Leaping Quotes

112 Leaping quotes by 95 unique authors

There is a time when every person who encounters Jesus, who believes Jesus is the Son of God, decides that they will spend their life… — Donald Miller
The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always… — Robert Cormier
I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for… — E E Cummings
Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and… — Maya Angelou
And I don't know if Batty's gotten over it yet,' said Skye. Mr. Penderwick looked out the window to where Batty was playing vampires with… — Jeanne Birdsall
Yes, here I am returning, the woman who bore herself to the bottom and back. Who wanted to swim like dolphins, leaping waves and diving.… — Sue Monk Kidd
Was there no safety? No learning by heart of the ways of the world? No guide, no shelter, but all was miracle, and leaping from… — Virginia Woolf
If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful. I… — Ray Bradbury
I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd. — H.G. Wells
The greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the brain, as a telegraphic message engraves itself on the ticker-tape, but the… — Romain Rolland
As we passed under a streetlamp I noticed, beside my own bobbing shadow, another great, leaping grotesquerie that had an uncanny suggestion of the frog… — Loren Eiseley
Like so many substantial citizens of America, he had married young and kept on marrying, springing from blonde to blonde like the chamois of the… — P.G. Wodehouse
But the act, called the sexual act, is not for the depositing of seed. It is for leaping off into the unknown, as from a… — D. H. Lawrence
You can give yourself a headache trying to decipher the tattoos on a naked man who’s leaping up and down on a bed. — John Irving
When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done… — Matsuo Basho
It is very useful, when one is young, to learn the difference between "literally" and "figuratively." If something happens literally, it actually happens; if something… — Daniel Handler
Elizabeth’s hands flew to her mouth; tears filled her eyes with happiness as she realized he was fulfilling yet another of her and her mother’s… — Cecelia Ahern
How many times do we lose an occasion for soul work by leaping ahead to final solutions without pausing to savor the undertones? We are… — Thomas Moore
Thou saw'st the locked lovers when leaping from their flaming ship; heart to heart they sank beneath the exulting wave; true to each other, when… — Herman Melville
Moments before sleep are when she feels most alive, leaping across fragments of the day, bringing each moment into the bed with her like a… — Michael Ondaatje
madam," the man cried, leaping to the ground, "you're hurt!" "I'm dead, sir!" she replied. A few minutes later, they became engaged. — Virginia Woolf
Love leaped out in front of us like a murderer in an alley leaping out of nowhere, and struck us both at once. As lightning… — Mikhail Bulgakov
i thank You God for most this amazing day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything… — E E Cummings
But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a starfish leaping through the dark. — John Updike
She had imagined Jace leaping from the bed in astonishment and gasping something like "Egad!" This didn't happen-largely, she suspected, because Jace had seen much… — Cassandra Clare

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