Leafs Quotes - Page 11

• 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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• 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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• For me looking, touching, material, place and form are all inseparable from the resulting work. It is difficult to say where one stops and another begins. Place is found by walking, direction determined by weather and season. I take the opportunity each day offers: if it is snowing, I work in snow, at leaf-fall it will be leaves; a blown over tree becomes a source of twigs and branches.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Fall, Opportunity, Weather

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• If you work, if you wait, you will find the place where the four-leaf clovers grow.

  Ella Higginson

  Waiting, Four, Clovers

  Ella Higginson, “Four-Leaf Clover”

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• Modern art must strike out from the old. The new is not revealed to those whose eyes are fastened in worship upon the old…Have you ever seen an inch worm crawl up a leaf or twig, and then clinging to the very end, revolve in the air, feeling for something to reach? That's like me. I am trying to find something out there beyond the place on which I have a footing.

  Albert Pinkham Ryder

  Art, Eye, Air

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• Heart-aches are forgotten, tears lose their bitterness, and like a leaf of lavendar in a store of linen, so does Memory make life sweet.

  Myrtle Reed

  Sweet, Memories, Heart

  Myrtle Reed (1906). “Later Love Letters of a Musician”

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• O sweet September, thy first breezes bring The dry leaf's rustle and the squirrel's laughter, The cool fresh air whence health and vigor spring And promise of exceeding joy hereafter.

  George Arnold

  Sweet, Laughter, Spring

  George Arnold (1867). “Poems Grave and Gay”, p.45

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• I pride myself on how little space I take up. I am going to shrink and shrink until I am a dry fall leaf, complete with a translucent spine and brittle veins, blowing away in a stiff wind, up, up, up into a crisp blue sky.

  Julie Gregory

  Fall, Pride, Blue

  Julie Gregory (2003). “Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood”, Bantam

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• I do not know who lives here in my chest, or why the smile comes. I am not myself, more the bare green knob of a rose that lost every leaf and petal to the morning wind.

  Rumi

  Morning, Wind, Rose

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• The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Men, Modesty

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.281, Courier Corporation

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• The sweet calm sunshine of October, now
  Warms the low spot; upon its grassy mold
  The pur0ple oak-leaf falls; the birchen bough
  drops its bright spoil like arrow-heads of gold.

  William C. Bryant

  Sweet, Fall, Sunshine

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• Oh lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Life, Fall, Clouds

  "Ode to the West Wind" l. 53 (1819)

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• The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the God of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and in short you are for ever floored.

  Charles Dickens

  Scene, Withered, Dreary

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.106

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• If you are bitter you are like a dry leaf that you can squash and you can blow away by the wind. There is much more wisdom in forgiveness.

  Vusi Mahlasela

  Blow, Wind, Squash

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• Labor is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul, Nor beauty born out of its own despair, Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil. O chestnut tree, great-rooted blossomer, Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole? O body swayed to music, O brightening glance How can we know the dancer from the dance?

  William Butler Yeats

  Wisdom, Oil, Dancing

  "Among School Children" l. 57 (1928) See Quarles 1

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• Happiness is threatening and misery is safe - safe for the ego. Ego can exist only in misery and through misery. Ego is an island surrounded by hell; happiness is threatening to the ego, to the very existence of the ego. Happiness rises like a sun and the ego disappears, evaporates like a dewdrop on the grass leaf.

  Rajneesh

  Islands, Ego, Safe

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• Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain! Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle as a changeful dream; Fantastic as a woman's mood, And fierce as Frenzy's fever'd blood. Thou many-headed monster thing, Oh who would wish to be thy king!

  Walter Scott

  Dream, Kings, Blood

  Walter Scott (1869). “Poetical Works: Complete in One Volume with All His Introd. and Notes”, p.220

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