#fallen

In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#another #arisen #attack #conquest #empires

I think she just asked if she could touch my mango. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#humor #jace-lightwood #mortal-instruments #humor

We see less of Dave, certainly, and he's kind of fallen out of the sphere of our group, mostly because he's working on his show, and has kind of lost the fun of the party. ↗

— Bruce McCulloch

#certainly #dave #fallen #fun #group

If the graves of the thousands of victims who have fallen in the terrible wars of the two races had been placed in line the philanthropist might travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, and be constantly in sight of green mounds. ↗

— Nelson A. Miles

#been #constantly #fallen #graves #green

Dixie has just fallen to pieces. There are little patches of Dixie. But even in the heart of Dixie - in Alabama - Dixie is slipping. They've stopped using the word in commercial listings. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#commercial #dixie #even #fallen #heart

I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them. ↗

— Anne Rice

#even #even now #fallen #i #i love

The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free. ↗

— George W. Bush

#free #iraq #tyrant

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times. ↗

— Rita Rudner

#before #fallen #few #husband #i

It is very possible that I could have ended up on 80 acres of land by myself, and fallen in love at a distance with a gorgeous woman I could never have been with. ↗

— Peter Sarsgaard

#been #could #distance #ended #fallen

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#asleep #be thankful #eyes #fallen #forgets