Leaves Quotes

Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within.

Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.

An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.

I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates, leaves a burning scar on the people's conscience.

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.

Time flies over us, but leaves it shadow behind.

As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky. So up to the house-top the coursers they flew, with the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too.

No man goes before his time - unless the boss leaves early.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.

Americans different in some maybe thoughts or emphasis still have the same ideas. They want a government that lets them be free, that leaves them alone, that doesn't interrupt and interfere with every aspect of their life, that lets them go to work and keep more of what they've worked hard to have.

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems.

The soldiers did go away and their towns were torn down; and in the Moon of Falling Leaves (November), they made a treaty with Red Cloud that said our country would be ours as long as grass should grow and water flow.

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves.

I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.

I love this country, but the union jack leaves me cold.

It's usually when the cameras leave that the support leaves as well.

I think that souls agree to come in and do what they're going to do and then leave when they're going to leave. So there's nothing tragic when a soul leaves. I think it was already preordained.

If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.

The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime.

He can fight terrorists overseas, but he leaves our borders so they can come in here and do their thing.