Leafs Quotes - Page 15

• Leaf fans loyalty is unshakeable. The fans keep coming back and it hurts, I have been there. I have lost in game six to go to the finals with the Maple Leafs, against Carolina and what a great final that would have been.

  Curtis Joseph

  Loyalty, Hurt, Games

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• Beauty is a fairy; sometimes she hides herself in a flower-cup, or under a leaf, or creeps into the old ivy, and plays hide-and-seek with the sunbeams, or haunts some ruined spot, or laughs out of a bright young face.

  George Augustus Henry Sala

  Flower, Play, Ivy

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• Once you change the technology - from a film camera to a video camera, or from an 8-mm camera to 16 mm - you change completely the content. With 8 mm, a leaf on a tree will be made up of maybe four grains. So it's very impressionistic, almost like Seurat. If you switch to 16 mm, the technology gives you hundreds of grains on that leaf.

  Jonas Mekas

  Technology, Giving, Tree

  "Short Films From a Long Life". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. December 19, 2006.

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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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• I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars, And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren, And the tree toad is a chef-d'oeurve for the highest, And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven, And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery, And the cow crunching with depress'd head surpasses any statue, And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels!

  Walt Whitman

  Running, Depressing, Stars

  Walt Whitman, “Song Of Myself, XXXI”

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• Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. Loving all, you will perceive the mystery of God in all.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Animal, Light, Environmental

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• If there is a reason to believe in God, it would be the Havana Leaf.

  Norman Lear

  Believe, Would Be, Reason

  Interview with Norman Lear, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 7, 2012.

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• Every walk should offer some knotty problem for the children to think out-"Why does that leaf float on the water, and this pebble sink?" and so on.

  Charlotte Mason

  Children, Thinking, Water

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “The Original Home School Series”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• The strongest must seek a way, say you? But I say: let a ploughman plough, but choose an otter for swimming, and for running light over grass and leaf, or over snow- an Elf!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Running, Swimming, Light

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.209, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am a part of all you see In Nature: part of all you feel: I am the impact of the bee Upon the blossom; in the tree I am the sap that shall reveal The leaf, the bloom that flows and flutes Up from the darkness through its roots.

  Madison Cawein

  Nature, Impact, Roots

  Madison Julius Cawein, “Penetralia”

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• I am firmly in the lard camp. It must be what we call leaf lard, which is a specific kind of lard that resides around certain internal organs in the pig.

  Alton Brown

  Pigs, Kind, Certain

  "TV Chef Alton Brown Shares Tips On The Science Of Thanksgiving Dinner". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, northernpublicradio.org. November 24, 2016.

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• Merely to live without a pain Is little gladness, little gain, Ah, welcome joy tho' mixt with grief-- The thorn-set flower that crowns the leaf.

  Dan Simmons

  Pain, Flower, Grief

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• If I should see your eyes again, I know how far their look would go -- Back to a morning in the park With sapphire shadows on the snow. Or back to oak trees in the spring When you unloosed my hair and kissed The head that lay against your knees In the leaf shadow's amethyst. And still another shining place We would remember -- how the dun Wild mountain held us on its crest One diamond morning white with sun. But I will turn my eyes from you As women turn to put away The jewels they have worn at night And cannot wear in sober day.

  Sara Teasdale

  Morning, Spring, Eye

  Sara Teasdale, William Drake (1984). “Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• ...there began to come to her a first dim realization of God's humility. Rejected by the proud in His own right by what humble means He chose to succor them; through the spirit of a child, a poor gypsy or an old man, by a song perhaps, or even it might be by the fall of a leaf or the scent of a flower. For His infinite and humble patience nothing was too small to advance His purpose of salvation and eternity was not too long for its accomplishment.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Song, Children, Flower

  Elizabeth Goudge (1958). “The White Witch”

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• It was the Magic Hour, the moment in time when every leaf and blade of grass seemed to separate, when sunlight, burnished by the rain and softened by the coming night, gave the world an impossibly beautiful glow.

  Kristin Hannah

  Beautiful, Rain, Night

  Kristin Hannah (2006). “Magic Hour: A Novel”, p.26, Ballantine Books

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• Have you ever watched a leaf leave a tree? It falls upward first, and then it drifts toward the ground, just as I find myself drifting towards you.

  Beth Kephart

  I Love You, Falling In Love, Tree

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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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• One of the oldest secrets of alchemy is that every living thing, from the most complex creatures right down to the simplest leaf, carries the seeds of its creation within itself.

  Michael Scott

  Dna, Secret, Creation

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• Where the shadow of the bridge fell I could see down for a long way, but not as far as the bottom. When you leave a leaf in water a long time after awhile the tissue will be gone and the delicate fibres waving slow as the motion of sleep. They don't touch one another, no matter how knotted up they once were, no matter how close they lay once to the bones.

  William Faulkner

  Sleep, Bridges, Long

  William Faulkner (1946). “The Sound and the Fury: And As I Lay Dying”, New York : The Modern library

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• I can almost imagine a happiness without her, the ability to let her go, to feel our roots are connected even if I never see that leaf of grass again.'

  John Green

  Roots, Leaves Of Grass, Imagine

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.274, A&C Black

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• remember you must live. remember you most love. remainder you mist leaf.

  Ali Smith

  Remember You, Remembers You, Mist

  Ali Smith (2015). “Hotel World”, p.26, Penguin UK

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• I leaf through the ancient philosophers and find my newest discoveries there.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Discovery, Philosopher, Ancient

  Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (1972). “The First Circle”

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• Life is not so simple. There are many futures. The life of a single person is like a great tree: every branch, every twig, every leaf is a possible future.

  David Gemmell

  Simple, Tree, Branches

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• One felt as if there was an enormous well behind them. Filled up with ages of memory and long, slow, steady thinking; but their surface was sparkling with the present : like sun shimmering on the outer leaves of a vast tree, or on the ripples of a very deep lake. I don’t know, but I t felt as if something that grew in the ground—asleep, you might say, or just feeling itself as something between roof-tip and leaf-tip, between deep earth and sky had suddenly waked up, and was considering you with the same slow care that it had given to its own inside affairs for endless years.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Memories, Thinking, Lakes

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• I would rediscover the secret of great communications and great combustions. I would say storm. I would say river. I would say tornado. I would say leaf. I would say tree. I would be drenched by all rains, moistened by all dews. I would roll like frenetic blood on the slow current of the eye of words turned into mad horses into fresh children into clots into curfew into vestiges of temples into precious stones remote enough to discourage miners. Whoever would not understand me would not understand any better the roaring of a tiger.

  Aime Cesaire

  Horse, Children, Rain

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