A Quote by Michael R. Burch

It's not that every leaf must finally fall, it's just that we can never catch them all.

Michael R. Burch

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Catch Every Fall Finally Just Leaf Must Never Them

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Michael R. Burch
American - Poet
Born: February 19, 1958

You can learn from an ordinary bamboo leaf what ought to happen. It bends lower and lower under the weight of snow. Suddenly the snow slips to the ground without the leaf having stirred. Stay like that at the point of highest tension until the shot falls from you. So, indeed, it is: when the tension is fulfilled, the shot must fall, it must fall from the archer like snow from a bamboo leaf, before he even thinks it.

Eugen Herrigel

Did you know you get one happy day for every one you catch?... One happy day for every falling leaf you catch" -sam

Maggie Stiefvater

'Ever seen a leaf - a leaf from a tree?' 'Yes.' I saw one recently - a yellow one, a little green, wilted at the edges. Blown by the wind. When I was a little boy, I used to shut my eyes in winter and imagine a green leaf, with veins on it, and the sun shining ...' 'What's this - an allegory?' "No; why? Not an allegory - a leaf, just a leaf. A leaf is good. Everything's good.'

Fyodor Dostoevsky

One happy day for every falling leaf you catch. Sam's voice was low.

Maggie Stiefvater

One of the things that makes a dead leaf fall to the ground is the bud of the new leaf that pushes it off the limb.

Jan Karon

You can assume that the leaf you see let go of a branch and fall towards the ground has never been considered by any being but yourself. Catch it in your hand - or, even better, keep walking until one falls into your reach naturally - and it will have spent its whole time on the planet without ever touching the ground, only because of you.

Eliot Schrefer

The leaf, still green, must someday fall such grief and joy to live at all.

T.A. Barron

Because this exact leaf had to grow in that exact way, in that exact place, so that precise wind could tear it from that precise branch and make it fly into this exact face at that exact moment. And, if just one of those tiny little things had never had happened, I'd never have met ya. Which makes this leaf the most important leaf in human history

Neil Cross

I've tried to put myself in every position possible to be able to catch the football. Until you challenge yourself at a particular catch, or a particular area of the field to make a particular catch, you would never know if you can make that catch.

Jarvis Landry

Every ripple on the ocean, every leaf on every tree, every sand dune in the desert, every power we never see.

Sting

The leaf of every tree brings a message from the unseen world. Look, every falling leaf is a blessing.

Rumi

The leaf lives its appointed time, and does not struggle against the wind that carries it away. The leaf does no harm, and finally falls to nourish new leaves. So it should be with all men and women.

Robert Jordan

I'm a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.

Golda Meir

Most of us have participated in the trust exercise in which one person falls back and is caught by a peer. Even if the catch is made a hundred times in a row, the trust is broken forever if the friend lets you fall the next time as a joke. Even if he swears he is sorry and will never let you fall again, you can never fall back without a seed of doubt.

Rafe Esquith

I don't say he's a great man. Willie Loman never made a lot of money. His name was never in the paper. He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid. He's not to be allowed to fall in his grave like an old dog. Attention, attention must finally be paid to such a person.