Leaf Quotes

476 quotes by 381 authors

I once asked my father for a dollar for the school picnic. He told me how he once killed a grizzly bear with his loose-leaf… — Bill Cosby
I have a maple leaf tattoo over my heart, quite literally, and my two favorite things on Earth are being in Canada and making movies. — Jay Baruchel
Fall in love so madly that every leaf whispers words of love to your lover. Every raindrop explodes with only one word as it hits… — Shekhar Kapur
Ignorance is a treasure of infinite price that most men squander, when they should cherish its least fragments; some ruin it by educating themselves, others,… — Paul Valery
Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have… — Zhang Yimou
I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side. — Saul Bellow
Cell and tissue, shell and bone, leaf and flower, are so many portions of matter, and it is in obedience to the laws of physics… — D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
Yes, there was music after all. The sound of the swamp rose up to him. The sound of frogs and crickets, of birds and 'gators,… — Robert R. McCammon
Basked in the sun,listened to birds,licked off raindrops,and only in flightthe leaf saw the treeand graspedwhat it had been. — Vera Pavlova
If you take any flower you please and look it over and turn it about and smell it and feel it and try to find… — Gertrude Jekyll
'Ever seen a leaf - a leaf from a tree?' 'Yes.' I saw one recently - a yellow one, a little green, wilted at the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's in the democratic citizen's nature to be like a leaf that doesn't believe in the tree it's part of. — David Foster Wallace
You will begin to realize that if you contemplate long enough on the leaf of the flower, that it involves the whole universe. — Alan Watts
I found every breath of air, and every scent, and every flower and leaf and blade of grass and every passing cloud, and everything in… — Charles Dickens
A plaque hanging on the wall of my home invites me to remember where I came from-each day. It reads, "No matter if a tree… — Mary Ellen W. Smoot
I wish they would use English instead of Greek words. When I want to know why a leaf is green, they tell me it is… — John Ruskin
The hopeless hope is one of the early harbingers of spring, bespeaking an innocent belief that the world might right its wrongs and reverse its… — Aleksandar Hemon
If the book is second-hand, I leave all its markings intact, the spoor of previous readers, fellow-travellers who have recorded their passage by means of… — Alberto Manguel
In my beginning is my end. In succession Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended, Are removed, destroyed, restored, or in their place Is an… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him. — Henry Ward Beecher

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