Leaf Quotes
476 quotes by 381 authors
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It’s spring! Farewell To chills and colds! The blushing, girlish World unfolds Each flower, leaf And blade of sod— Small letters sent To her from…
— John Updike
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It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. Robinson Crusoe was rather a moralist than a pietist, and his…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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NovemberÂ’s days are thirty: NovemberÂ’s earth is dirty, Those thirty days, from first to last; And the prettiest things on ground are the paths.... Few…
— Edward Thomas
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...Winter, the aged chief, Mighty in power, Exiles the tender leaf, Exiles the flower.
— Robert Fuller Murray
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What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf.
— Vincent Van Gogh
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The urban man is an uprooted tree, he can put out leaves, flowers and grow fruit but what a nostalgia his leaf, flower, and fruit…
— Juan Ramon Jimenez
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Once something has outlived its usefulness in one area of life, its purpose for being in existence is no longer the same. The leaf that…
— Guy Finley
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Beyond age, leaf withered, man goes three footed no stronger than a child is, a dream that falters in daylight.
— Aeschylus
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If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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Leaf fans loyalty is unshakeable. The fans keep coming back and it hurts, I have been there. I have lost in game six to go…
— Curtis Joseph
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Once you change the technology - from a film camera to a video camera, or from an 8-mm camera to 16 mm - you change…
— Jonas Mekas
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Beauty is a fairy; sometimes she hides herself in a flower-cup, or under a leaf, or creeps into the old ivy, and plays hide-and-seek with…
— George Augustus Henry Sala
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My end goal in the piano is to play Scott Joplin's 'Maple Leaf Rag.
— Miranda Leek
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I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars, And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of…
— Walt Whitman
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Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. Loving all, you will perceive the mystery of…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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If there is a reason to believe in God, it would be the Havana Leaf.
— Norman Lear
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Consider The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief:-- We are as they; Like them we fade away As doth a leaf.
— Christina Rossetti
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In constructing concepts, we overlook the fact that no two things are the same. There is no such thing as the concept of a leaf,…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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A painting or sculpture not modelled on any real object is every bit as concrete and sensuous as a leaf or a stone... but it…
— Hans Arp
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That headlong ivy! not a leaf will grow But thinking of a wreath, . . . I like such ivy; bold to leap a height…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Who Wrote These Leaf Quotes
381 authors contributed a total of 476 Leaf Quotes, led by these top contributors: