Doing Backflips Quotes & Sayings

One day Augustus asked Newt to ride along with him, much to Newt's surprise. In the morning they saw a grizzly, but the bear was far upwind and didn't scent them. It was a beautiful day - no clouds in the sky. Augustus rode with his big rifle propped across the saddle - he was in the highest of spirits. They rode ahead of the herd some fifteen miles or more, and yet when they stopped to look back they could still see the cattle, tiny black dots in the middle of the plain, with the southern horizon still far behind them. — Larry McMurtry

What miracle is this? This giant tree.
It stands ten thousand feet high
But doesn't reach the ground. Still it stands.
Its roots must hold the sky. — Mark Z. Danielewski

Today, questioning oneself about Europe means asking oneself how one relates to Germany. — Claudio Magris

She laughed, and the desert sang. — Jerry Spinelli

That's something I do, like, all the time. I just do backflips off things. — Channing Tatum

I first got very thin after Ashley. I felt like my stomach was doing backflips - like my emotions had taken over and made me full. — Cheryl Cole

There would never be room for an onigiri in a fruits basket. — Natsuki Takaya

I'm very acrobatic. I can do backflips and all that crazy stuff. — Jason Mitchell

Sweet Sunday afternoons, beneath the chestnut-tree in our Combray garden, from which I was careful to eliminate every commonplace incident of my actual life, replacing them by a career of strange adventures and ambitions in a land watered by living streams, you still recall those adventures and ambitions to my mind when I think of you, and you embody and preserve them by virtue of having little by little drawn round and enclosed them (which I went on with my book and the heat of the day declined) in the gradual crystallization, slowly altering in form and dappled with a pattern of chestnut-leaves, of your silent, sonorous, fragrant, limpid hours. — Marcel Proust

To learn to do backflips and front flips, you had to fall and bump your head a couple times. I've been doing them since I was a little one, though. Just something I've enjoyed doing, just flip. — Marshawn Lynch

A little backflip (backflips), but it's not part of Parkour, but i like doing this since i did gym. — David Belle

Each paradigm will be shown to satisfy more or less the criteria that it dictates for itself and to fall short of a few of those dictated by its opponent. — Thomas Kuhn

I think that the word feminism doesn't imply enough in terms of solidarity with other liberation struggles. I am firmly committed to the notion that no one group can be freed until all groups are freed. — Sally Potter

[On men:] ... you never know what they're like until you get them home and take them out of their packages. — Karin Slaughter

We couldn't say her name often enough. It tickled us to mention her name to strangers and watch the expressions on their faces.
Girls liked her. Boys liked her. And
most remarkable
the attention came from all kinds of kids: shy mice and princesses, jocks and eggheads. — Jerry Spinelli

I used to try and do backflips a lot, but I used to bang my head more often than not, so I gave it up. — Antony Starr

Here's where things get hazy. John claims that the men hauling him away from the scene were escorted by other men carrying submachine guns, though when pressed, he admitted that they may have been flashlights. Either way, John says the men threw him down and intended to execute him, at which point he kicked one of the men in the face and backflipped to his feet. He then wrestled away the man's gun and "dick-whipped" him with it. I am unclear as to whether or not this means he struck the man in the groin or merely slapped him in the same manner in which he would slap a person with his dick. I never ask John to clarify such things. Anyway, he said he swung again and slammed another man's skull with the gun, so hard it "made the batteries fly out. — David Wong

I know a lot of a cappella groups, but none of them are doing backflips while singing, for sure. — Chrissie Fit

[O]nce you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand. - The Skin Horse from The Velveteen Rabbit — Margery Williams

People see my face, they hear my voice, and I know they're thinking about my father. That's OK - he was a great man. — Dhani Harrison

Taking Morgana with it, the lightning arced back through the clouds; leaving behind nothing but the last echoing remains of her scream. — Sam Whitehouse

You're driving me fucking crazy!"
"There's a short trip! — Abigail Roux

Anything under God's control is never out of control. — Charles R. Swindoll