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“My parents didn't give me any scope to feel sorry for myself. They were just like 'go play with your brother, go climb a tree, go fall off your motorbike, do whatever you want. Don't come crying to us when you get scratched. You've got prosthetic legs - that's very nice.”

Want Giving Feels Play Fall Parent Nice Tree Cry Brother Give Me Sorry Legs Climbs Scope Very Nice Your Brother Do Whatever You Want Prosthetics Motorbike

Author:Oscar Pistorius

“My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.”

Source: A Boy's Will

“All the earth is at rest and is quiet: they are bursting into song. Even the trees of the wood are glad over you, the trees of Lebanon, saying, From the time of your fall no wood-cutter has come up against us with an axe.”

Earth Song Fall Tree Quiet Come Up Woods Glad Forests Over You Bursting Lebanon Cutters

Author:Isaiah

“The man to solitude accustom'd long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease, After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.”

Men Long Fall Animal Tree He Man Flower Solitude Speech Understood Rain Tongue Ease Perceive Rejoice Herbs Drought Shrubs

Book:The poetical works of William Cowper: Complete ed., with memoir, explanatory notes etc

Source: The poetical works of William Cowper: Complete ed., with memoir, explanatory notes etc

“Ingratitude is a nail which, driven into the tree of courtesy, causes it to wither; it is a broken channel, by which the foundations of the affections are undermined; and a lump of soot, which, falling into the dish of friendship, destroys its scent and flavor.”

Fall Causes Tree Broken Foundation Affection Driven Dishes Nails Scent Flavor Courtesy Lumps Ingratitude

Author:Giambattista Basile

“When a tree has been transplanted, though fierce winds may blow, it will not topple if it has a firm stake to hold it up. But even a tree that has grown up in place may fall over if its roots are weak.”

Ifs May Has Beens Fall Tree Strength Wind Roots Weak Blow Firm Stakes Fierce

Book:The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin

Source: The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin

“As the palm-tree standeth so straight and so tall, The more the hail beats, and the more the rains fall.”

Fall Tree Beats Rain Tall Palms Hail Palm Trees

Author:Simon Dach

“This novel has it all--mystery, psychological insight, emotional truth, and--most important--characters whose lives matter. You'll fall in love with these families. Solti writes with such passion it is inescapable, lyrical, and profoundly moving. The Forgetting Tree goes on my top ten list.”

Writing Important Matter Character Moving Fall Passion Forget Novel Mystery Tree Emotional Goes On Ten Falling In Love Insight Lists Psychological Lyrical

Author:Jonis Agee

“Understand me: I wish to be a man from somewhere, a man among men. You see, a slave, when he passes by, weary and surly, carrying a heavy load, limping along and looking down at his feet, only at his feet to avoid falling down; he is in his town, like a leaf in greenery, like a tree in a forest, argos surrounds him, heavy and warm, full of herself; I want to be that slave, Electra, I want to pull the city around me and to roll myself up in it like a blanket. I will not leave.”

“Fools, when their roof-tree falls, think it doomsday.”

Thinking Fall Tree Fool Roof Doomsday

Book:The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

“Even monkeys fall out of trees.”

Fall Tree Monkeys

Author:J. F. Lawton

“Another striding instance is recorded by the very intelligent traveler regarding a representation of the fall of our first parents, sculptured in the magnificent temple of Ipsambul in Nubia. He says that a very exact representation of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden is to be seen in that cave, and that the serpent climbing round the tree is especially delineated, and the whole subject of the tempting of our first parents most accurately exhibited.”

“A dead tree, falling, made less havoc than a live one. It seemed as though a live tree went down fighting, like an animal.”

Made Fall Fighting Animal Tree Havoc Dead Trees

Author:Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“I can pass days Stretch'd in the shade of those old cedar trees, Watching the sunshine like a blessing fall,-- The breeze like music wandering o'er the boughs, Each tree a natural harp,--each different leaf A different note, blent in one vast thanksgiving.”

I Can Different Fall Nature Natural Tree Blessing Notes Wander Sunshine Shade Leafs Breeze Harps Cedars

Book:Poetical works complete

Source: Poetical works complete

“My favorite piece of information is that Branwell Brontë, brother of Emily and Charlotte, died standing up leaning against a mantelpiece, in order to prove it could be done. This is not quite true, in fact. My absolute favorite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.”

