quotes about Leafs
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remember you must live. remember you most love. remainder you mist leaf.
-- Ali SmithSource : Ali Smith (2015). “Hotel World”, p.26, Penguin UK
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I was stirred only like a leaf in the wind, that is all. . .
-- Anais Nin -
You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.
-- Arnold Bennett -
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Not a leaf moves in this country if I'm not moving it.
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Any cat that misses a mouse pretends it was aiming for the dead leaf.
-- Charlotte Gray -
A single leaf working alone provides no shade.
-- Chuck Page -
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No matter what we are, and what we sing, Time finds a withered leaf in every laurel
-- Edwin Arlington RobinsonSource : Edwin Arlington Robinson, “Three Quatrains”
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A leaf cannot return to the bud - bluestar to fireheart and greystripe
-- Erin Hunter -
a single leaf falling autumn is everywhere...
-- Frederick Franck -
I am a forgettable leaf on a tree.
-- Gregory MaguireSource : Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.173, Harper Collins
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October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen.
-- Hal Borland -
Swinging on delicate hinges the autumn leaf almost off the stem.
-- Jack Kerouac -
I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of this fragrant leaf than did Johnson.
-- James Boswell -
I turn over a new leaf every day. But the blots show through.
-- Keith WaterhouseSource : Keith Waterhouse (2012). “Keith Waterhouse: Collected Plays”, p.66, Oberon Books
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How much intelligence does it take to sneak up on a leaf?
-- Larry Niven -
Did you know you get one happy day for every one you catch?... One happy day for every falling leaf you catch" -sam
-- Maggie Stiefvater -
With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes satin.
-- Maltbie Davenport Babcock -
You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.
-- Mignon McLaughlin -
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National security is the fig leaf against freedom of information.
-- Ralph Nader -
As the bud a leaf, so at last the thought becomes a word.
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...Winter, the aged chief, Mighty in power, Exiles the tender leaf, Exiles the flower.
-- Robert Fuller MurraySource : Robert Fuller Murray, Andrew Lang (1894). “Robert F. Murray: His Poems”
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We are like snails, each stuck to his own leaf.
-- Stanislaw Lem -
You are very easily exasperated, my dear. If you're a leaf trembling on a wide, deep river, relax and ride the current. It's always worked for me, I assure you.
-- Steven Erikson -
It suddenly hit me one day: after we're married I'll be called Mrs T Leaf!
-- Tamsin GreigSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com. 1997.
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How fugitive and brief is mortal life between the budding and the falling leaf.
-- Thomas Bailey AldrichSource : Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Poems”
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One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.
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Words [are] more beautiful than a found fall leaf.
-- William H. Gass -
We all do fade as a leaf.
-- IsaiahSource : Isaiah. LXIV. 6,
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Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse. Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf.
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It's not that every leaf must finally fall, it's just that we can never catch them all.
-- Michael R. Burch