Leafs Quotes - Page 10

• 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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• Lyrical lecture, word architecture,
  Rap director, the best in my sector.
  Microphone cool chief, releasin the smooth speech...
  I get nasty with a pen and some loose leaf.

  Lord Finesse

  Rap, Hip Hop, Directors

  Song: Baby, You Nasty

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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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• 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 leaf, still green, must someday fall such grief and joy to live at all.

  T.A. Barron

  Life, Grief, Fall

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• Not a single leaf moves in this country if I'm not the one moving it.

  Augusto Pinochet

  Country, Moving, Ifs

  Speech, quoted in "Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet", October 1981.

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• Words [are] more beautiful than a found fall leaf.

  William H. Gass

  Beautiful, Fall, Found

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• The sickness rolled through me in great waves. After each wave it would fade away and leave me limp as a wet leaf and shivering all over and then I would feel it rising up in me again, and the glittering white torture chamber tiles under my feet and over my head and all four sides closed in and squeezed me to pieces.

  Sylvia Plath

  White, Rising Up, Feet

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.25, Hamilton Books

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• And what a congress of stinks!- Roots ripe as old bait, Pulpy stems, rank, silo-rich, Leaf mold, manure, lime, piled against slippery planks, Nothing would give up life: Even the dirt kept breathing a small breath.

  Theodore Roethke

  Life, Giving Up, Breathing

  1948 The Lost Son,'Root Cellar'.

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• There is a door. It opens. Then it is closed. But a slip of light stays, like a scrap of unreadable paper left on the floor, or the one red leaf the snow releases in March

  Jane Hirshfield

  Light, Doors, Snow

  Jane Hirshfield (1997). “The lives of the heart”, Perennial

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• The leaf that spreads in the light is the only holiness there is. I haven't found holiness in the faiths of mortals, or in their music, not in their dreams: it's out in the open field, with the green rows looking at the sky. I don't know what it is, this holiness: but it's there, and it looks at the sky.
  Probably though this is some conditioning the Company installed to ensure I'd be a good botanist. Well, I grew up into a good one. Damned good.

  Kage Baker

  Dream, Light, Sky

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• You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Writing, Growth, Pages

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.56, BookBaby

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• If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model, your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves; but Nature offers you millions, all on the same tree. No two leaves are exactly the same. The artist who paints only what is in his mind must very soon repeat himself.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Artist, Two, Imagination

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• I was a pebble. I was a leaf. I was the jagged branch of a tree. I was nothing to them and they were everything to me.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Tree, Branches, Pebbles

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.78, Atlantic Books Ltd

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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