Tumbling Down Quotes:

It's much easier to become a hacker now. It was a private community before and you had to find your way in, like tumbling down a rabbit hole. Today, there are all-in-one desktops fully equipped with tools pre-built into the operating system, all related to hacking. They are all very powerful tools and free to download.

- Michael Demon Calce

topic: Powerful, Tumbling Down, Community, Tumbling, Rabbit Holes

Everybody in America started to define themselves by all these things they had around them. And all of a sudden it came tumbling down. So the old American dream has died, and that is a good thing.

- Suze Orman

source: "Suze Orman on the 'New' American Dream" by Vicki Mabrey, abcnews.go.com. March 8, 2011.

topic: Dream, Tumbling Down, America, Tumbling

Do you know how sometimes - when you are riding your bike and you start skidding across sand, or when you miss a step and start tumbling down the stairs - you have those long, long seconds to know that you are going to be hurt, and badly?

- Jodi Picoult

source: Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

topic: Hurt, Riding Your Bike, Tumbling Down, Tumbling

Let the shameful walls of exclusion finally come tumbling down.

- George H. W. Bush

source: George H.W. Bush (2009). “Speaking of Freedom: The Collected Speeches”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

topic: Wall, Tumbling Down, Exclusion, Tumbling

What's the most critical factor in any business decision you'll ever have to make? Basically, it boils down to this question: If this all crashes, will it bring the whole house tumbling down like a pack of cards? One business matra remains embedded in my brain - protect the downside.

- Richard Branson

topic: Tumbling Down, House, Decision, Tumbling, Business Decisions

It’s the end. It’s the end of the civilization. We’re going down. No, it’s sure not too attractive. Lenticels. I just hope my kids don’t live to see the last days. The things burning and people living in cellars. Violet. The only thing worse than the thought it may all come tumbling down is the thought that we may go on like this forever.

- Matthew Tobin Anderson

topic: Kids, Tumbling Down, Civilization, Tumbling, Cellars

The whole social structure is now tumbling down, dethroning its God, undermining all its certainties. All this, wonderfully enough, is being done in the name of the health, wealth, and happiness of all mankind.

- Malcolm Muggeridge

source: Malcolm Muggeridge (2005). “Conversion: The Spiritual Journey of a Twentieth Century Pilgrim”, p.61, Wipf and Stock Publishers

topic: Christian, Religious, Done, Social Structure, Tumbling

Sweeping from butcher's stalls, dung, guts, and blood, Drown'd puppies, stinking sprats, all drench'd in mud, Dead cats, and turnip-tops, come tumbling down the flood.

- Jonathan Swift

topic: Rain, Cat, Blood, Turnips, Tumbling Down

You need to circle the goals God wants you to go after, the promises God wants you to claim, and the dreams God wants you to pursue. And once you spell Jericho, you need to circle it in prayer. Then you need to keep circling until the walls come tumbling down.

- Mark Batterson

topic: Dream, Prayer, Wall, Tumbling Down

The boarded-up homes, the decaying storefronts, the aging church rolls, kids from unknown families who swaggered down the streets - loud congregations of teenage boys, teenage girls feeding potato chips to crying toddlers, the discarded wrappers tumbling down the block - all of it whispered painful truths.

- Barack Obama

source: Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.157, Canongate Books

topic: Girl, Teenage, Block, Tumbling, Painful Truth

We have seen some of the greatest athletes fall because they have tried to take shortcuts. I'm not going to call any names but we talk about guys that was like at the top of their game that people just idolized. They looked in awe and all of a sudden you see them just come tumbling down because they want to take shortcuts. I think it's more rewarding when you do it the old fashioned way.

- Jerry Rice

topic: Fall, Athlete, Thinking, Tumbling Down, Idolized

I might have arguments with the size of Reagan's military buildup, but given the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, staying ahead of the Soviets militarily seemed a sensible thing to do. Pride in our country, respect for our armed services, a healthy appreciation for the dangers beyond our borders, an insistence that there was no easy equivalence between East and West--in all this I had no quarrel with Reagan. And when the Berlin Wall came tumbling down, I had to give the old man his due, even if I never gave him my vote.

- Barack Obama

source: Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.289, Canongate Books

topic: Country, Appreciation, Wall, Tumbling, Armed Services

Exposed! shines a harsh light on the myriad horrors of modern society and reports back from the fearful frontlines with wicked wit and paranoid power. From the murky waters of New Orleans to the scarred psyches of our own image-obsessed existence, Exposed! is the last headline we get to read before reality comes tumbling down.

- Jeremy Robert Johnson

topic: Psych, Reality, New Orleans, Tumbling, Frontline

Kids use words in ways that release hidden meanings, revel the history buried in sounds. They haven't forgotten that words can be more than signs, that words have magic, the power to be things, to point to themselves and materialize. With their back-formations, archaisms, their tendency to play the music in words--rhythm, rhyme, alliteration, repetition--children peel the skin from language. Words become incantatory. Open Sesame. Abracadabra. Perhaps a child will remember the word and will bring the walls tumbling down.

- John Edgar Wideman

topic: Children, Wall, Kids, Tumbling, Language Words

I had wanted to live forever as a gypsy girl; I had wanted to live forever as a child, tumbling down a rabbit hole. I had been granted both wishes, only to find immortality was not what it had promised to be; instead of a passport to the future, it was a yoke that bound me to the past.

- Melanie Benjamin

topic: Girl, Children, Past, Tumbling, Rabbit Holes

You're walking through a field all by yourself one day in spring and this sweet little bear cub with velvet fur and shiny little eyes comes walking along. And he says to you, 'Hi, there, little lady. Want to tumble with me?' So you and the bear spend the whole day in each other's arms, tumbling down this clover-covered hill. Nice, huh?

- Haruki Murakami

topic: Sweet, Spring, Nice, Tumbling, Clovers