Quotes with leaves

Quotes 81 till 100 of 115.

  • Bayard Taylor The aquilegia sprinkled on the rocks A scarlet rain; the yellow violet Sat in the chariot of its leaves, the phlox Held spikes of purple flame in meadows wet, And all the streams with vernal-scented reed Were fringed, and streaky bellow of miskodeed.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Buenaventura Durruti The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history.
    Buenaventura Durruti
    Spanish insurrectionary, anarcho-syndicalist militant (1896 - 1936)
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  • Alighieri Dante The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
    Alighieri Dante
    Durante (Dante) degli Alighieri, Italian philosopher and poet (1265 - 1321)
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  • Sir Roger L'Estrange The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch.
    Sir Roger L'Estrange
    English journalist (1616 - 1702)
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  • Walter Lippmann The effort to calculate exactly what the voters want at each particular moment leaves out of account the fact that when they are troubled the thing the voters most want is to be told what to want.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Walter Lippmann The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • John Berger The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recognizes neither pity nor pitilessness.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • William Wordsworth The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Javan The pain we feel When someone leaves our life is in direct proportion to the joy they bring while a part of our life for a few moments. In my life you made me feel as if I truly meant something to someone
    Javan
     
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  • Bayard Taylor The Poet's leaves are gathered one by one, In the slow process of the doubtful years.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Emma Goldman The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • George Brandes The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.
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  • William Wordsworth The wiser mind mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Beryl Markham The world grows bigger as the light leaves it. There are no boundaries and no landmarks. The trees and the rocks and the anthills begin to disappear, one by one, whisked away under the magical cloak of evening.
    Beryl Markham
    English-born Kenyan aviator, racehorse trainer and author (1902 - 1986)
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  • Coco Chanel There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.
    Coco Chanel
    French couturier (1883 - 1971)
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  • Chief Seattle There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.
    Chief Seattle
    Suquamish Tribe chief (1786 - 1866)
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  • Mortimer Caplan There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist - the taxidermist leaves the hide.
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  • Bayard Taylor Till the sun grows cold,
    And the stars are old,
    And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold.
    Bedouin Song
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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