Leaf Quotes

476 quotes by 381 authors

Love, to her, was something hat comes suddenly, like a blinding flash of lightening - a heaven-sent storm hurled into life, uprooting it, sweeping every… — Gustave Flaubert
Love all Godâ€™s creation, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Most people...are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flutters, and falls to the ground. But a few others are like… — Hermann Hesse
On his brow a leaf of oaken, Cangeling child shall be his fate. Understanding words strange spoken, Chased by anger, fear, and hate. — David Clement-Davies
That knowledge humbles me, melts my bones, closes my ears, and makes my teeth rock loosely in their gums. And it also liberates me. I… — Maya Angelou
A commission of haberdashers could alone have reported what the rest of her poor dress was made of, but it had a strong general resemblance… — Charles Dickens
Since the first human eye saw a leaf in Devonian sandstone and a puzzled finger reached to touch it, sadness has lain over the heart… — Loren Eiseley
The earth will never be the same again Rock, water, tree, iron, share this greif As distant stars participate in the pain. A candle snuffed,… — Madeleine L'Engle
If you have your attention on what is see its fullness in every moment you will discover the dance of the divine in every leaf… — Deepak Chopra
Stories help me. To live. To work. To find the meaning hidden in every dream, ever leaf, every drop of dew. — T.A. Barron
The wind picks up. It sends leaves scurrying for cover until a softer breeze blows through, settling them down again as if to say, Shhh,… — Libba Bray
He sat on as the sun's rays came slowly down through the trees, lower and lower, and when the lowest reached a branch not far… — Patrick O'Brian
As she read, at peace with the world and happy as only a little girl could be with a fine book and a little bowl… — Betty Smith
The spring without a leaf to toss, bare and bright like a virgin fierce in her chastity, scornful in her purity, was laid out on… — Virginia Woolf
Cats have a sort of game they play when they meet. A player alternates between watching the strange cat and ignoring her, grooming or examining… — Kij Johnson
But the truth, he knows, is otherwise. His pleasure in living has been snuffed out. Like a leaf on a stream, like a puffball on… — J M Coetzee
If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. — Michael Crichton
I shake my head. I pick up the rake and start making the dead-leaf pile neater. A blister pops and stains the rake handle like… — Laurie Halse Anderson
Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our local communities, and… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Birth, life, and deathâ€• each took place on the hidden side of a leaf. — Toni Morrison

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