Leafs Quotes
I turn over a new leaf every day. But the blots show through.
Keith Waterhouse (2012). “Keith Waterhouse: Collected Plays”, p.66, Oberon Books
Not a single leaf moves in this country if I'm not the one moving it.
Speech, quoted in "Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet", October 1981.
This fastest of all games [hockey] has become almost as much of a national svmbol as the maple leaf.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA (1719). “THE HISTORY OF THE RENOWNED DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA”, p.117
Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.97, Macmillan
No matter what we are, and what we sing, Time finds a withered leaf in every laurel
Edwin Arlington Robinson, “Three Quatrains”
October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen.
Hal Borland (2014). “This Hill, This Valley”, p.255, Open Road Media
Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.
Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.25
Arnold Bennett (2016). “How to Live on 24 Hours a Day”, p.14, Sheba Blake Publishing
How fugitive and brief is mortal life between the budding and the falling leaf.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Poems”
I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of that fragrant leaf than Johnson.
"Life of Johnson, Book I".
Isaiah. LXIV. 6,
James Prior, Edmund Burke (1826). “Memoir of the Life and Character of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With Specimens of His Poetry and Letters and an Estimate of His Genius and Talents, Compared with Those of His Great Contemporaries. Enlarged to Two Volumes”, p.422
The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said.
Philip Larkin (2012). “Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica”, Faber & Faber