Maple Quotes - Page 3

• Do you think I'm wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. No, he said. Why? Because so many girls are wonderful. I imagine hundreds of men have called their loves wonderful today, and it's only noon. You couldn't be something that hundreds of others are.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Girl, Men, Thinking

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.229, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The rinsed foam swirled into one drain that always clogged come October when the maples dropped Canadian propaganda over everything.

  Daniel Handler

  Foam, October, Propaganda

  Daniel Handler (2009). “Watch Your Mouth: A Novel”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry
  Of bugles going by.
  And my lonely spirit thrills
  To see the frosty asters like a smoke upon the hills.

  Bliss Carman

  Lonely, Autumn, Asters

  Bliss Carman (1931). “Bliss Carman's Poems”, McClelland & Stewart

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• I was cutting and threading pipe in the tunnels to get water into the shower rooms for athletics. I was repairing old metal windows, fixing cement walls where rain was coming through, and drying out the maple gym floors in hopes of removing the warping.

  Tom Baker

  Wall, Rain, Cutting

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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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• I drink maple syrup. Then I'm hyper so I just run around like crazy and work it all off.

  Rachel McAdams

  Running, Crazy, Syrup

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• I always have a good quality extra virgin olive oil. A cheap quality oil will end up cheapening your dishes. And I love sweetening my dishes with maple syrup. It has a bit of a bitter kick at the end that works wonderfully in savory dishes.

  Nadia Giosia

  Sweet Love, Oil, Quality

  "World Chefs: No-nonsense food with a pinch of punk". Interview with Dorene Internicola, www.reuters.com. August 16, 2011.

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• ...a sad sort of vulnerability was wafting from her, making the night smell like maple syrup.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Night, Smell, Syrup

  Sarah Addison Allen (2010). “The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel”, p.15, Bantam

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• A withered maple leaf has left its branch and is falling to the ground; its movements resemble those of a butterfly in flight. Isn't it strange? The saddest and deadest of things is yet so like the gayest and most vital of creatures?

  Ivan Turgenev

  Fall, Butterfly, Movement

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1961). “Fathers and sons”, Signet Classics

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• My first semester I had only nine students. Hoping they might view me as professional and well prepared, I arrived bearing name tags fashioned in the shape of maple leaves.

  David Sedaris

  Views, Names, Firsts

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• Again the blackbirds sings; the streams Wake, laughing, from their winter dreams, And tremble in the April showers The tassels of the maple flowers.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Dream, Flower, Winter

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.371

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• This fastest of all games [hockey] has become almost as much of a national svmbol as the maple leaf.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Hockey, Games, Leafs

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• In the long dusks of summer we walked the suburban streets through scents of maple and cut grass, waiting for something to happen.

  Steven Millhauser

  Summer, Cutting, Long

  Steven Millhauser (2008). “Dangerous Laughter”, p.62, Vintage

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• Writing an informative yet compact thriller is a lot like making maple sugar candy. You have to tap hundreds of trees - boil vats and vats of raw sap - evaporate the water - and keep boiling until you've distilled a tiny nugget that encapsulates the essence.

  Dan Brown

  Writing, Essence, Water

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• I thought of my mother as Queen Christina, cool and sad, eyes trained on some distant horizon. That was where she belonged, in furs and palaces of rare treasures, fireplaces large enough to roast a reindeer, ships of Swedish maple.

  Janet Fitch

  Mother, Queens, Eye

  Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press

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• Many of the artifacts of my house had become potential devices for my own destruction: the attic rafters (and an outside maple or two) a means to hang myself, the garage a place to inhale carbon monoxide, the bathtub a vessel to receive the flow from my opened arteries. The kitchen knives in their drawers had but one purpose for me.

  William Styron

  Mean, Knives, Two

  William Styron (2010). “Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness”, p.27, Open Road Media

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• It is a poor observance of our first century as a nation if we run up a flag of surrender with three dying maple leaves on it.

  Charlotte Whitton

  Running, Dying, Three

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• I'm very proud to be wearing the "C" for the Maple Leafs. It puts a smile on my face everyday

  Mats Sundin

  Everyday, Proud, Faces

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• The approach to that movie wasn't, 'Lets make this movie about Amsterdam and maple syrup.' The concept was, 'Lets go to Amsterdam. Amsterdam is fun.' So we flew to Amsterdam with our cameras and we saw what happened and then we got back and we sat down and we said, 'What's the movie here.' That's when we realized that the movie was 'The Maple Syrup Saga'.

  Casey Neistat

  Letting Go, Fun, Down And

  Source: www.tvequals.com

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• We must keep these waters for wild rice, these trees for maple syrup, our lakes for fish, and our land and aquifers for all of our relatives - whether they have fins, roots, wings, or paws.

  Winona LaDuke

  Lakes, Aquifers, Land

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• Oh! to be a child again. My only treasures, bits of shell and stone and glass. To love nothing but maple sugar. To fear nothing but a big dog. To go to sleep without dreading the morrow. To wake up with a shout. Not to have seen a dead face. Not to dread a living one. To be able to believe.

  Fanny Fern

  Dog, Children, Believe

  Fanny Fern (2015). “Ginger-Snaps”, p.110, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I sit where the leaves of the maple and the gnarled and knotted gum are circling and drifting around me.

  Alice Cary

  Gum, Drifting

  Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary (1850). “Poems of Alice and Phoebe Carey ...”, p.140

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• This hill crossed with broken pines and maples lumpy with the burial mounds of uprooted hemlocks (hurricane of '38) out of their rotting hearts generations rise trying once more to become the forest just beyond them tall enough to be called trees in their youth like aspen a bouquet of young beech is gathered they still wear last summer's leaves the lightest brown almost translucent how their stubbornness has decorated the winter woods.

  Grace Paley

  Summer, Spring, Heart

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• My love of maple syrup. I've been known to knock back a can over a couple days: A swig here, a swig there, and next thing you know it's gone. It's a habit I have to stave off. I don't want to lose all my teeth.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Couple, Teeth, Syrup

  "Gay singer Rufus Wainwright: 'I love 50 Cent, I know he’s gay'". Details Magazine Interview, www.celebitchy.com. April 15, 2010.

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• My end goal in the piano is to play Scott Joplin's 'Maple Leaf Rag.

  Miranda Leek

  Play, Piano, Goal

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