Leafs Quotes - Page 4

• ...Winter, the aged chief, Mighty in power, Exiles the tender leaf, Exiles the flower.

  Robert Fuller Murray

  Flower, Winter, Chiefs

  Robert Fuller Murray, Andrew Lang (1894). “Robert F. Murray: His Poems”

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• Nay, do not grieve tho' life be full of sadness,
  Dawn will not veil her spleandor for your grief,
  Nor spring deny their bright, appointed beauty
  To lotus blossom and ashoka leaf.
  
  Nay, do not pine, tho' life be dark with trouble,
  Time will not pause or tarry on his way;
  To-day that seems so long, so strange, so bitter,
  Will soon be some forgotten yesterday.
  
  Nay, do not weep; new hopes, new dreams, new faces,
  The unspent joy of all the unborn years,
  Will prove your heart a traitor to its sorrow,
  And make your eyes unfaithful to their tears.

  Sarojini Naidu

  Life, Dream, Spring

  Sarojini Naidu (1916). “The Bird of Time: Songs of Life, Death & the Spring”

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• If the book is second-hand, I leave all its markings intact, the spoor of previous readers, fellow-travellers who have recorded their passage by means of scribbled comments, a name on the fly-leaf, a bus ticket to mark a certain page.

  Alberto Manguel

  Book, Reading, Mean

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• For mountain and stream, tree and leaf, root and blossom, every form in nature is echoed in us and originates in the soul whose being is eternity and is hidden from us but none the less gives itself to us for the most part in the power of love and creation.

  Hermann Hesse

  Roots, Giving, Tree

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• I have a maple leaf tattoo over my heart, quite literally, and my two favorite things on Earth are being in Canada and making movies.

  Jay Baruchel

  Tattoo, Heart, Two

  Interview with Jasper Anson, www.askmen.com.

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• In my beginning is my end. In succession Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended, Are removed, destroyed, restored, or in their place Is an open field, or a factory, or a by-pass. Old stone to new building, old timber to new fires, Old fires to ashes, and ashes to the earth Which is already flesh, fur and faeces, Bone of man and beast, cornstalk and leaf.

  T. S. Eliot

  Fall, Men, Fire

  Four Quartets "East Coker" pt. 1 (1940)

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• I'm feeling lucky like a four-leaf clover

  Jennifer Lopez

  Feelings, Lucky, Four

  "Song: 'I'm Into You'". 2011.

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• The urban man is an uprooted tree, he can put out leaves, flowers and grow fruit but what a nostalgia his leaf, flower, and fruit will always have for mother earth!

  Juan Ramon Jimenez

  Mother, Flower, Men

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• I want a dish to taste good, rather than to have been seethed in pig's milk and served wrapped in a rhubarb leaf with grated thistle root.

  Kingsley Amis

  Food, Roots, Pigs

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• The hopeless hope is one of the early harbingers of spring, bespeaking an innocent belief that the world might right its wrongs and reverse its curses simply because the trees are coming into leaf.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Spring, Tree, World

  Aleksandar Hemon (2013). “The Book of My Lives”, p.9, Pan Macmillan

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• What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Death, Fall, Autumn

  Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• I wish they would use English instead of Greek words. When I want to know why a leaf is green, they tell me it is coloured by "chlorophyll," which at first sounds very instructive; but if they would only say plainly that a leaf is coloured green by a thing which is called "green leaf," we should see more precisely how far we had got.

  John Ruskin

  Science, Greek, Wish

  John Ruskin (1800). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture: Also, Lectures on Architecture and Painting; The Study of Architecture; Sesame and Lilies; Unto this Last; The Queen of the Air; The Storm-cloud of the Nineteenth Century”

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• Writing should be the settlement of dew on the leaf.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Dew, Should

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.384, Penguin

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• People will never understand the patience a photographer requires to make a great photograph, all they see is the end result. I can stand in front of a leaf with a dew drop, or a rain drop, and stay there for ages just waiting for the right moment. Sure, people think I'm crazy, but who cares? I see more than they do!

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Photography, Crazy, Rain

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• A Leaf Man's got to go where the wind blows.

  Lois Ehlert

  Blow, Men, Wind

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• For Europe, for ourselves and for humanity, comrades, we must turn over a new leaf, we must work out new concepts, and try to set afoot a new man.

  Frantz Fanon

  Men, Europe, Work Out

  Frantz Fanon (1968). “The Wretched of the Earth”

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• If we are all strong, stable, we can set our sail with any wind in the world that comes along. We make up our own direction. If we are not strong, we are like a leaf in the wind and the world's winds will take us where they wish, not where we wish. So we meditate, every day, regularly, and gain transcendental being in our everyday life and then we are strong. When we are all infused with Being, we need not think which course is right, we just take the one that is automatically. Being is the wind-resister and the sail-setter.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Strong, Thinking, Wind

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• How life is strange and changeful, and the crystal is in the steel at the point of fracture, and the toad bears a jewel in its forehead, and the meaning of moments passes like the breeze that scarcely ruffles the leaf of the willow.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Jewels, Ruffles, Steel

  Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I don’t want long hair, I don’t want short hair, I don’t want hair at all, and I don’t want to be a girl or a boy. I want to be a yellow and orange leaf some little kid picks up and pastes in his scrapbook.

  Sherman Alexie

  Girl, Kids, Boys

  "Ten Little Indians: Stories". Book by Sherman Alexie, 2003.

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• A woman once described a friend of hers as being such a keen listener that even the trees leaned toward her, as if they were speaking their innermost secrets into her listening ears. Over the years I’ve envisioned that woman’s silence, a hearing full and open enough that the world told her its stories. The green leaves turned toward her, whispering tales of soft breezes and the murmurs of leaf against leaf.

  Linda Hogan

  Years, Listening Ear, Silence

  Linda Hogan (1996). “Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• Art is the flower... life the green leaf.

  Charles Rennie Mackintosh

  Life, Art, Flower

  Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Pamela Robertson (1990). “Charles Rennie Mackintosh: the architectural papers”, White Cockade Pub

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• I want to get under the surface. When I work with a leaf, rock, stick, it is not just that material in itself, it is an opening into the processes of life within and around it. When I leave it, these processes continue.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Rocks, Sticks, Want

  "The lie of the land" by Richard Mabey, www.theguardian.com. March 31, 2007.

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• I've turned over a new leaf. On TV, Kenny Wallace said I was a pessimist after Charlotte, so I got mad. Now I am so excited about coming back that I just can't stand it. I wish we were starting tomorrow and I'm going to win! That's the new me.

  Mark Martin

  Winning, Mad, Wish

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• Every leaf that grows will tell you: what you sow will bear fruit, so if you have any sense my friend, don't plant anything but Love.

  Rumi

  Journey, Fruit, Bears

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• He began to search among the infinite series of impressions which time had laid down, leaf upon leaf, fold upon fold softly, incessantly upon his brain; among scents, sounds; voices, harsh, hollow, sweet; and lights passing, and brooms tapping; and the wash and hush of the sea.

  Virginia Woolf

  Sweet, Memories, Voice

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.365, Wordsworth Editions

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