Leaves Quotes
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Nobodoy can make anybody else learn anything. You can't make them.Any more than if you are a gardener you make flowers grow. You don't make the flowers grow. You don't stick the petals on the leaves and paint it. The flower grows itself. Your job if you are any good at it, is to provide the optimal conditions for growth.
Ken Robinson -
A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded.
Lord Byron
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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
Dull November brings the blast, Then the leaves are whirling fast.
Sara Coleridge -
He who leaves the game wins it.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas -
What if the leaves were to fall a-weeping, and say, "It will be so painful for us to be pulled from our stalks, when autumn comes?" Foolish fear! Summer goes, and autumn succeeds. The glory of death is upon the leaves; and the gentlest breeze that blows takes them softly and silently from the bough, and they float slowly down, like fiery sparks, upon the moss.
Henry Ward Beecher -
Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.
George Steiner -
Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves.
Euripides
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“The sum of a man isn't the things he's done, it is the world he leaves behind.”
C Robert Cargill -
Freighted with hope, Crimsoned with joy, We scatter the leaves of our opening rose.
Amy Lowell -
That man is blest Who does his best And leaves the rest, Then - do not worry.
Charles Deems -
Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.
Jasper Fforde -
When the leaves turn brown, I'll be wearing the batting crown
Dave Parker -
A town, a landscape are when seen from afar a town and a landscape; but as one gets nearer, there are houses, trees, tiles leaves, grasses, ants, legs of ants and so on to infinity. All this is subsumed under the name of landscape.
Blaise Pascal
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He is a fool who leaves things close at hand to follow what is out of reach.
Plutarch -
Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.
George Bernard Shaw -
Everybody that's an actor leaves it for a while 'cause they ain't got a job.
Wilford Brimley -
A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.
Lao Tzu -
What is life, but the gentle effacement of a tree shedding its leaves?
Christian Harrison -
I made the fearful decision to head to Sydney, Australia, to study the Bible. My calling, my wife, Laura, my church, my passion - all were behind the scariest door of all time. Since that day, this remains exactly true: Fear never leaves. But the way we handle it can always change.
Carl Lentz
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Went looking for faith on the forest floor, and it showed up everywhere. In the sun, and the water, and the falling leaves, the falling leaves of time.
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield -
A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.
George Bernard Shaw -
In the end, the sign of Aretha Franklin's artistry is that she always leaves her mark - first, on the music, then on us.
Jon Landau -
For one change always leaves a dovetail into which another will fit.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli