“ Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime. ”
- Martin Luther- Copy
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“ I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself. ”
- Edward Steichen- Copy
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“ October's foliage yellows with his cold: In rattling showers dark November's rain, From every stormy cloud, descends amain, Till keen December's snows close up the year again. ”
- John Ruskin- Copy
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“ Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse. ”
- Will Rogers- Copy
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“ Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory. ”
- Thomas Beecham- Copy
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“ Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph — green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree. ”
- Cyril Connolly- Copy
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“ Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose. From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows and grows, Petal by petal, leaf by leaf. ”
- Susan Coolidge- Copy
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“ A leaf that is destined to grow large is full of grooves and wrinkles at the start. Now if one has no patience and wants it smooth offhand like a willow leaf, there is trouble ahead. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ The place is all awave with trees, Limes, myrtles, purple-beaded, Acacias having drunk the lees Of the night-dew, fain headed, And wan, grey olive-woods, which seem The fittest foliage for a dream. ”
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning- Copy
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“ I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. ”
- Leo Buscaglia- Copy
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“ I will throw all my best efforts into it, my thoughts and political observations, but ultimately I want to create a narrative that keeps you turning the pages and leaves you with a sense that this thing has a reason for being there. ”
- Frank Miller- Copy
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“ What a place to be is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers, that have bequeathed their labours... were reposing here, as in some dormitory, or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding-sheets. ”
- Charles Lamb- Copy
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“ DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set. A leaf was riven from a tree, "I mean to fall to earth," said he. The west wind, rising, made him veer. "Eastward," said he, "I now shall steer… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ Not having the information you need when you need it leaves you wanting. Not knowing where to look for that information leaves you powerless. In a society where information is king, none of us can afford that. ”
- Lois Horowitz- Copy
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“ The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and antiquaries chiefly, but living poetry like the leaves of a tree, which precede flowers and fruit — not a fossil earth, but a living earth; compared with whose great central life all animal and vegetable life is merely parasitic… ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ October gave a party; The leaves by hundreds came - The Chestnuts, Oaks, and Maples, And leaves of every name. The Sunshine spread a carpet, And everything was grand, Miss Weather led the dancing, Professor Wind the band. ”
- George Cooper- Copy
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“ Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected. ”
- Robert Orben- Copy
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“ The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on. ”
- Walter J. Lippmann- Copy
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“ Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. ”
- Franz Kafka- Copy
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“ When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves. ”
- Anthony J. D’Angelo- Copy
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“ Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place. ”
- Field Marshall John French- Copy
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“ We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 43
“ Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves. ”
- Marcelene Cox- Copy
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