Quotes of Foliage - somelinesforyou

“ As is the generation of leaves, so is that of humanity. The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the live timber Burgeons with leaves again in the season of spring returning. So one generation of men will grow while another dies. ”

- Homer

“ Pain is a part of being alive, and we need to learn that. Pain does not last forever, nor is it necessarily unbeatable, and we need to be taught that. ”

- Rabbi Harold S. Kushner

“ Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created. ”

- Jacob Bronowski

“ War never leaves, where it found a nation. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ Turn over a new leaf. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ In constructing concepts, we overlook the fact that no two things are the same. There is no such thing as the concept of a leaf, only billions and billions of leaves. ”

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“ Hot summer has exhausted her intentTo the last rose and roundelay seed.No leaf has changed, and yet these leaves now readLike a love-letter that's no longer meant. ”

- Richard Wilbur

“ Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit. ”

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

“ As fall the light autumnal leaves, one still the other following, till the bough strews all its honors on the earth below. ”

- Dante Alighieri

“ A chaplet of leaves crowns the victor. ”

- Virgil

“ I don't like the life here in New York. There is no greenery. It would make a stone sick. ”

- Nikita Khrushchev

“ Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse. ”

- Will Rogers

“ 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

“ Not having the information you need when you need it leaves you wanting. Not knowing where to look for that information leaves you powerless. In a society where information is king, none of us can afford that. ”

- Lois Horowitz

“ Where is the pride of Summer — the green prime — The many, many leaves all twinkling? — threeOn the mossed elm; three on the naked limeTrembling — and one upon the old oak tree!Where is the Dryad's immortality? ”

- Thomas Hood
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