Leaf Quotes

476 quotes by 381 authors

A lone maple leaf resting on sand Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon, and… — Stephen Leacock
Lord, I do fear Thou'st made the world too beautiful this year My soul is all but out of me-let fall No burning leaf; prithee,… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
The once red leaf, the last of its clan, that dances as often as dance it can. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I like Toronto a lot, it's a good city. The only thing that really annoys me about Toronto is that you're turning Maple Leaf Gardens… — Rick Wakeman
The leaf, still green, must someday fall such grief and joy to live at all. — T.A. Barron
Not a leaf moves in this country if I'm not moving it. — Augusto Pinochet
Words [are] more beautiful than a found fall leaf. — William H. Gass
The sickness rolled through me in great waves. After each wave it would fade away and leave me limp as a wet leaf and shivering… — Sylvia Plath
And what a congress of stinks!- Roots ripe as old bait, Pulpy stems, rank, silo-rich, Leaf mold, manure, lime, piled against slippery planks, Nothing would… — Theodore Roethke
There is a door. It opens. Then it is closed. But a slip of light stays, like a scrap of unreadable paper left on the… — Jane Hirshfield
You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages. — Mignon McLaughlin
If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model, your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves; but Nature offers… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
I was a pebble. I was a leaf. I was the jagged branch of a tree. I was nothing to them and they were everything… — Cheryl Strayed
He began to search among the infinite series of impressions which time had laid down, leaf upon leaf, fold upon fold softly, incessantly upon his… — Virginia Woolf
Every leaf that grows will tell you: what you sow will bear fruit, so if you have any sense my friend, don't plant anything but… — Rumi
I turn over a new leaf every day. But the blots show through. — Keith Waterhouse
I've turned over a new leaf. On TV, Kenny Wallace said I was a pessimist after Charlotte, so I got mad. Now I am so… — Mark Martin
People will never understand the patience a photographer requires to make a great photograph, all they see is the end result. I can stand in… — Alfred Eisenstaedt
A Leaf Man's got to go where the wind blows. — Lois Ehlert
For Europe, for ourselves and for humanity, comrades, we must turn over a new leaf, we must work out new concepts, and try to set… — Frantz Fanon

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