Source: The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“A thought falls like a ripe fruit from the tree of idleness.”

Fall Tree Fruit Idleness Ripe Ripe Fruit

Book:A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney

Source: A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney

“What sort of tree is there which will not, if neglected, grow crooked and unfruitful; what but Will, if rightly ordered, prove productive and bring its fruit to maturity? What strength of body is there which will not lose its vigor and fall to decay by laziness, nice usage, and debauchery?”

Ifs Body Fall Culture Grows Loses Nice Tree Prove Fruit Maturity Productive Laziness Decay Neglected Crooked Vigor Usage Debauchery

Author:Plutarch

“The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge ... falls ripe from its stem; but those who have eaten with sobriety find no need to discuss the processes of digestion.”

Knows Needs Mind Wells Values Fall Process Tree Fruit Charm Stem Ripe Sobriety Digestion Tree Of Knowledge Reticence

Book:Counter-Currents

Source: Counter-Currents

“One classic American landscape haunts all of American literature. It is a picture of Eden, perceived at the instant of history when corruption has just begun to set it. The serpent has shown his scaly head in the undergrowth. The apple gleams on the tree. The old drama of the Fall is ready to start all over again.”

Fall Literature Tree Ready Drama Corruption Landscape Classic Instant Apples Eden Serpent Gleam American Literature American Landscape

Book:For Love and Money: A Writing Life

Source: For Love and Money: A Writing Life

“Romance is the truth of imagination and boyhood. Homer's horses clear the world at a bound. The child's eye needs no horizon to its prospect. The oriental tale is not too vast. Pearls dropping from trees are only falling leaves in autumn. The palace that grew up in a night merely awakens a wish to live in it. The impossibilities of fifty years are the commonplaces of five.”

Source: Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature

“If a tree falls in the woods and no one's around to hear it, it still very probably makes a sound. A baseball game that's played with no one around to watch it, though - that's a different proposition.”

Ifs Stills Different Fall Games Sound Watches Tree Baseball Woods Propositions Baseball Games

Author:Carson Cistulli

“When I first encountered the poems of Jon Woodward, I was stunned into the state that is my life's joy-I was in the presence of the inimitable. Uncanny Valley extends that experience-almost into another dimension. These apocalyptic, pixilated poems forge a mythology of our ravaged culture, one that might have been written in the future. If you want poetry to give you a persimmon on a plate, look elsewhere; if you want to know what happens when seven trees fall on the highway and the story is told by a stutterer, this is the book, and it could only have been written by Woodward.”

“People fall in private, long before they fall in public. The tree falls with a great crash, but the secret decay which accounts for it, is often not discovered until it is down on the ground.”

People Long Fall Secret Tree Accounts Decay Crash

Author:J. C. Ryle

“I grew up in an era of thinking of travel as escape. The idea that you could conceivably have a new life, go somewhere, fall in love, have little children under the palm trees.”

Thinking Children Littles Ideas Fall Tree Grew Grew Up Falling In Love Eras New Life Palms Palm Trees

Author:Paul Theroux

“Allow your attention to gently alight on your belly, as if you were coming upon a shy animal sunning itself on a tree stump in a clearing in the forest. Feel your belly rise or expand gently on the inbreath, and fall or recede on the outbreath.”

Ifs Feels Fall Animal Attention Tree Forests Shy Belly Clearing Stumps

Book:Full Catastrophe Living, Revised Edition: How to cope with stress, pain and illness using mindfulness meditation

Source: Full Catastrophe Living, Revised Edition: How to cope with stress, pain and illness using mindfulness meditation

“The Incarnation is the medicine of the soul, undoing the Fall and bringing man to the Tree of Life, and the office of a priest is to administer this medicine in the sacraments.”

Men Soul Fall Tree Office Medicine Priests Sacraments Incarnation Tree Of Life Undoing

Author:Arthur Middleton

“Sometimes [people] say the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree. In my case, I am pretty fortunate. [ My kids]'re pretty balanced, cool kids, going through pretty much the same thing all the other kids go through. There's nothing unique about me as a parent. I am a parent. My kids are kids. We do the best we can do. I don't think they know a lot about what I do, other than that I am in this crazy band, Mötley Crüe.”

