Alighting Quotes

#1. Sean Corcoran and his wife saw a large, dark creature that swam across the lake before alighting on a rock and standing on its back legs, giving it a height of about 1.7 m. Curiously, its flipper-like extremities were red or orange.

Darren Naish

#2. Think of a ball of steel as large as the world, and a fly alighting on it once every million years. When the ball of steel is rubbed away by the friction, eternity will not even have begun.

David Lodge

#3. A few feathery flakes are scattered widely through the air, and hover downward with uncertain flight, now almost alighting on the earth, now whirled again aloft into remote regions of the atmosphere.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#4. That was the first time I ever saw Anton Jelinek.

Willa Cather

#5. Bill Dickey learned me all his experience.

Yogi Berra

#6. A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin.

Tom Stoppard

#7. Would you believe I was a famous star? It's the truth.

Hedy Lamarr

#8. whatever that he left by the 6.15. That gets up to London about 10.30. He went straight to

Agatha Christie

#9. The bastard even limped fast.

Rosemary Clement-Moore

#10. His concern was that if there were a few rights specified in the Constitution, future generations may forget that those are just examples and that the Constitution itself protects all human rights.

Thom Hartmann

#11. That is the great luxury of long-existing and accepted segregation in New York and almost every other major city of our nation nowadays. Nothing needs to be imposed on anyone. The evil is already set in stone. We just move in.

Jonathan Kozol

#12. It's human nature - we want to believe our children, our families, our President!

Richard Gere