Tumbling

Famous quotes containing the word tumbling:

    “The rider, the birds that range
    From cloud to tumbling cloud,
    Minute by minute they change;”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    ““What tumbling cloud did you cleave,
    Yellow-eyed hawk of the mind,
    Last evening? that I, who had sat
    Dumbfounded before a knave,
    Should give to my friend
    A pretence of wit.””
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “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 (1667–1745)