Leaves Quotes
2444 Leaves quotes by 1664 unique authors
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Everything is made out of Magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around…
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Americans need bullshit the way koala bears need eucalyptus leaves. They've become totally addicted to it. They get so much of it back home that…
— Michael Moorcock
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It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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After that, Kasparov stepped back from chess which is, and I want this to be clear, not good for chess in general at all. As…
— Anatoly Karpov
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I am one who leaves the table like a man, without putting back the chair or picking up the plate
— Sandra Cisneros
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The geologist takes up the history of the earth at the point where the archaeologist leaves it, and carries it further back into remote antiquity.
— Bal Gangadhar Tilak
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The true poet, is like a man who's happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he's allowed to look at leaves and grass, to see the…
— Jacob Grimm
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Sometimes fate or life or whatever you want to call it, leaves a door a little open and you walk through it. But sometimes it…
— Gayle Forman
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About forty percent of the people vote Democrat. About forty percent vote Republican. Of those eighty percent, most wouldn't change their votes if Adolf Hitler…
— Tom Clancy
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The shamrock is a religious symbol. St. Patrick said the leaves represented the trinity: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. That's why four…
— Stephen Colbert
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The United States have developed a new weapon that destroys people but it leaves buildings standing. It's called the stock market.
— Jay Leno
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A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He…
— William James
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Sometimes we tend to be in despair when the person we love leaves us, but the truth is, it's not our loss, but theirs, for…
— Unknown Author
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Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger.
— C.S. Lewis
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Consider the many special delights a lawn affords: soft mattress for a creeping baby; worm hatchery for a robin; croquet or badminton court; baseball diamond;…
— Katharine Sergeant Angell White
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Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems.
— Rudolf Carnap
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Heaven and Earth are meeting in a storm that, when it's over, will leave the air purer and the leaves fertile, but before that happens,…
— Paulo Coelho
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The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind. It destroys communities and makes humanity impossible. It creates bitterness in the survivors…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the white-wash'd palings, Stands the lilac-bush tall-growing with heart-shaped leaves of rich green, with many a pointed…
— Walt Whitman
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Death is only an old door Set in a garden wall; On quiet hinges it gives, at dusk When the thrushes call. Along the lintel…
— Nancy Byrd Turner
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A critic is one who leaves no turn unstoned.
— George Bernard Shaw
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If the enemy leaves a door open, you must rush in.
— Sun Tzu
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When the perfect order prevails, the world is like a home shared by all. Leaders are capable and virtuous. Everyone loves and respects their own…
— Confucius
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When sex disappears the tremendous energy of love is left behind. Each ugly thing in your mind, disappearing, leaves a great treasure behind.
— Rajneesh
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We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
— Gautama Buddha
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