Top 44 Slipping Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Slipping Quotes from famous people such as Charles M. Blow, Benson Henderson, Saul David, Zach Galligan, Bettany Hughes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

The first memory I have in the world is of death and te

The first memory I have in the world is of death and tears. That is how I would mark the beginning of my life: the way people mark the end of one. My family had gathered at Papa Joe’s house because Mam’ Grace was slipping away, only I didn’t register it that way. For some reason I thought that it was her birthday.
Charles M. Blow
I like getting my hand raised and I’ll take it any way I can get it. Slipping on a banana peel, by the skin of my teeth. By any means, you know?
Benson Henderson
Winter horseshoes are equipped with little spikes that give a horse traction on snow and ice and prevent it from slipping.
Saul David
Three years is a lifetime in Hollywood. If your career starts slipping in L.A., you can really feel it. All of a sudden, the people that you were beating for a part start beating you.
Zach Galligan
Slipping down into the bedrock 100m inside the partially excavated tomb of Pharaoh Senwosret at Abydos, I really thought I was going to die. Oxygen levels are dangerously low and, with over 90 per cent humidity, it was hard to breathe – we were all drenched with sweat.
Bettany Hughes
I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards.
Paul Wolfowitz
Mostly I’ve just been stealing little moments for myself in order to write – in the bathroom at a hotel, or just slipping away for a half an hour. Amidst all of the touring, life has been happening.
Adrianne Lenker
Dixie has just fallen to pieces. There are little patches of Dixie. But even in the heart of Dixie – in Alabama – Dixie is slipping. They’ve stopped using the word in commercial listings.
John Shelton Reed
Something happened to me at the precise moment that my grandmother died. She was three time zones away, but that didn’t matter. I believe that I felt something at that moment she passed… some bit of her mortality slipping away.
Zak Bagans
A double leg in MMA is completely different than what you would do in wrestling because the posture’s different. You’re standing upright as opposed to bent over; you’re slipping a punch as a opposed to grabbing a guy’s elbow and doing a traditional elbow pull or slide-by in wrestling.
Chael Sonnen
Most of the folks to whom I listen are concerned for their future. Too many of them know someone who’s out of work, has lost their own job, or fear they might. And, they increasingly believe that the opportunity for a better life for their children is slipping away.
Phil Gingrey
I was so afraid to make mistakes and get reprimanded by my coaches that the joy of the sport started slipping away.
Dominique Moceanu
As authors evolve and try to trace the precedents that have shaped their work, it sometimes becomes a matter of identifying the shadowy figure in the back row of the mental photograph, or of grabbing at the tail of a memory that’s just slipping out the window into thin air.
Virginia Euwer Wolff
Christmas is a time for slipping into familiar patterns.
David Hepworth
Without grounding, it’s easy to embrace the ‘baller’ lifestyle: dropping out of tech, throwing money at cars, boats and real estate, and slipping into a cycle of spending and indulgence.
Ryan Holmes
All that time, you go, ‘God, am I slipping away here?’ And then something great happens, you get a call, and work begets more work.
Billy Crystal
All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
Salman Khan
I’ve loved the escapism of being another person, slipping into another character for a little while.
Jeri Ryan
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.
George Dennison Prentice
I’m a farmer. I always will be a farmer. When I die, I’ll be a farmer. It’s something that I’ve wanted to do since I was 8 years old. I can tell you also that I see opportunity slipping away for our kids.
Jon Tester
Looking out at the ocean, it’s easy to feel small – and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth’s seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.
Ted Danson
For any American who is worried about this country, who feels our core values slipping away, who believes something has to be done to change the direction of our nation before all is lost – the NRA is your refuge. It is your place to stand and fight with Americans just like you, for all that is good and right.
Wayne LaPierre
I can’t complain about the support I’ve been given over the years, but I don’t like it slipping away. Nobody says ‘I’d like to be a bit less successful next year, please’. Nobody on the planet wants that, and I certainly don’t.
Robbie Williams
I can understand the fact you don’t want the ball slipping out of a pitcher’s hand because someone can get hurt.
Joe Torre
One of the things about George III is that he was aware that the monarchy was slipping away. There was revolution in the air all over Europe. Because of the unpopularity of his predecessors, one of the things he wanted to do was to establish some sort of credibility to the monarchy.
Nigel Hawthorne
My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I’m still around.
John Wooden
TV and film are always slipping in political messages, not ones designed to bring us together but to divide us.
Orson Bean
I feel like everything I do is successful and productive. It’s gonna be hard to tell me I’m slipping.
Lil Wayne
I am happy to lose spots on the IPL Fairplay award list, but I cannot see my team slipping on the points table.
Gautam Gambhir
It felt as if things were literally slipping through my fingers. Things were just streaming away from me. I lost my sense of humor. I’m still looking for that.
Michelle Williams
Rampage’s footwork is atrocious. His boxing is slipping. He doesn’t take the fight game seriously.
Rashad Evans
The first job I got was this TV job in this show called

The first job I got was this TV job in this show called ‘The Unusuals.’ Then I did a play called ‘Slipping,’ and at the same time I was rehearsing another play at Playwrights Horizons, and that kind of snowballed into a bunch of plays.
Adam Driver
When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause.
Samantha Power
I think it’s obvious when you’re watching a movie, and there’s people fighting or someone’s slipping on the side of the building, that it’s fake and it really removes you from it.
Elliot Page
I’m not going to worry about the Cure slipping down into the second division; it doesn’t bother me because I never expected to be in the first division anyway.
Robert Smith
Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.
Nat King Cole
When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I’m slipping.
Maria Callas
I enjoy slipping into different roles and incorporate certain experiences into my life.
Antara Mali
When you go to the theater, you are slipping out of your life into someone else’s imaginary world.
Robert Krulwich
Ralph Ellison’s essays were models for me when I began my life as a critic. Slipping cultural yokes and violating aesthetic boundaries, he made criticism high-stakes work, especially for a black critic.
Margo Jefferson
Like any offensive lineman worth his shoulder pads, I’m a mudder. Football’s just not football without a healthy dose of slipping, sliding, snow, or rain.
Mark Schlereth
I was scared of the devil starting around age nine. Before that, I was gathering every family member in the living room, slipping a shirt over my robe so the bottom hung like a skirt and performing Gloria Estefan songs with feverish intensity.
Perfume Genius
A lot’s riding on ‘Dune,’ and my friends in Seattle realize what’s happening if I freak out a bit. They accept whatever I happen to be, and they tell me when I’m slipping out of Kyle. They call me the ‘God Emperor of the Universe.’
Kyle MacLachlan
I am always in a rush because time is slipping away, and I am chasing it, chasing it.
Dev Anand