Leaves Quotes

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.

Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters.

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.

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

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.

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.