Famous quotes containing the words fall, river and/or valley:
“You know whats wrong with you, Miss Whoever you are? Youre chicken. Youve got no guts. Youre afraid to stick out your chin and say, Okay, lifes a fact. People do fall in love. People do belong to each other, because thats the only chance anybodys got for real happiness.”
—George Axelrod (b. 1922)
“It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.... As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see the River Tiber foaming with much blood.”
—J. Enoch Powell (b. 1912)
“How old the world is! I walk between two eternities.... What is my fleeting existence in comparison with that decaying rock, that valley digging its channel ever deeper, that forest that is tottering and those great masses above my head about to fall? I see the marble of tombs crumbling into dust; and yet I dont want to die!”
—Denis Diderot (17131784)