Cliffs Quotes
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As I grew older - collapsing into my seventies, glimpsing ahead the cliffs of the eighties, colliding into eighty-five - poetry abandoned me.
— Donald Hall
looking about him at the cliffs and up at our signboard. "This is a handy cove," says he at length; "and a pleasant
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Trees can grow from tiny cracks in stony cliffs, Kate. This may be a very small crack indeed - but it's a beginning.
— Mary Jo Putney
The ragged cliff has thousand faces in a thousand hours.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
— Kurt Vonnegut
There is something about writing poetry that brings a man close to the cliff's edge.
— Charles Bukowski
I believe God spoke to you at cliffs. Her hand came to rest on the top of my head. But perhaps you weren't truly listening
— Jenny B. Jones
O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall
Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. — Gerard Manley Hopkins
Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. — Gerard Manley Hopkins
I don't see the point in apologizing to someone who remains angry enough to throw me off a cliff ... unless we are standing by a cliff.
— Wes Fesler
I am no longer tied to the cliffs
Threats don't hold any ground
I have decided to fly high
On the winds of cool complacence — Balroop Singh
Threats don't hold any ground
I have decided to fly high
On the winds of cool complacence — Balroop Singh
Some run the cliffs, and set upon an eagle's wings. Others mire in the den, and once within, can never leave again.
— Chris Galford
Cathedrals do not seem to me to have been built. They seem, rather, stupendous growths of nature, like crystals, or cliffs of basalt.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
Hills tell old stories. Cliffs are poets with harps
— George MacKay
From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline.
— Robert Smithson
Life is a walk to the edge of a cliff. Every day we get a step nearer and what lies over the brink, no one can tell.
— Deepak Chopra
For most people, I edit. Most people are definitely getting along on the Cliffs Notes.
— Suzanne Finnamore
You can't drive to the coastline. You can only drive so close to the white chalky cliff and then you have to get out and dive.
— Joyelle McSweeney
Watch out for cliffs on the left. Fatal spot again.
— Karl Meltzer
I spent the first 18 years of my life in the pastoral town of Vernal, Utah, in the shadows of the Book Cliffs and the Uinta Mountains.
— Gordon Gee
I'm an adrenaline junkie. I love climbing crazy trees or cliffs, which doesn't make my mom very happy.
— Stephen Colletti
It's like standing on the edge of a cliff. This is especially true of the first draft. Every day you're making up the earth you're going to stand on.
— Peter Carey
The wild sea roars and lashes the granite cliffs below,And round the misty islets the loud strong tempests blow.
— Mary Howitt
Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs.
— P. J. O'Rourke
If only it was an island rather than a pretty sleeping dog with sand on its paws and cliffs on its shoulders, waiting to wake it up and tear it.
— Kendare Blake
Lionblaze confessed as they skirted the top of the cliffs that surrounded the hollow. Cinderheart is expecting my kits.
— Erin Hunter
The sun is setting in a burnt orange sky; the cliffs are black silhouettes; the sea, liquid silver.
— Laura Treacy Bentley
I'm not a lemming about to run off the end of a cliff.
— Glenn Roeder
I've learned to deal with stress. In fact, things that would make the next person go over a cliff don't even make my radar anymore.
— Kate Gosselin
At the edge of the cliffs, the wind is a smack, and D-day becomes wildly clear: climbing that cutting edge into the bullets.
— John Vinocur
The only man who can stop Cliff Robinson is Cliff Robinson. The man is unstoppable even at 38.
— Bill Walton
Dumb hope is what it hurts most to write, occupying the foolish schemes we pursued for decades, the blind alleys, the cliffs we stepped off.
— Mary Karr
I've succeeded as far as I'm concerned - I don't feel that I have any cliffs I could fall over anytime soon.
— Shania Twain
Sydney's most famous beach is Bondi. At its southern end is Bondi Baths, an eight-lane, 50-meter saltwater pool built into the cliffs.
— Raymond Bonner
Thoale alone knows why suicides are so fond of jumping off cliffs and bridges; they wouldn't if they knew what that trip's like.
— Peter F. Hamilton
A souvenir of those years is a small cottage on the cliffs of Cornwall, where Joyce and I spend a spring month every year, hiking and seeing friends.
— Philip Warren Anderson
Sometimes, when the wind hits hard and icicles form on the sea cliffs, we can all come together - and at those times, we are at our best.
— John Burnside
As a kid, when I got to the edge of a cliff I wanted to jump off. I didn't want to kill myself. I wanted to fly.
— Tom Cruise
For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Searching for a mind long lost I found it shaping colors and history near the cliffs of your heart.
— Aberjhani
Only the most extraordinary men can choose the remote cliffs as their graveyards; others are always condemned to nearby city gardens!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.
— Thornton Wilder
When civilization stands at the edge of a cliff, a step forward doesn't make much sense.
— Denis Hayes
We may scale cliffs; but to tramp forever in the mud is another thing.
— Honore De Balzac
I see the cliffs, glaciers, torrents, valleys of Switzerland - I mark the long winters and the isolation.
— Walt Whitman
I'm constantly jumping off cliffs and developing my wings on the way down ... It's a gamble, a ... spiritual gamble. You are who you choose to be.
— Shia Labeouf
All day he hung round the cove or upon the cliffs with a brass telescope;
— Robert Louis Stevenson