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falling quotes

  • I have a feeling I'm falling on rare occasions but most of the time I have my feet on the ground I can't help it if the ground itself is falling.

    - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
      'Mock Confessional'.

  • I think audiences come to hear older musicians like me just to see if we can pick up a horn without falling over.

    - Bud (Lawrence) Freeman
      Crazeology:  The Autobiography of a Chicago Jazzman (as told to Robert  Wolf), ch.9.

  • Part of a moon was falling down the west, Dragging the whole sky with it to the hills.

    - Robert Lee Frost
      North of Boston,'The Death of the Hired Man'.

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