Quotessence
Home / Topics / Cliffs Quotes

Cliffs Quotes

Browse 411 quotes about Cliffs.

Related topics

FallIfsWayEdgesThinkingKnowsPeopleMenWorldJumping Off A CliffFirstsMightJumpingWantGivingSaidSeaTryingJumping OffWholeEndsMindRunningWaterIdeasKidsLooksMountainWould BeYearsAirFalling OffGuyRiversRocksStillsTwoWaveBigsBreakCarCareFalling Off A CliffFeelsHomeNeedsShouldStandingWingsFalling In LoveFeetFeltFilmFiscal CliffKindLongMadeMotherRepublicanWhiteActionBelieveBookBuildingClimbingDoverEyeFoundGoneHandsKnowingLyingOceanReasonSawsSidesSoundStepsTurnsWellsWriting

Cliffs Quotes

“You are born into a dangerous world, there are all sorts of ways in which you could die, and you need to believe your parents when they tell you don't go near the edge of the cliff, or don't pick up that snake, etc. There could very well be a Darwinian survival value in that sort of brain rule of thumb. And a by-product of that could be that you believe your parents when they tell you about the juju in the sky, or whatever it might be.”

WorldWayNeedsBelieveWellsMightValuesDiesParentBornBrainSkyDangerousProductsSurvivalPicksEdgesEtcSnakesCliffsThumbsDangerous WorldJuju
Author:Richard Dawkins
Create image

“The rich and powerful countries are trying to wreck as much as possible. You know, go off the cliff as soon as you can. Extract every drop of hydrocarbons off the ground and destroy the environment. At the opposite extreme are countries like Bolivia and Ecuador, indigenous people around the world, and first nations in Canada and tribal people in India, campesinos in Colombia... They're trying to save the commons.”

PeopleKnowsWorldTryingFirstsCountryNationsPowerfulRichEnvironmentOppositesIndiaExtremesAround The WorldCanadaIndigenousCliffsWrecksColombiaIndigenous PeopleBoliviaEcuadorHydrocarbonsPowerful Countries
Author:Noam Chomsky
Create image

“Palin was a political Hail Mary, a long bomb in the closing minutes of a game that John McCain and Co. were certain to lose. They didn't care if she had the policy or political or emotional capacity to serve as vice president, let alone president. They were willing to drive the country off a cliff, if that's what it took to win.”

IfsLongCountryCarePoliticalCertainGamesWinningPresidentLosesMinutesPolicyEmotionalWillingCapacityVicesBombsMaryClosingCliffsVice PresidentMccainPalinHailHail Mary
Author:Dee Dee Myers
Create image

“If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.”

IfsWayLifeInspirationalWellsMotivationalFaithChanceBusinessRiskLove YouFriendsWingsAffairIntelligenceIntellectNonsenseCynicalTake A ChanceCliffsLove AffairRisk-takingGreat RiskRisks In LifeJumping OffRisking Your LifeMartian ChroniclesJumping Off A CliffLove Takes Time
Author:Ray Bradbury
Create image

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

WayLifeWritingBeautifulFaithCreativityCreativeWingsInventionFearlessDevelopingBad AssJumpingCliffsCreative IdeasIdeas And CreativityInspire CreativityJumping OffJumping InJumping Off A Cliff
Book:If This Isn't Nice What Is? (Much) Expanded Second Edition: The Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live By
Create image

“Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be.”

IfsKnowsLooksMeanLittlesBigsRunningKidsHopeGamesCrazyFieldsStandingEdgesLittle KidCliffsCatchingCatchersHoldenHolden CaulfieldKids PlayingStanding On The Edge
Author:J. D. Salinger
Create image

“...she took her hand and raised her brush. For a moment it stayed trembling in a painful but exciting ecstacy in the air. Where to begin?--that was the question at what point to make the first mark? One line placed on the canvas committed her to innumerable risks, to frequent and irrevocable decisions. All that in idea seemed simple became in practice immediately complex; as the waves shape themselves symmetrically from the cliff top, but to the swimmer among them are divided by steep gulfs, and foaming crests. Still the risk must run; the mark made.”

FirstsMadeStillsIdeasMomentsHandsRunningLinesSimpleDecisionPracticeRiskAirShapesExcitingMarkRaisedComplexesWavePainfulCommittedDividedCanvasBrushesCliffsTremblingSteepOne LineSwimmerIrrevocable
Author:Virginia Woolf
Create image

“The beautiful came to this city [Hollywood] in huge pathetic herds, to suffer, to be humiliated, to see the powerful currency of their beauty devalued like the Russian ruble or Argentine peso;to work as bellhops, as bar hostesses, as garbage collectors, as maids. The city was a cliff and they were its stampeding lemmings. At the foot of the cliff was the valley of the broken dolls.”

