Leaves Quotes

2444 Leaves quotes by 1664 unique authors

Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils. — Cyril Connolly
When autumn shadows throw their patterns across the land, they are not the images of fragile, dying leaves, not the bared arms of lofty elms,… — Djuna Barnes
A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark. — Robert A. Heinlein
In planning any type of offense, when a player leaves a spot always replace him with another offensive player. — Hubie Brown
My little children, your hearts, are small, but prayer stretches them and makes them capable of loving God. Through prayer we receive a foretaste of… — John Vianney
I love what I think, and I'm never tempted to believe it. Thoughts are like the wind or the leaves on the trees or the… — Byron Katie
It is strange to be here. The mystery never leaves you alone. Behind your image, below your words, above your thoughts, the silence of another… — John O'Donohue
A little noiseless noise among the leaves, Born of the very sigh that silence heaves. — John Keats
He who is silent is forgotten; he who does not advance falls back; he who stops is overwhelmed; out distanced, crushed; he who ceases t… — Henri Frederic Amiel
Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity in their infancy,… — Olive Schreiner
The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment. — Chris Hedges
The incarnate Word is with us, is still speaking, is present always, yet leaves no sign but everything that is. — Wendell Berry
Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north - wind's breath, And stars to set; but all, Thou hast all… — John Milton
What a pretty thing man is when he goes in his doublet and hose and leaves off his wit! — William Shakespeare
Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything… — Friedrich Nietzsche
In the fall, you don't grieve because the leaves are falling and dying. You say, "Isn't it beautiful!" Well, we're the same way. There are… — Byron Katie
Sometimes I come across a tree which seems like Buddha or Jesus: loving, compassionate, still, unambitious, enlightened, in eternal meditation, giving pleasure to a pilgrim,… — Satish Kumar
Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living… — Joseph Wood Krutch
A man dies too young if he leaves any wine in his cellar. — Andre Simon
What is it about a beautiful sunny afternoon, with the birds singing and the wind rustling through the leaves, that makes you want to get… — Jack Handey
(After meeting her birth mother after more than 40 years) We exchange bunches of orchids, laughing at the coincidence of the flowers. A little unnerving:… — Jackie Kay
What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine — Thomas More
He types his labored column - weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn. — Robertson Davies
Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the… — Jane Austen
Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that… — George Bernard Shaw

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