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A Leaf Man's got to go where the wind blows. -- Lois Ehlert
One day the 'Maple Leaf' will make me King of Ragtime Composers. -- Scott Joplin
My end goal in the piano is to play Scott Joplin's 'Maple Leaf Rag. -- Miranda Leek
If there is a reason to believe in God, it would be the Havana Leaf. -- Norman Lear
My end goal in the piano is to play Scott Joplin's 'Maple Leaf Rag.' -- Miranda Leek
It suddenly hit me one day: after we're married I'll be called Mrs T Leaf! -- Tamsin Greig
I want to play the fake child on 'To Catch A Predator.' No, wait! I want to play the Leaf Man! -- Carey Mulligan
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O spring, I know thee! Seek for sweet surprise / In the young children's eyes. / But I have learnt the years, and know the yet / Leaf-folded violet. -- Alice Meynell
Tree limbs rise and fall like the ecstatic arms of those who have submitted to the mystical life. Leaf sounds talk together like poets making fresh metaphors. -- Rumi
Ryan Leaf is doing great now. If he progresses the way he is now, we're going to have a quarterback that's going to be reckoned with in the near future. And that's not political. -- Junior Seau
My father had osteomyelitis-his left arm was withered between his elbow and his shoulder ... . But the amputation of a Stone Age man called Leaf, a stoneworker, does not relate to my father at all... -- Jim Crace
I like Toronto a lot, it's a good city. The only thing that really annoys me about Toronto is that you're turning Maple Leaf Gardens into a grocery store, which is absolutely nothing short of disgusting. -- Rick Wakeman
And what a congress of stinks!- Roots ripe as old bait, Pulpy stems, rank, silo-rich, Leaf mold, manure, lime, piled against slippery planks, Nothing would give up life: Even the dirt kept breathing a small breath. -- Theodore Roethke
When you were a kid, if you went to the Montreal Forum or a hockey game at Maple Leaf Gardens, which I did, there was a great feeling. The new stadiums don't have it. Why don't they have it? Building codes. -- Frank Gehry
From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Leaf fans loyalty is unshakeable. The fans keep coming back and it hurts, I have been there. I have lost in game six to go to the finals with the Maple Leafs, against Carolina and what a great final that would have been. -- Curtis Joseph
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. -- Albert Camus
I turn over a new leaf every day. But the blots show through. -- Keith Waterhouse
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. -- Walt Whitman
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf. -- Rabindranath Tagore
Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime. -- Martin Luther
Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress. -- Charles Kettering
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. -- Henry David Thoreau
One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call. -- Tryon Edwards
Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice. -- Zhang Yimou
Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf. -- Albert Schweitzer
If you are bitter, you are like a dry leaf that you can just squash, and you can get blown away by the wind. There is much more wisdom in forgiveness. -- Vusi Mahlasela
When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain. -- Donna Tartt
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
There are three types of biomimicry - one is copying form and shape, another is copying a process, like photosynthesis in a leaf, and the third is mimicking at an ecosystem's level, like building a nature-inspired city. -- Janine Benyus
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
If a leaf fell from a tree, I'd stop juggling and play with the leaf. I went to my prop bag and got a little bandage and stuck the leaf back on the tree. People loved it. -- Philippe Petit
I just loved going fast. So I started out with Alka-Seltzer and soda water in a bottle and attached it to the skateboard. That didn't do much. I would try a leaf blower. I was searching for anything that would go fast. Then, the lawnmower engine. -- Kellan Lutz
There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering! -- Diane von Furstenberg
Tiles, the best furniture, fabrics, bath fixtures, bronze - just leaf through any design magazine and you immediately understand they're all 'Made in Italy.' We have the premier opera house in the world, La Scala, and behind the Nobel given to CERN is the research of many Italians. -- Lapo Elkann
The harsh truth is, most red-haired men look like blondes who've spoiled from lack of refrigeration. They look like brown-haired men who've been composted out behind the barn. Yet that same pigmentation that on a man can resemble leaf mold or junkyard rust, a woman wears like a tiara of rubies. -- Tom Robbins
If you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it's similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous branch. So the new science of complexity or showing how an architecture can be produced just as quickly, cheaply and efficiently by using computer production methods to get the slight variation, the self-similarity. -- Charles Jencks
Once something has outlived its usefulness in one area of life, its purpose for being in existence is no longer the same. The leaf that captures a stream of sunlight, and then transfers its energy to the tree, serves one purpose in the spring and summer, and another completely different one through the fall and winter. -- Guy Finley
Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference. -- Jane Fonda
If you bend a branch until it's horizontal, the sap will slow to a stopping point: a comma or colon, made of leaves grown into one another and over one another and hardened. Out of this pause comes a flower, which unfolds itself in spirals, as if the leaf form, unable to keep to its line, had begun to pivot. -- Alice Oswald
My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear. -- Anne Lamott
Turn over a new leaf. -- Edmund Burke
I'll turn over a new leaf. -- Miguel de Cervantes
I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation. -- Maya Angelou
