Leaf Quotes

476 quotes by 381 authors

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf. — Rabindranath Tagore
When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off… — Donna Tartt
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its… — Henry David Thoreau
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. — Walt Whitman
Did you ever, in that wonderland wilderness of adolesence [sic] ever, quite unexpectedly, see something, a dusk sky, a wild bird, a landscape, so exquisite… — Truman Capote
I am the last leaf on the tree, and the wind is blowing. — Gordon B. Hinckley
The leaf fall of his words, the stained glass hues of his moods, the rust in his voice, the smoke in his mouth, his breath… — Anais Nin
Canadians are fond of a good disaster, especially if it has ice, water, or snow in it. You thought the national flag was about a… — Margaret Atwood
One of the things that makes a dead leaf fall to the ground is the bud of the new leaf that pushes it off the… — Jan Karon
Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf.… — Robert Frost
I still feel like a castaway, th elast of a once numerous species. It was as though Robinson Crusoe discovered the telltale footprint on the… — Audrey Niffenegger
But what I really want is to just swim around in a warm baby pool of these friends, jump in their dry leaf pile-to rub… — Dave Eggers
The strongest must seek a way, say you? But I say: let a ploughman plough, but choose an otter for swimming, and for running light… — J.R.R. Tolkien
In the fury of the moment/ I can see the Master's hand In every leaf that trembles, in/ every grain of sand. — Bob Dylan
(Ravic speaking of a butterfly caught in the Louvre) In the morning it would search for flowers and life and the light honey of blossoms… — Erich Maria Remarque
When I die, don't come, I wouldn't want a leaf to turn away from the sun -- it loves it there. There's nothing so spiritual… — Frank O'Hara
Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea… — Boris Pasternak
It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything all right. It didn't make ANYTHING all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing.… — Khaled Hosseini
They will come back, come back again, As long as the red earth rolls. He never wasted a leaf or a tree. Do you think… — Rudyard Kipling
My father moved through theys of we, singing each new leaf out of each tree, (and every child was sure that spring danced when she… — Mitch Albom

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