People Thinking Knows Sometimes Kids Fall Parent Can Do Cases Tree Crazy Band Unique Fortunate Apples Balanced Do The Best I Am Pretty Cool Kid

Author:Nikki Sixx

“Autumn is the American season. In Europe the leaves turn yellow or brown, and fall. Here they take fire on the trees and hang there flaming. We think this frost-fire is a portent somehow: a promise that the continent has given us. Life, too, we think, is capable of taking fire in this country; of creating beauty never seen.”

Thinking Country Turns Fall Given Fire Tree Promise Creating Capable Europe Seasons Brown Autumn Yellow Continents Frost Creating Beauty Portents

Author:Archibald MacLeish

“There's a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed falls, it makes a tree which struggles to reach the sky.”

People Matter Fall Heaven Grows Struggle Tree Sky Seeds Brooklyn

Author:Betty Smith

“Go to the adolescent who are smothered in family-- Oh how hideous it is To see three generations of one house gathered together! It is like an old tree with shoots, And with some branches rotted and falling.”

Together Fall Three House Generations Tree Oppression Branches Adolescence Hideous Old Trees Three Generations

Book:Delphi Poetical Works of Ezra Pound (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Poetical Works of Ezra Pound (Illustrated)

“Maybe we need to fall on the common-sense side of protecting these species, but continue harvesting wood products we all use and enjoy. We've got to be able to do both - protect water quality and species, as well as harvest trees.”

Needs Wells Use Able Fall Enjoy Sides Water Common Quality Tree Products Protect Species Woods Common Sense Harvest Water Quality

Author:John Hancock

“Industriousness and conscientiousness are often at odds, because industriousness wants to pick the still sour fruit from the tree,while conscientiousness lets it hang there too long, until it falls and bruises.”

Want Long Stills Fall Tree Picks Fruit Odds Sour Bruises Conscientiousness

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Why, why are people all balls of bitter dust? Because they won't fall off the tree when they're ripe. They hang on to their old positions when the position is overpast, till they become infested with little worms and dry-rot.”

People Littles Fall Change Tree Position Balls Bitter Dust Dry Worms Ripe

Book:Women in Love

Source: Women in Love

“In the hollow tree, in the old gray tower, The spectral Owl doth dwell; Dull, hated, despised, in the sunshine hour, But at the dusk--he's abroad and well! Not a bird of the forest e'er mates with him-- All mock him outright, by day: But at night, when the woods grow still and dim, The boldest will shrink away! O, when the night falls, and roosts the fowl, Then, then, is the reign of the Horned Owl!”

Wells Stills Night Fall Grows Hours Tree Bird Woods Forests Hated Dull Sunshine Gray Mates Towers Reign Shrinks Hollow Despised Mock Dusk Owl Fowl Roost

Author:Bryan Procter

“A bath in Ganges undoubtedly absolves one of all sins; but what does that avail? They say that the sins perch on trees along the banks of the Ganges. No sooner does the man come back from the holy waters that the old sins jump on his shoulders from the trees. The same old sins take possession of him again. He is hardly out of the waters before they fall upon him.”

Men Doe Fall Water Sin Tree He Man Holy Possession Shoulders Baths Holy Water

Author:Ramakrishna

“In certain savage tribes in New Guinea, they put the old people up in the trees and shake them once a year in the spring; if they don't fall out they let them live another year.”

People Ifs Years Certain Fall Tree Spring Shakes Savages Tribes Old People Guinea Another Year

Book:Three Plays: The Garbage Man, Airways, Inc., Fortune Heights

Source: Three Plays: The Garbage Man, Airways, Inc., Fortune Heights

“A horror novel should reveal to you that you are falling apart. That there are ways your imagination can be made different. Can threaten what you think is. You should be holding onto that tree or rock screaming. Or laughing. Not at absurdity, either: absurdism is just a bourgeois and reactionary nostalgia for good, stable meaning.”

Thinking Way Should Made Different Fall Imagination Novel Laughing Tree Rocks Horror Nostalgia Stable Absurdity Falling Apart Holding On Bourgeois Reactionaries

Author:Tony Burgess

“The fruit falls off the tree. You don't shake it off before it's ready to fall.”

Fall Tree Ready Fruit Shakes

Book:Al Pacino

Source: Al Pacino

“Let mine not be that saddest fate of all To live beyond my greater self; to see My faculties decaying, as the tree Stands stark and helpless while its green leaves fall... "She lives, but all her usefulness is past."”

Self Past Fall Greater Fate Tree Mines Green Appreciation Faculty Helpless Usefulness Starks Saddest Green Leaves

Book:Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)

Source: Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)

“The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break.”

Real Might Fall Break Tree Rain Chains Compare Real Friends Rust

Book:History of the Colonization of the United States

Source: History of the Colonization of the United States

“Have you ever noticed a tree standing naked against the sky, How beautiful it is? All its branches are outlined, and in its nakedness There is a poem, there is a song. Every leaf is gone and it is waiting for the spring. When the spring comes, it again fills the tree with The music of many leaves, Which in due season fall and are blown away. And this is the way of life.”

Way Beautiful Time Song Fall Waiting Gone Tree Sky Spring Standing Seasons Winter Dues Naked Branches Leafs January Life Time Blown Away Fall Season

Book:This Matter of Culture

Source: This Matter of Culture

“What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly? ... wearying himself with climbing upon every ascent, ... bruising himself with continual falls, and at last breaking his neck? And all this, from an imagination that it would be glorious to have the eyes of people looking up at him, and mighty happy to eat, and drink, and sleep, at the top of the highest trees in the kingdom.”

People Men Would Be Eye Lasts Science Night Fall Imagination Sleep Brain Study Tree Drink Highest Silly Kingdoms Glorious Necks Climbing Extravagant Ascent

Author:William Law

“If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to see it, do the other trees make fun of it?”

Ifs Humor Funny Fall Fun Tree Forests

Author:Steven Wright

“When men once reach their autumn, sickly joys fall off apace, as yellow leaves from trees”

Men Age Joy Fall Tree Autumn Yellow Yellow Leaves

Book:Imperium Pelagi, a naval lyric. Epistles to Mr. Pope, concerning the authors of the age. Sea-piece. The foreign address; or the best argument for peace. Epitaph on Lord Aubrey Beauclerk. Reflections on the public situation of the kingdom. An epistle to the right hon. Sir Robert Walpole. The old man's relapse. Resignation. Tragedies. Prose works

Source: Imperium Pelagi, a naval lyric. Epistles to Mr. Pope, concerning the authors of the age. Sea-piece. The foreign address; or the best argument for peace. Epitaph on Lord Aubrey Beauclerk. Reflections on the public situation of the kingdom. An epistle to the right hon. Sir Robert Walpole. The old man's relapse. Resignation. Tragedies. Prose works

“I saw a tree fall in the woods, and I didn't hear it.”

Humor Funny Fall Saws Tree Woods

Author:Steven Wright

“I didn't jump a lot of trees because I didn't like heights. I liked getting a mirror and walking around with it facing the sky. I'd imagine I was walking in the tops of the trees and falling into the sky, or walking up the stairs whilst going down.”

Fall Imagine Tree Sky Walking Mirrors Height Stairs

Author:Beth Orton

“The bay-trees in our country are all withered, And meteors fright the fixèd stars of heaven. The pale-faced moon looks bloody on the earth, And lean-looked prophets whisper fearful change. Rich men look sad, and ruffians dance and leap; The one in fear to lose what they enjoy, The other to enjoy by rage and war. These signs forerun the death or fall of kings.”

Men Looks War Country Earth Fall Heaven Stars Enjoy Loses Rich Tree Kings Moon Rage Our Country Prophet Leap Fearful Pale Bloody Rich Man Fright Withered Meteors Ruffian

Book:The Oxford Shakespeare: Richard II

Source: The Oxford Shakespeare: Richard II

“The vine that has grown old on an old tree falls with the ruin of that tree, and through that bad companionship must perish with it.”

Fall Tree Ruins Companionship Vines Old Trees

Book:The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

“In times that are dark and God seems far [away], I look for him in small ways - the innocent laughter of a child on an airplane, the way the rain falls down through tree branches, the aroma of honeysuckle as I ride my bike down the Natchez Trace, and through the love of friends who have carried me through the darkest times of my life.”

Way Looks Children Seems Fall Dark Tree Laughter Rain Innocent Branches Airplane Far Away Bike Falling Down Time Of My Life Aroma Tree Branches Darkest Times

Author:Anne Marie Miller

“Heaven, in the production of things, is sure to be bountiful to them, according to their qualities. Hence the tree that is flourishing, it nourishes, while that which is ready to fall, it overthrows.”

Fall Heaven Quality Tree Ready Productions Flourishing

Book:Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)