I'm feeling lucky like a four-leaf clover -- Jennifer Lopez
Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism. -- Florence King
a single leaf falling autumn is everywhere... -- Frederick Franck
Don't be a leaf... Be a tree! -- Charles M. Schulz
We all do fade as a leaf. -- Isaiah
That is not a drug. It's a leaf. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Art is the flower... life the green leaf. -- Charles Rennie Mackintosh
A single leaf working alone provides no shade. -- Chuck Page
Some people need a fig-leaf on their mouths. -- Martin Luther
I am a forgettable leaf on a tree. -- Gregory Maguire
Words [are] more beautiful than a found fall leaf. -- William H. Gass
Knowledge is not a loose leaf notebook of facts. -- Jacob Bronowski
Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning. -- Anne Spencer
With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes satin. -- Maltbie Davenport Babcock
I'm givin' more flat lines to niggas than loose-leaf. -- Kool G Rap
O maternal earth which rocks the fallen leaf to sleep! -- Edgar Lee Masters
With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker. -- Gwendolyn Brooks
National security is the fig leaf against freedom of information. -- Ralph Nader
We are like snails, each stuck to his own leaf. -- Stanislaw Lem
Writing should be the settlement of dew on the leaf. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only with a leaf can I talk of the forest -- Visar Zhiti
The story of the tree is written on every leaf. -- Marty Rubin
The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said; -- Philip Larkin
Swinging on delicate hinges the autumn leaf almost off the stem. -- Jack Kerouac
Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree. -- Emily Bronte
At some point, some insect has had sex with a leaf. -- Karl Pilkington
please, love, leave,like leaf from tree;taking beauty,leaving seed -- Andrew McMillan
Man's life is like a drop of dew on a leaf. -- Socrates
I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar! -- Joss Whedon
When the time has come, every leaf turns to face the sun! -- Akilnathan Logeswaran
How much intelligence does it take to sneak up on a leaf? -- Larry Niven
I leaf through the ancient philosophers and find my newest discoveries there. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
We are all fairies living underneath a leaf of a lily pad. -- Tori Amos
remember you must live. remember you most love. remainder you mist leaf. -- Ali Smith
Help each other. Love everyone. Every leaf. Every ray of light. Forgive. -- Terrence Malick
You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose. -- Arnold Bennett
A leaf cannot return to the bud- bluestar to fireheart and greystripe -- Erin Hunter
My way of life Is fall'n into the sear and yellow leaf. -- William Shakespeare
November's sky is chill and drear, November's leaf is red and sear. -- Walter Scott
Not a leaf moves in this country if I'm not moving it. -- Augusto Pinochet
The gentle wind, a sweet and passionate wooer, Kisses the blushing leaf. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
One happy day for every falling leaf you catch. Sam's voice was low. -- Maggie Stiefvater
The emergence of consciousness, like the unfolding of a leaf, relies upon restraint. -- Peter Atkins
I was stirred only like a leaf in the wind, that is all. . . -- Anais Nin
As the bud a leaf, so at last the thought becomes a word. -- Richard B. Garnett
For mine is the old belief... There is a soil in every leaf. -- Maturin Murray Ballou
The world citizen is a small leaf on the giant tree of life. -- Suzy Kassem
Tis sweet to listen as the night winds creep From leaf to leaf. -- Lord Byron
I am the last leaf on the tree, and the wind is blowing. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
How fugitive and brief is mortal life between the budding and the falling leaf. -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
...Winter, the aged chief, Mighty in power, Exiles the tender leaf, Exiles the flower. -- Robert Fuller Murray
I've seen a jillion miracles. They're all around. Every green leaf is a miracle. -- Jimmy Dean
If a man who can't count finds a four leaf clover, is he lucky? -- Stanislaw Lem
Anyone can love a rose, but it takes a lot to love a leaf. -- Tom Flynn
The work of vegetation begins first in the irritability of the bark and leaf-buds. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life loiters at the book's first page,-- Ah! could we turn the leaf. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Any cat that misses a mouse pretends it was aiming for the dead leaf. -- Charlotte Gray
I simply felt alone, one leaf sitting miles away from a giant, communal pile. -- Dan Wells
If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness? -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough. -- Sappho
True delicacy, that most beautiful heart-leaf of humanity, exhibits itself most significantly in little things. -- Mary Howitt
October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. -- Hal Borland
The leaf, still green, must someday fall such grief and joy to live at all. -- T.A. Barron
Birth, life, and deathâ?? each took place on the hidden side of a leaf. -- Toni Morrison
The power of God is present at all places, even in the tiniest tree leaf. -- Martin Luther
The fire in leaf and grass so green it seems each summer the last summer. -- Denise Levertov
Among the monsters, I am well hidden; who looks for a leaf in a forest? -- Angela Carter
And he that will go to bed sober, Falls with the leaf still in October. -- Dario Fo
What had to move - a leaf of the chestnut tree, for instance - moved. -- Marcel Proust
Now is the time of the illuminated woods ... when every leaf glows like a tiny lamp. -- John Burroughs
Each particle of matter is an immensity, each leaf a world, each insect an inexplicable compendium. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
Every leaf is a spacious plain; every line a flowing brook; every period a lofty mountain. -- James Hervey
Summer passes into autumn in some unimaginable point of time, like the turning of a leaf. -- Henry David Thoreau
Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf. -- Richard Cecil

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