Leafs Quotes - Page 17

• Every leaf knows that time is very short. All life must be lived before the autumn comes!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Autumn, Knows

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• There is an eternal love between the water drop and the leaf. When you look at them, you can see that they both shine out of happiness.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Love, Happiness, Water

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• I have outlasted all desire, My dreams and I have grown apart; My grief alone is left entire, The gleamings of an empty heart. The storms of ruthless dispensation Have struck my flowery garland numb, I live in lonely desolation And wonder when my end will come. Thus on a naked tree-limb, blasted By tardy winter's whistling chill, A single leaf which has outlasted Its season will be trembling still.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Dream, Lonely, Grief

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• I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a bumblebee. I am no more lonely than the Mill Brook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south wind, or an April shower, or a January thaw, or the first spider in a new house.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lonely, Horse, Stars

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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• If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn they will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem.

  Leonard Cohen

  Tears, Green, Life Is

  Song: Sisters Of Mercy, 1967

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• Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets himself all tangled up in but which look pretty when you see them under a leaf in the morning dew, and in the elegant way that they connect to one another, each to each.

  Neil Gaiman

  Morning, Men, Tangled

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Anansi Boys”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• You could be the leaf that never falls from the tree you could be the sun that never leaves the sky this might be the happy ending without the ending this might be a reason to try

  David Levithan

  Fall, Sky, Tree

  David Levithan (2014). “How They Met and Other Stories”, p.122, Egmont UK

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• This is a coca leaf. This is not cocaine. This represents the culture of indigenous people of the Andean region.

  Evo Morales

  People, Culture, Cocaine

  "Bolivian President Chews Coca During Speech At UN" by Ryan Grim, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2009.

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• The light struck upon the trees in the garden, making one leaf transparent and then another. One bird chirped high up; there was a pause; another chirped lower down. The sun sharpended the walls of the house, and rested like the tip of a fan upon a white blind and made a fingerprint of a shadow under the leaf by the bedroom window. The blind stirred slightly, but all within was dim and unsubstantial. The birds sang their blank melody outside.

  Virginia Woolf

  Wall, Garden, Light

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• When you were a kid, if you went to the Montreal Forum or a hockey game at Maple Leaf Gardens, which I did, there was a great feeling. The new stadiums don't have it. Why don't they have it? Building codes.

  Frank Gehry

  Kids, Hockey, Garden

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

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• Animals come from nature. They were not designed. All my inspiration comes from nature, whether it's an animal or the layout of bark or of a leaf. Sometimes my patterns are very bold, and you can barely see where they come from, but all the textures and all the prints come out of nature.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Inspiration, Animal, Texture

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• Did you get so caught up in the preoccupancy of a relationship that you lost who you were or were busy in life or career that you, like Adam and Eve, got lost in the garden putting fig leaf after fig leaf title, relationship, this accolade, this saying over you that you forgot who you were and what's life's about? So getting back to the core of that and building life by design, that is authentic.

  Paula White

  Garden, Careers, Design

  Source: culteducation.com

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• Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone.

  Shannon Hale

  Wind, Floating, Stones

  Shannon Hale (2010). “Book of a Thousand Days”, p.98, A&C Black

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• How much intelligence does it take to sneak up on a leaf?

  Larry Niven

  Intelligence, Doe, Sneak

  Larry Niven (1984). “Ringworld Engineers”, Del Rey

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• Lay down these words Before your mind like rocks. placed solid, by hands In choice of place, set Before the body of the mind in space and time: Solidity of bark, leaf, or wall riprap of things: Cobble of milky way. straying planets, These poems, people, lost ponies with Dragging saddles -- and rocky sure-foot trails. The worlds like an endless four-dimensional Game of Go. ants and pebbles In the thin loam, each rock a word a creek-washed stone Granite: ingrained with torment of fire and weight Crystal and sediment linked hot all change, in thoughts, As well as things.

  Gary Snyder

  Wall, Fire, Space

  Gary Snyder (1992). “No nature: new and selected poems”, Pantheon

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• time is a tree (this life one leaf) but love is the sky and i am for you just so long and long enough

  e. e. cummings

  Love Is, Sky, Long

  e. e. cummings (2014). “100 Selected Poems”, p.53, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear.

  Anne Lamott

  Land, Doubt, Lily Pads

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.7, Anchor

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• My father moved through theys of we, singing each new leaf out of each tree, (and every child was sure that spring danced when she heard my father sing).

  Mitch Albom

  Children, Spring, Father

  Mitch Albom (2012). “Dienstags bei Morrie: Die Lehre eines Lebens”, p.126, Goldmann Verlag

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• They will come back, come back again, As long as the red earth rolls. He never wasted a leaf or a tree. Do you think he would squander souls?

  Rudyard Kipling

  Thinking, Long, Tree

  Rudyard Kipling (1994). “The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling”, p.512, Wordsworth Editions

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• Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning.

  Anne Spencer

  Guilt, Innocence, Figs

  Anne Spencer, “At The Carnival”

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• how seasonably
  leaf and blossom uncurl
  and living things arrange their death,
  while someone from afar off
  blows birthday candles for the world.

  Irving Layton

  Blow, World, Afar

  Irving Layton (1977). “The Selected Poems of Irving Layton”, p.12, New Directions Publishing

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• Knowledge is not a loose-leaf notebook of facts. Above all, it is a responsibility for the integrity of what we are, primarily of what we are as ethical creatures.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Notebook, Integrity, Responsibility

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• National security is the fig leaf against freedom of information.

  Ralph Nader

  Information, Figs, National Security

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• If you meet a cross-eyed person
  you must plunge into the grass,
  alongside the chilly ants,
  fish through the green fingernails
  and come up with the four-leaf clover.

  Anne Sexton

  Magic, Four, Green

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• I'm a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.

  Golda Meir

  Diaries, Schedules, Half

  Interview with Oriana Fallaci, Ms. Magazine, April 1973.

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