Like Leaves Quotes
44 quotes by 36 authors
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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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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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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
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Miserable mortals who like leaves at one moment flame with life eating the produce of the land and at another moment weakly perish.
— Homer
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Parting is a training streamer,Lingering like leaves in autumn...
— Philip Larkin
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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
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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
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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
— Alexander Pope
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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
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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
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The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.
— Arthur Golden
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Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.
— Jasper Fforde
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Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance.
— Gustave Flaubert
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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
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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
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...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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