BeautifulSufferingPowerfulCitiesFeetHugeBrokenHollywoodBarsValleysCurrencyGarbagePatheticCliffsDollsHerdsCollectorsMaidsHumiliatedHostessesLemmings
Author:Salman Rushdie
Create image

“I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs with strips of emerald cultivation either side. Away from the cliffs was the desert. There was no sound but the wind, whirring through thorns and whistling through dead grass, and no other sign of life but a hawk, and a black beetle easing over white stones.”

SoundSidesBlackWhitePathWindRiversStonesBonesDesertGrassStreamsCliffsThornsCultivationHawksChileWhistlingBeetlesEmeraldsSigns Of Life
Book:In Patagonia
Create image

“His mouth opens. From inside him comes a slow stream, without breath, without interruption. It flows up through his body and out upon me; it passes through the cabin, through the wreck; washing the cliffs and shores of the island, it runs northward and southward to the ends of the earth. Soft and cold, dark and unending, it beats against my eyelids, against the skin of my face.”

EndsBodyRunningEarthFacesDarkColdBeatsMouthsFlowSkinsBreathsIslandsStreamsShoreCliffsWrecksWashingInterruptionsUnendingCabinsEyelids
Book:Foe: A Novel
Create image

“If it is perfectly acceptable for a widow to disfigure herself or commit suicide to save face for her husband's family, why should a mother not be moved to extreme action by the loss of a child or children? We are their caretakers. We love them. We nurse them when they are sick. . . But no woman should live longer than her children. It is against the law of nature. If she does, why wouldn't she wish to leap from a cliff, hang from a branch, or swallow lye?”

IfsShouldChildrenDoeActionFacesLawMotherWishLossHusbandSickSuicideMovedExtremesCommitBranchesLeapNurseAcceptableLaws Of NatureCliffsWidowsLoss Of A ChildCaretakers
Author:Lisa See
Create image

“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. Life has loveliness to sell, Music like a curve of gold, Scent of pine trees in the rain, Eyes that love you, arms that hold, And for your spirit's still delight, Holy thoughts that star the night. Spend all you have for loveliness, Buy it and never count the cost; For one white singing hour of peace Count many a year of strife well lost, And for a breath of ecstasy Give all you have been, or could be.”

LifeGivingYearsWellsChildrenHas BeensStillsEyeBeautifulFacesSpiritNightLostStarsHoursWhiteWonderFireTreeLove YouArmsHolyCostLosingSingingRainGoldBreathsBlueSellsWaveDelightCupsEcstasyScentStrifeSoarCurvesSplendidCliffsLovelinessPine Trees
Book:Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale
Create image

“What's up, Hachi?" "Someone......Just slipped through my force-field." "!!!" "A soul reaper?" "No. The Hachigyo Sogai (Twin Cliffs) I set is an original technique I developed after I became a visored. It can't be broken by a soul reaper's kido." "Then who is it? Another visored?" "I don't know. The strange thing is that they didn't break through the force-field. They Slipped through. Not even a visored should be able to do that." "Then, who or what is it?" "...It's coming." "It's a Human?" "Uh...Um...E-excuse me...where's the Bathroom?”

KnowsShouldHumansSoulAbleForceBreakFieldsStrangeBrokenOriginalsExcuseTechniqueTwinsBathroomCliffsStrange ThingsBreak ThroughExcuse MeReaperForce Fields
Author:Tite Kubo
Create image

“Can you surf really well, then?" I looked at Grover, who was trying hard not to laugh. "Jeez, Nico," I said. "I've never really tried." He went on asking questions. Did I fight a lot with Thalia, since she was a daughter of Zeus? (I didn't answer that one.) If Annabeth's mother was Athena, the goddess of wisdom, then why didn't Annabeth know better than to fall off a cliff? (I tried not to strangle Nico for asking that one.) Was Annabeth my girlfriend? (At this point, I was ready to stick the kid in a meat-flavored sack and throw him to the wolves.)”

IfsKnowsTryingWellsSaidHardKidsMotherFallFightingAnswersLaughingReadyDaughterAskingSticksMythologyMeatGirlfriendGoddessCliffsMy GirlfriendSurfAsking QuestionsAnnabethAnnabeth ChaseZeusPercy Jackson And The OlympiansTrying HardOlympianAthenaGroverPercabethGrover UnderwoodThalia Grace
Author:Rick Riordan
Create image