(52 quotes found)
“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.”
Walt Whitman
“A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked…”
Anais Nin
“There is always some fig leaf being used.”
Gary Hart
“October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again.”
Hal Borland
“The one red leaf, the last of its clan, / That dances as often as dance it can, / Hanging so light, and hanging so high, / On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.”
William Shakespeare
“All our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf.”
Bible
“Turn over a new leaf”
Proverb
“Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“You heard a leaf fall, she heard a house crash.”
Gerold Frank
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