Quotation Explorer - 'Leaf'

People that you meet, are pebbles in your river, but those that you hold true shall follow your current, like a leaf atop a stream. The boulder that blocks your path however, you just have to be willing to climb, or break it down with time. - Hieu
Take a deep breath and feel the joy of life. Open your eyes and see the beauty of a dancing leaf. - Debasish Mridha
If I can’t sing, then let me listen to the songs of the wilderness and let me watch the dance of a lonely leaf. - Debasish Mridha
The rain out again, hammering the puddles full of holes, pocking the black-and-silver world with shining darkness. Rain soaks each leaf and blade of grass, bloating the lawns until they seem to roll and swell. Houses recede. The wind rises. The eyes and ears of God come down for the walk". - Mary Gatskill
Advocacy of leaf protein as a human food is based on the undisputed fact that forage crops (such as lucerne) give a greater yield of protein than other types of crops. Even with conventional food crops there is more protein in the leafy parts than in the seeds or tubs that are usually harvested. - Norman Pirie
He has 'le coeur comme un artichaud'. Eddy fumbled for her high school French. 'A heart like an artichoke?' 'Oui. He has a leaf for everyone, but makes a meal for no one. - Poppy Z. Brite
If we believe we have no control, we acquiesce our real power, become subject to the decisions of others, and become like a leaf floating helplessly down a current of other people's decisions.
YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller one on its upper side,'said the dewdrop to the lake. - Rabindranath Tagore
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf. - - Rabindranath Tagore
Life is nothing but a transient dream dancing at the tip of a leaf called time. - Debasish Mridha
My head was playing an irresistible music that only me was hearing it, and I laid down as if I was a siren waiting for someone to wash away her fear of being seen. You were the river which caught me when I was falling from the sky as a leaf , and you said even if I don’t remember you, you do. - Kenza Slaoui
Each day is a dry leaf, which never comes back to life again. - Shine Syamaladevi
You can be clumsy yet clever. You can be classy yet poor. It's not tearing a leaf off a calendar which will make you a better or a worse man but the attitude that you have from dusk till dawn every day. - Indeewara Jayawardane
Through the window of my soul and the mirror of my mind, I was looking for the beauty of my life. I could not find it, but I found it in the glint of a dew drop at the edge of a dancing leaf. - Debasish Mridha
As I drift through the autumn of my life like a fallen leaf blown about by the winds of time, I sometimes ponder my destiny. - Peggy Toney Horton
Life is a dancing dew drop on the tip of a leaf. - Debasish Mridha
But that woman is an encyclopedia!Of all vices, ancient and modern, and terribly interesting to leaf through! - Jean Lorrain
please, love, leave,like leaf from tree;taking beauty,leaving seed - Andrew McMillan
When I rise uplet me rise up joyfullike a bird.When I falllet me fall without regretlike a leaf. - Wendell Berry
The story of the tree is written on every leaf. - Marty Rubin
Like a feather in the air, like a leaf in the sea, I surrender to Thee, I surrender to Thee. - RVM
I am the spirit of the river that caught you when you were falling as leaf, you don't remember me, but I do. - Kenza Slaoui
What is timea November leaf a child's vacillating mouth a rose a left-over, half-drunk glass of water. - İlhan Berk
I was stirred only like a leaf in the wind, that is all. . . - Anaïs Nin
Mind's acres are forever green: Oh, IShall keep perpetual summer here; I shallRefuse to let one startled swallow die,Or, from the copper beeches, one leaf fall. - Stanley Kunitz
Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades. - Boris Pasternak
Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up. - Henry David Thoreau
Nature's first green is gold,Her hardest hue to hold.Her early leaf's a flower;But only so an hour.Then leaf subsides to leaf.So Eden sank to grief,So dawn goes down to day.Nothing gold can stay. - Robert Frost
When the time has come, every leaf turns to face the sun! - Akilnathan Logeswaran
Being a blesséd writer is a cursed attribute, when you wish to no longer be encompassed by someone and yet you are surrounded by loose leaf papers filled with the sound of his voice. - Elizabeth Brooks
Th tree sheds a memory with every leaf. - Marty Rubin
If you don't know history, you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. - Michael Chrichton
Your words like wings gravity they defy.My heart like a leaf on the wind catchin' rides.We make too much sense to foolishly pass it by.So I'm taking a rainbow up to the 5th floor.Steppin' out to see that you're really worth more. - Group 1 Crew
We all do fade as a leaf. - Bible
If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. - Michael Crichton
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. - Albert Camus
There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky. - Dejan Stojanovic
Sometimes a strong wind blows suddenly and you leave your beloved tree without saying even goodbye, like a pale autumn leaf! This uncertainty of life makes every moment in life infinitely precious. - Mehmet Murat ildan
You, the unhappy young! Try to take a leaf out of the old happy’s book! - Mehmet Murat ildan
With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown. - Chinese proverb
With every leaf that falls the tree loses a memory. - Marty Rubin
Birth, life, and death― each took place on the hidden side of a leaf. - Toni Morrison
We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character. - Henry David Thoreau
Life is full of joy and beauty. Look around and notice it. Notice the little butterfly, a little baby with a smile, and the white rose in the garden. Notice a drop of dew on a green leaf in the morning sun. Touch the wind, smell the rain, and feel the joy. Live your life with beauty and joy. - Debasish Mridha
The chief beauty about timeis that you cannot waste it in advance.The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you,as perfect, as unspoiled,as if you had never wasted or misapplieda single moment in all your life.You can turn over a new leaf every hourif you choose. - Arnold Bennett
This was all in the making, a long time ago. You had as much control over these events as a leaf does in the time of its falling. - Colin Meloy
As the soil of a garden is richer and as the harvest of the garden bears healthier nourishment from the decay of leaf matter and banana peel and egg shell and human hair and chicken bone and fireplace ash, so the accumulation of death in teh ground of a city implants therein energies and powers. - Tim Gilmore
If a man who can’t count finds a four leaf clover, is he lucky? - Stanisław Lem
In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness... I see what people call God in all these things. - Pablo Casals
In every change, in every falling leaf there is some pain, some beauty. And that's the way new leaves grow. - Amit Ray
The journey may be fraught with challenges, yet it continues, for even the smallest leaf must embrace destiny...Persistence is the key... - Virginia Alison
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf. - Rabindranath Tagore
Why?"He stopped pacing and looked at her as if she'd just asked him to count every leaf on every tree in the Old Place. "Because... you're you. - Anne Bishop
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