"The vicissitudes of life resemble one of those gilded balls seen in a fountain. Thrown up by the force of the water, it flies up and down - now at the top, catching the rays of the sun, now cast into the depths, then again shooting up, sometimes so high that it escapes altogether, and falls to the ground."

-- Lady Randolph Churchill

#Life Quotes #Fall Quotes #Water Quotes

“The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.”
“But of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers.”
“People create social conditions and people can change them.”

Source : Osonye Tess Onwueme (1993). “Three Plays”, p.11, Wayne State University Press
“How do I take a step? How do I lift my foot off the ground, move it through the air a little bit and then bring it down? I had to teach myself to walk again.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Just how we fit into the plans of the Great Architect and how much He has assigned us to do, we do not know, but if we fail in our assignment it is pretty certain that part of the job will be left undone. But fit in we certainly do somehow, else we would not have a sense of our own responsibility. A purely materialistic philosophy is to me the height of unintelligence.”

Source : "The autobiography of Robert A. Millikan".
“Why can't the world be simpler, like it is for guinea pigs? They only have a few rules: Crying will get you attention. If it fits in your mouth, it's food. Scream if you don't get your share.”

Source : Cynthia Lord (2006). “Rules”
“And there hasn't been much progress in Darwinism since [the life of Darwin].”
“I came to hate the complainers, with their dry and crumbly lipsticks and their wrinkled rage and their stupid, flaccid, old-people sun hats with brims the breadth of Saturn's rings.”

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