Fallen Quotes - Page 4

• Nowadays, many Americans have forgotten the meaning and traditions of Memorial Day. At cemeteries across the country, the graves of the fallen are sadly ignored, and worse, neglected.

  Allen West

  Country, Memorial Day, Ignored

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• But who cares? I can honestly look back and realize that everything happened for a reason. Everything that fell apart has fallen back into place beautifully and magically.

  Edie Brickell

  Looks, Care, Realizing

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• Trust is a careless pursuit at best. At worst, it's a good way to get yourself killed.

  Lauren Kate

  Way, Pursuit, Worst

  Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.479, Delacorte Press

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• You know everyone loves to hate a happy pair of lovebirds.

  Lauren Kate

  Hate, Pairs, Lovebirds

  Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.304, Delacorte Press

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• And while Luce dreamed below of the most glorious wings unfurling-the likes of which she'd never seen before-two angels in the rafters shook hands.

  Lauren Kate

  Angel, Hands, Wings

  Lauren Kate (2013). “Fallen: Angels in the Dark”, p.452, Delacorte Press

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• I get to live forever," he repeated. Luce was still lost, but he kept talking, a stream of words pouring out of his mouth. "I get to live, and to watch babies being born, and grow up, and fall in love. I watch them have babies of their own and grow old. I watch them die. I am condemned, Luce, to watch it all over again and again. Everyone but you." His eyes were glassy. His voice dropped to a whisper. "You don't get to fall in love--" "But...," she whispered back. "I've...fallen in love.

  Lauren Kate

  Baby, Falling In Love, Growing Up

  Lauren Kate (2011). “The Fallen Sequence: An Omnibus Edition”, p.284, Delacorte Press

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• You're the first Shadowhunter I've ever met." “That’s too bad,” said Jace, “since all the others you meet from now on will be a terrible letdown.

  Cassandra Clare

  Firsts, Fallen Angels, Jace

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• You know, some people think Shadowhunters are just myths. Like mummies and genies." Kyle grinned at Jace. "Can you grant wishes?" "That depends," he said. "Do you wish to be punched in the face?

  Cassandra Clare

  Thinking, People, Wish

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “City of Fallen Angels”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm always so glad I have no idea what you're vacantly chatting about," said Jace. It fills me with a sense of peace and well-being.

  Cassandra Clare

  Ideas, Fallen Angels, Jace

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1530, Simon and Schuster

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• They think they're better than everyone else." "No," said Jace. "I think I'm better than everyone else. An opinion that has been backed up with ample evidence." Kyle looked at Simon. "Does he always talk like this?" "Yes.

  Cassandra Clare

  Thinking, Doe, Opinion

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “City of Fallen Angels”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• Medium clever,” Simon acknowledged. “Like a cross between George Clooney in Ocean’s Eleven and those MythBusters guys, but, you know, better-looking.” “I’m always so glad I have no idea what you’re vacantly chattering about,” said Jace. “It fills me with a sense of peace and well-being.

  Cassandra Clare

  Clever, Ocean, Ideas

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1530, Simon and Schuster

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• Do you have a lot of other profound thoughts like that? Blood is blood? A toaster is a toaster? A Gelatinous Cube is a Gelatinous Cube?

  Cassandra Clare

  Blood, Profound, Cubes

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1510, Simon and Schuster

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• Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Memorial Day, Freedom

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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• I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free.

  Lee Greenwood

  Memorial Day, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  Song: God Bless The U.S.A, Album: American Patriot

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• On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation!

  Thomas William Parsons

  Uplifting, Memorial Day, Rain

  Thomas William Parsons (1866). “The magnolia [verse].”, p.29

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• They're always such alive females. And also, all those love stories - no man in Austen has ever fallen in love with a female heroine because she's pretty or beautiful or has long, blonde hair. They fall in love with them because of who they are, because of their vibrancy and their intelligence and if only we were teaching that a bit more in schools.

  Anna Maxwell Martin

  Beautiful, Falling In Love, Teaching

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• We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen away, and to bring home those who have lost their way. Many who seem to us to be children of the Devil will still become Christ's disciples.

  Francis of Assisi

  Children, Home, Devil

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• It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Hands, Justice, Humanity

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  The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Being Thankful, Thankfulness, Persons

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• Many shall be restored that now are fallen and many shall fall that now are in honor.

  Horace

  Fall, Honor

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• It is wrong not to give a hand to the fallen. This right is common to the whole human race.

  Seneca the Elder

  Race, Hands, Giving

  "Controversiae". Book 1, Chapter 1, sect. 14. Translation from Norman T. Pratt "Seneca's Drama", p. 140, 1983.

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• I am persuaded that without knowledge of literature pure theology cannot at all endure. . . . When letters have declined and lain prostrate, theology, too, has wretchedly fallen and lain prostrate. . . . It is my desire that there shall be as many poets and rhetoricians as possible, because I see that by these studies as by no other means, people are wonderfully fitted for the grasping of sacred truth and for handling it skillfully and happily.

  Martin Luther

  Education, Mean, People

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• Each new epoch in life seems an encounter. There is a tussle and a cloud of dust, and we come out of it triumphant or crest-fallen, according as we have borne ourselves.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Clouds, Dust

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”

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• It is a kingly act to help the fallen.

  Ovid

  Helping

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• He that is fallen cannot helpe him that is downe.
  [He that is fallen cannot help him that is down.]

  George Herbert

  Helping

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