Apple And Fall Quotes

#1. When Adam ate the irrevocable apple, Thou
Saw'st beyond death the resurrection of the dead

C.S. Lewis

#2. F a special geometry has to be invented in order to account for a falling apple, even Newton might be appalled at the complications which would ensue when really difficult problems are tackled.

Oliver Lodge

#3. Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.

J.K. Rowling

#4. For the birth of something new, there has to be a happening. Newton saw an apple fall; James Watt watched a kettle boil; Rontgen fogged some photographic plates. And these people knew enough to translate ordinary happenings into something new ...

Alexander Fleming

#5. (The story that Newton was inspired by an apple hitting his head is almost certainly apocryphal. All Newton himself ever said was that the idea of gravity came to him as he sat "in a contemplative mood" and "was occasioned by the fall of an apple.")

Stephen Hawking

#6. We know there is gravity because apples fall from trees. We can observe gravity in daily life. If we could throw an apple to the edge of the universe, we would observe it accelerating.

Adam Riess

#7. I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton's head.

A.C. Grayling

#8. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree ... unless that tree's growing on top of a hill.

John DePrey

#9. Remember the golden apple-trees;
O, do not pity them, as you watch them drop
one by one,
for they fall exhausted, numb, blind
but in certain ecstasy,
for theirs is the hunger for Paradise.

H.D.

#10. Like a satellite in orbit, Apple is perpetually falling. It just happens to miss Earth every time.

Horace Dediu

#11. The Blossoms and leaves in plenty From the apple tree fall each day; The merry breezes approach them, And with them merrily play.

Heinrich Heine

#12. Millions saw the apple fall, Newton was the only one who asked why?

Bernard M. Baruch

#13. Lo! sweeten'd with the summer light,
The full-juiced apple, waxing over-mellow,
Drops in a silent autumn night.
All its allotted length of days
The flower ripens in its place,
Ripens and fades, and falls, and hath no toil,
Fast-rooted in the fruitful soil.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#14. My mom says the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, but I'm hopeful that their tree was on a hill and I'm rolling farther away as write

Kristin Billerbeck

#15. It must have appeared almost as improbable to the earlier geologists, that the laws of earthquakes should one day throw light on the origin of mountains, as it must to the first astronomers, that the fall of an apple should assist in explaining the motions of the moon.

Charles Lyell

#16. The revolution is not an apple that falls when ripe. You have to make it fall.

Ernesto Che Guevara

#17. You're all I need and maybe some faith would do me good.

Fiona Apple

#18. The wind is tossing the lilacs,
The new leaves laugh in the sun,
And the petals fall on the orchard wall,
But for me the spring is done.
Beneath the apple blossoms
I go a wintry way,
For love that smiled in April
Is false to me in May.

Sara Teasdale

#19. They lit candles on the table, all while the apple tree shook and blossoms continued to fall. When the petals hit the flames of the candles, they hissed and popped into ash, leaving behind a scent that was so beautiful and sweet that it smelled like both yesterday and tomorrow.

Sarah Addison Allen

#20. Sometimes you have to walk out on a limb, knowing you could fall thirty feet to the hard ground, just to see if that apple on the edge is worth the risk like you think it is."
"And what if it's not?"
"Then you get up, dust yourself off, and keep walking til you find the next tree.

Kandi Steiner

#21. And make us as Newton was, who in his garden watching The apple falling towards England, became aware Between himself and her of an eternal tie.

W. H. Auden

#22. Apple"

Sometimes when eating an apple
I bite too far
and open the little room
the lovers have prepared,
and the seeds fall out
onto the kitchen floor
and I see
that they are tear-shaped.

Jay Leeming

#23. I grew it - sorry, drew it - for this book, if for no other reason than to illustrate the old saying that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

Connor Franta

#24. The goldenrod is yellow,
The corn is turning brown ...
The trees in apple orchards
With fruit are bending down.

Helen Hunt Jackson

#25. Never sit under a tree waiting for the apple to fall. Climb the tree, grab that apple!
When it comes, never be inert and take your time, TIME TO MOVE!

Tsem Tulku Rinpoche

#26. When an apple has ripened and falls, why does it fall? Because of its attraction to the earth, because its stalk withers, because it is dried by the sun, because it grows heavier, because the wind shakes it, or because the boy standing below wants to eat it?

Leo Tolstoy

#27. The apple blossom exists to create fruit; when that
comes, the petal falls.

Kabir

#28. First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.

Martin Luther

#29. My heart went cold and only hollow rhythms resounded from within, but then he rose, brilliant as the moon in full and sank in the burrows of my keep, and all my armor, falling down, in a pile at my feet.

Fiona Apple

#30. American financier Bernard Baruch once remarked, 'Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why.

Ashwin Sanghi

#31. Some of Bay's fondest memories were of lying under the apple tree in the summer while Claire gardened and the apple tree tossed apples at her like a dog trying to coax its owner into playing catch.

Sarah Addison Allen

#32. The apple does not fall far from the tree.

Harper Lee

#33. Fall for me, as an apple falls, as rain falls, because you must. Use gravity to anchor your desire.

Jeanette Winterson

#34. No matter how well prepared you are in life, you're gonna fall down a hole, and if you can fix the frayed ends of things, then you're better off.

Fiona Apple

#35. Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hundred and first.

Derek Landy

#36. Mental Note #50: The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, even though it most desperately wants to. - Notes from Ellen Wasserfeldman

Alisa Steinberg

#37. I think in any father-son relationship, there's going to be times you say, 'Well, the apple didn't fall far from the tree.'

Michael Raymond-James

#38. Here is a quote I used to post on the chalkboard once and a while for my students:

Education is not going to fall out of a tree and bonk you on the head -like an apple- you have to dig for it, much like digging for Gold...

Miles Cobbett

#39. I thought I knew everything. There's the challenge fate loves best, isn't it? I was ripe for a fall and so ... the apple.

Megan Chance

#40. I am a garden of earthly delights.
I am the apple you would fall for a thousand times.

Diane Lockward

#41. I'm not smart, but I like to observe.
Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why,

William Hazlitt

#42. NEWTONIAN, Pertaining to a philosophy of the universe invented by Newton, who discovered that an apple will fall to the ground, but was unable to say why. His successors and disciples have advanced so far as to be able to say when.

Ambrose Bierce