Leaves Quotes
2444 quotes by 1767 authors
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The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and…
— Walter Bagehot
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Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of…
— Joseph Addison
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Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.
— Thomas Beecham
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We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector, which is more…
— Carol Bellamy
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Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
— Walter Benjamin
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The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to…
— Leonard Bernstein
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I'm really interested in fashion but at the same time I find it quite competitive. Second-hand stuff leaves you more open to whatever your own…
— Sophie Ellis Bextor
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When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.
— Mayim Bialik
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Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.
— William Blake
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I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need…
— Ben Affleck
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The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.
— Jacob Bronowski
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Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
— Pam Brown
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All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves.
— Robert Browning
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The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
— John Burroughs
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I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
— Leo Buscaglia
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A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the…
— George H. W. Bush
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
— Thomas Carlyle
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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
— Dante Alighieri
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