Leaves Quotes

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.

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.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

I tend not to trust people who live in very tidy houses. I know that on the surface there is nothing wrong with a person being well-ordered and disciplined. Nothing, except that it leaves the impression of that person having lived in the confines of a stark institution which, although he or she has long since left, remains within.

When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves.

Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.

Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.

Religion leaves no room for human complexity.

There is a real opportunity right now as parents and grandparents to come up with a plan that leaves our kids with something better than we have; that is, an opportunity to own, build, and grow a nest egg of their own.

I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to create all of this and to enjoy our family life, stepping away from all the fictional traumas and the dramas. If I write about family in crisis, then I won't have to live through it, I guess.

You know, to preserve our job-friendly climate the Texas legislature didn't raise taxes this last legislative session while balancing their budget and maintaining their reserves - and might I add that our budget leaves $6 billion dollars in a rainy day fund?

In all my travels I never met with any one Scotchman but what was a man of sense: I believe everybody of that country that has any, leaves it as fast as they can.

The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible.

Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

My belief is that no movie, nothing in life, leaves people neutral. You either leave them up or you leave them down.

They pay little attention to what we say and prefer to read tea leaves.

In a way, everything concerning a movie leaves me cold.

That is the returning to God which in reality is never concluded on earth but yet leaves behind in the soul a divine home sickness, which never again ceases.

Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.

The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.

He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons.

As costs mount, in lives and dollars, it is natural to second guess, but one lesson I hope we have learned is that the U.S. cannot go it alone in a policy that leaves American troops taking all the risk and American taxpayers paying all of the costs.

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

Gather all Leaves in the hour of that Planet that governs them.

After that, Kasparov stepped back from chess which is, and I want this to be clear, not good for chess in general at all. As a whole, the current situation in the chess world leaves a lot to be desired.