Leafs Quotes - Page 14

• Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

  Florence King

  Women, Egalitarianism, America

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.97, Macmillan

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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 blossom rising delicate, with the perfume strong I love, With every leaf a miracle - and from this bush in the dooryard, With delicate-color'd blossoms and heart-shaped leaves of rich green, A sprig with its flower I break.

  Walt Whitman

  Strong, Flower, Heart

  Walt Whitman (2013). “The Poems of Walt Whitman: Patriotic Poems”, p.22, eBookIt.com

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• Only an idiot would rely on the energy of a bean or a leaf to stay awake throughout the day.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Coffee, Energy, Idiot

  Tahereh Mafi (2012). “Destroy Me”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• An age where you feel like you could love anyone, where you put everything on the line for the smallest of things. Eighteen. Adults say that it's an age where we laugh if a leaf tumbles by. But back then, we were more serious than any adult, more intense, and had our strength tested. 1997. That was how our eighteen was beginning.

  Ryu Si-won

  Drama, Laughing, Age

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• As a water bead on a lotus leaf, as water on a red lily, does not adhere, so the sage does not adhere to the seen, the heard, or the sensed.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Water, Doe

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• When one, abandoning greed, feels no greed for what would merit greed, greed gets shed from him - like a drop of water from a lotus leaf.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Water, Greed

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• You are as the yellow leaf. The messengers of death are at hand. You are to travel far away. What will you take with you? You are the lamp To lighten the way. Then hurry, hurry. When your light shines.

  Gautama Buddha

  Light, Hands, Yellow

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• I'm givin' more flat lines to niggas than loose-leaf.

  Kool G Rap

  Rap, Hip Hop, Lines

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• A lone maple leaf resting on sand Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon, and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone? And the sun has set and the day gone before you knew it, and with that a cold wind blows across the landscape? That's retirement.

  Stephen Leacock

  Retirement, Autumn, Blow

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• He wore a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up to the good place, and a heart-shaped leaf lay trapped in the hollow if his throat as though it were planned, though of course it was so perfect it couldn't have been planned.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Heart, White, Dating

  Elizabeth Berg (2012). “Range of Motion: A Novel”, p.7, Ballantine Books

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• If there's no hatred in a mind Assault and battery of the wind Can never tear the linnet from the leaf

  William Butler Yeats

  Wind, Hatred, Mind

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.93

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• And as for other men, who worked in tank-rooms full of steam, and in some of which there were open vats near the level of the floor, their peculiar trouble was that they fell into the vats; and when they were fished out, there was never enough of them left to be worth exhibiting,-sometimes they would be overlooked for days, till all but the bones of them had gone out into the world as Durham's Pure Leaf Lard! This contributed to the passing of the Pure Food Act of 1906.

  Upton Sinclair

  Science, Men, Law

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• I want to play the fake child on 'To Catch A Predator.' No, wait! I want to play the Leaf Man!

  Carey Mulligan

  Children, Men, Play

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• I used to walk like a giant on the land. Now I feel like a leaf floating in a stream

  Neil Young

  Land, Giants, Floating

  "Song: 'Walk Like A Giant'". 2012.

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• I used to not be really honest with girls and then I dropped a song called 'Starry Room' and then I started turning over a new leaf.

  Jaden Smith

  Girl, Song, Rooms

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Goddess is not separate from the world – She IS the world, and all things in it: moon, sun, earth, star, stone, seed, flowing river, wind, wave, leaf and branch, bud and blossom, fang and claw, woman and man.

  Starhawk

  Stars, Men, Moon

  Starhawk (2011). “The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.64, Harper Collins

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• I was reading The Mirror the other day and came across a letter from a reader who wrote, 'I was riding my bike to work when this red Ferrari pulled up next to me. Out of the window, Jeremy Clarkson shouted 'Get a car', and drove off.' What I actually said was, 'Get a car you hatchet faced, leaf-eating tw*t

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Reading, Mirrors, Car

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• Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf

  Annie Dillard

  Tunnels, Faces, Mystery

  Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.105, Canongate Books

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• The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said.

  Philip Larkin

  Tree, Said, Thresh

  Philip Larkin (2012). “Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica”, Faber & Faber

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• Lord, I do fear Thou'st made the world too beautiful this year My soul is all but out of me-let fall No burning leaf; prithee, let no bird call.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Beautiful, Fear, Fall

  1917 God's World.

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• The harsh truth is, most red-haired men look like blondes who've spoiled from lack of refrigeration. They look like brown-haired men who've been composted out behind the barn. Yet that same pigmentation that on a man can resemble leaf mold or junkyard rust, a woman wears like a tiara of rubies.

  Tom Robbins

  Men, Mold, Barns

  Tom Robbins (2006). “Wild Ducks Flying Backward”, p.75, Bantam

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• Did you ever, in that wonderland wilderness of adolesence [sic] ever, quite unexpectedly, see something, a dusk sky, a wild bird, a landscape, so exquisite terror touched you at the bone? And you are afraid, terribly afraid the smallest movement, a leaf, say, turning in the wind, will shatter all? That is, I think, the way love is, or should be: one lives in beautiful terror.

  Truman Capote

  Beautiful, Love Is, Thinking

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• My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief, Are mine alone!

  Lord Byron

  Sad, Grief, Flower

  'On This Day I Complete my Thirty-Sixth Year' (1824).

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• I am the last leaf on the tree, and the wind is blowing.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Wind, Lds, Tree

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• The leaf fall of his words, the stained glass hues of his moods, the rust in his voice, the smoke in his mouth, his breath on my vision like human breath blinding a mirror.

  Anais Nin

  Fall, Glasses, Mirrors

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