Leafs Quotes
394 quotes by 313 authors
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A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape,…
— Anais Nin
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The harsh truth is, most red-haired men look like blondes who've spoiled from lack of refrigeration. They look like brown-haired men who've been composted out…
— Tom Robbins
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Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the…
— Albert Schweitzer
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I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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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
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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
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I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
— Walt Whitman
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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
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I am the last leaf on the tree, and the wind is blowing.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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(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
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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
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