Top 33 Felled Quotes
#1. Drew had never before shot like he did that day, nor has he since. It was something to see. The contest had just begun when he walked up, aimed, and felled a cluster from the very top of the boughs.
Deeanne Gist
#2. When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
Thomas Carlyle
#3. Wolf, he hewed at one man who had leaped forward with his sword raised when he had fallen, and felled him with a blow on the temples. Then he sprang at Krok, who stood just behind him; all this happened
Anonymous
#4. When a tree, a natural product, is felled, is society put into possession of no greater produce than that of the mere labour of the woodman?
Jean-Baptiste Say
#5. How many of these children would one day be queer? How many would be felled by the acronym? How many by something else? How many would forget the circus? How many would never see it at all? How many would join?
Trebor Healey
#6. He's stronger than this. He's always been stronger ... (Vane)
Even the mightiest oak can be felled by a whisper of a wind if it comes on the heels of a powerful enough storm. (Carson)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#7. And there rose in her an unmastering desire to overcome her; to unmask her. If she could have felled her it would have eased her. But it was not the body; it was the soul and its mockery that she wished to subdue; make feel her mastery.
Virginia Woolf
#8. Pain has many faces ... the unseen part of man is often the victim of the most debilitating of pains ... a man can endure excruciating physical pain, and yet he can be felled by one unkind word.
Billy Graham
#9. If you are sitting on a felled tree in a pine forest enjoying the sunshine you can easily forget what time it is. Not that you could forget your gold watch, just the time of day.
Elfriede Jelinek
#10. The silence after a felled tree has fallen is like the silence immediately after a death. The same sense of culmination.
John Berger
#11. She was almost felled to the ground by the extraordinary sight which now met her eyes. There was the garden and some birds. The world was going on as usual. All the time she was writing the world had continued.
Virginia Woolf
#12. We had taken her for granted until she was no longer there, like an ancient tree you don't truly see until it is felled, and then only from the empty space in the sky do you suddenly grasp its stature.
Karen Maitland
#13. Fate slew him, but he did not drop;
She felled
he did not fall
Impaled him on her fiercest stakes
He neutralized them all.
She stung him, sapped his firm advance,
But, when her worst was done,
And he, unmoved, regarded her,
Acknowledge him a man.
Emily Dickinson
#14. What manly task may I perform for you?"
"If you care for me at all, you'll slay a dragon."
"Such a simple task to prove my devotion? For you, I will gladly take up this quest. Why, by the age of ten, I had already felled my first ogre.
Betsy Schow
#15. ...buzzing with the kind of commanding energy that felled trees and whistled teakettles..
Shari Goldhagen
#16. I walked right into a girl, broadsided her, felled her like a tree. I saw, to my horror, that it was Jennifer Lopez.
David Wong
#17. He had held out shakily, like a tree that had been hacked down to its breaking point. But that kiss was the last swing, the final impact, and he gave in finally, felled.
Sarah Blakley-Cartwright
#19. But men are cutting down the trees without replacing them. For every tree that's felled, we must plant two. Otherwise, one day there'll be no forests at all, and the world will become one great desert.
Ruskin Bond
#21. Even when they have been felled, let alone when they are still standing and fighting, they never disgrace themselves,
Tom Holland
#22. After the last tree is felled, Christ will come back.
James G. Watt
#23. Trees, for example, carry the memory of rainfall. In their rings we read ancient weather - storms, sunlight, and temperatures, the growing seasons of centuries. A forest shares a history, which each tree remembers even after it has been felled.
Anne Michaels
#24. I think half the trees in the world are felled to make up the IIT entrance exam guides. Most of them are crap,
Chetan Bhagat
#25. A mighty oak can be felled by even the tiniest of insects when one allows them to continually gnaw at it. (Callie's Mother)
Kinley MacGregor
#26. The rigid tree will be felled.
Laozi
#27. I cannot help but find it telling that she successfully felled two grown men in a single day." Mater's eyes slid to Corbin's bruised face. "If I had to guess, I would say she has experience defending herself physically against men. Not a very comforting thought.
Sarah M. Eden
#28. The last remnants of Deanna the child--the idealist, the sheltered elite--had been torn loose by tonight's tragedies, slain with the same bullet that had felled her would-be killer. She had no idea who the new person inhabiting this shell of her old self would become. The realization frightened her.
Leslie Ann Moore
#29. In a livid wet dress, under the tumbling mist ... had run ecstatically up that ridge above Moulinet to be felled there by a thunderbolt.
Vladimir Nabokov
#30. And therefore a giant hammer of pure stupidity lashed out of the screen and felled me again. I lay mewling, clutching my head with my sweaty hands, whimpering for my Mommy to make it stop. MAKE IT STOP!
But it did not stop. It. Did. Not. Stop.
The Desolation of Tolkien
John C. Wright
#31. Grief-stricken. Stricken is right; it is as though you had been felled. Knocked to the ground; pitched out of life and into something else.
Penelope Lively
#32. So now get up.'
Felled, dazed, silent, he has fallen; knocked full length on the cobbles of the yard. His head turns sideways; his eyes are turned toward the gate, as if someone might arrive to help him out. One blow, properly placed, could kill him now.
Hilary Mantel
#33. I've come through things that would have felled an ox. That fills me with optimism, not just for myself but for our particular species.
Elizabeth Taylor
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