Leafs Quotes
394 quotes by 313 authors
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How much intelligence does it take to sneak up on a leaf?
— Larry Niven
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Lay down these words Before your mind like rocks. placed solid, by hands In choice of place, set Before the body of the mind in…
— Gary Snyder
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Love, she thought, must come suddenly, with great outbursts and lightnings,--a hurricane of the skies, which falls upon life, revolutionises it, roots up the will…
— Gustave Flaubert
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Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless…
— A. E. Housman
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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
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Love all God’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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Stories help me. To live. To work. To find the meaning hidden in every dream, ever leaf, every drop of dew.
— T.A. Barron
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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