Leaves Quotes

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

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.

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.

I am resigning because my secret leaves the governor's office vulnerable.

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.

Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.

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.

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

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.

What I was trying to convey there was the kind of waste land that was left after the war. It was a bit like one always thinks of war, you know, stark scenery and no birds, no trees, no leaves, nothing living. And just emptiness.

Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.

Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October.

Well as giraffes say, you don't get no leaves unless you stick your neck out.

With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.

Pleasures flit by - they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others.

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey.

Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.

Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.