Like Leaves Quotes

44 quotes by 36 authors

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
The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come. — Dante Alighieri
Let no man grumble when his friends fall off, As they will do like leaves at the first breeze; When your affairs come round, one… — Lord Byron
Miserable mortals who like leaves at one moment flame with life eating the produce of the land and at another moment weakly perish. — Homer
There is something about poverty that smells like death. Dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a dry season and rotting around the… — Zora Neale Hurston
Four hundred year old trees, who draw aliveness from the earth like smoke from the heart of God, we come, not knowing you will hush… — Mark Nepo
A rural Venus, Selah rises from thegold foliage of the Sixhiboux River, sweepspetals of water from her skin. At once,clouds begin to sob for such… — George Elliott Clarke
Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,- Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies:… — Homer
Parting is a training streamer,Lingering like leaves in autumn... — Philip Larkin
IsnÂ’t it strange some people make You feel so tired inside, Your thoughts begin to shrivel up Like leaves all brown and dried!But when youÂ’re… — Rachel Field
Sometimes I hear the world discussed as the realm of men. This is not my experience. I have watched men fall to the ground like… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke
Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found. — Alexander Pope
Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can't see the tiny outstretched… — Miranda July
That wind. I see it's blowing now. Furtive but commanding, it has dictated every move we've ever made. My mother felt it, and so do… — Joanne Harris
The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains. — Arthur Golden
Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society. — Jasper Fforde
Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance. — Gustave Flaubert
The three girls were sitting and lying beside her, holding one another, weeping, their arms and legs and hair tangled like the roots of close… — Shannon Hale
Variations: II Green light, from the moon, Pours over the dark blue trees, Green light from the autumn moon Pours on the grass ... Green… — Conrad Aiken
...the meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I was the tree,… — Jonathan Safran Foer

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