Leaf Quotes

476 quotes by 381 authors

If we are all strong, stable, we can set our sail with any wind in the world that comes along. We make up our own… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
How life is strange and changeful, and the crystal is in the steel at the point of fracture, and the toad bears a jewel in… — Robert Penn Warren
I donâ€™t want long hair, I donâ€™t want short hair, I donâ€™t want hair at all, and I donâ€™t want to be a girl or… — Sherman Alexie
A woman once described a friend of hers as being such a keen listener that even the trees leaned toward her, as if they were… — Linda Hogan
Art is the flower... life the green leaf. — Charles Rennie Mackintosh
I want to get under the surface. When I work with a leaf, rock, stick, it is not just that material in itself, it is… — Andy Goldsworthy
When Iâ€™m working with materials itâ€™s not just the leaf or the stone, itâ€™s the processes that are behind them that are important. Thatâ€™s what… — Andy Goldsworthy
For me looking, touching, material, place and form are all inseparable from the resulting work. It is difficult to say where one stops and another… — Andy Goldsworthy
If you work, if you wait, you will find the place where the four-leaf clovers grow. — Ella Higginson
Modern art must strike out from the old. The new is not revealed to those whose eyes are fastened in worship upon the oldâ€¦Have you… — Albert Pinkham Ryder
Heart-aches are forgotten, tears lose their bitterness, and like a leaf of lavendar in a store of linen, so does Memory make life sweet. — Myrtle Reed
We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth. — Elizabeth Kim
I pride myself on how little space I take up. I am going to shrink and shrink until I am a dry fall leaf, complete… — Julie Gregory
I do not know who lives here in my chest, or why the smile comes. I am not myself, more the bare green knob of… — Rumi
The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf. — Mark Twain
One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God… — Tryon Edwards
Oh lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed! — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the God of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and in short you are for ever… — Charles Dickens
If you are bitter you are like a dry leaf that you can squash and you can blow away by the wind. There is much… — Vusi Mahlasela
Labor is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul, Nor beauty born out of its own despair, Nor blear-eyed wisdom… — William Butler Yeats

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