of trying to become great.

Whenever democracy has fallen into a crisis, the Korean people have sprung up in rage.

I hope and wish that it’s a Telugu boy for me. I have fallen completely in love with Telugu weddings and the rituals.