Top 1200 Autumn Leaves Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

The Woman had once been supreme; in France she still seemed potent, not merely as a sentiment but as a force; why was she unknownin America? for evidently America was ashamed of her, and she was ashamed of herself, otherwise they would not have strewn fig-leaves so profusely all over her. When she was a true force, she was ignorant of fig-leaves, but the monthly-magazine-made American female had not a feature that would have been recognized by Adam. The trait was notorious, and often humorous, but anyone brought up among Puritans knew that sex was sin. In any previous age, sex was strength.

I can’t exactly describe how I feel but it’s not quite right. And it leaves me cold.

Stealing is a lazy man's way. Something for nothing, leaves you hell to pay.

The death of honest and courageous a reporter leaves America a little more vulnerable.

I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.

The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.

The artist, a traveller on this earth, leaves behind imperishable traces of his being.

No man leaves where he is and seeks a distant place unless he is in some respect a failure.

A little noiseless noise among the leaves, Born of the very sigh that silence heaves.

Boughs are daily rifled By the gusty thieves, And the book of Nature Getteth short of leaves.

It was the way the autumn day looked into the high windows as it waned; the way the red light, breaking at the close from under a low sombre sky, reached out in a long shaft and played over old wainscots, old tapestry, old gold, old colour.

For me a photograph is most successful when it doesn't answer all the questions and it leaves something to be desired.

Paying debt service to banks leaves less income to buy goods and services.

It’s always hard to lose somebody. It leaves a hole in you heart that never grows back.

Today's scientific question is: What in the world is electricity? And where does it go after it leaves the toaster?

Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves little trace in history.

The average Christian leaves planet earth never having led anyone to Christ.

The only [working] ritual is making tea. I use the loose leaves and drink it by the gallon.

Only a life of goodness and honesty leaves us feeling spiritually healthy and human.

Freighted with hope, Crimsoned with joy, We scatter the leaves of our opening rose.

A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.

A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.

Leaves turned to soil beneath my feet. Thus it is, trees eat themselves.

Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.

The absence of plot leaves the reader room to think about other things.

Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.

Life’s greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose.

IMMORTAL is an ample word When what we need is by, But when it leaves us for a time, 'Tis a necessity.

Here and there on the branch of an oak a congress of leaves still clung, rigid as flakes of bronze.

The problem with popularity is that if it gets too popular everybody leaves and goes somewhere else.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

No man goes before his time - unless the boss leaves early.

Low stir of leaves and dip of oars And lapsing waves on quiet shores.

One of the things I like so much about 'Goodnight Moon' is the way it leaves room for ambiguity.

The hush comes with the deepening of Autumn; but it comes gradually. Our ears are attuned to it, day by quieter day. But even now, if one awakens in the deep darkness of the small hours, one can hear it, a foretaste of Winter silence. It’s a little painful now, and a little lonely because it is so strange.

Summer, and he watches his children's heart break. Autumn again and Boo's children needed him. Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough.

O would, beloved, that you lay Under the dock-leaves in the ground, While lights were paling one by one.

Autumn is much redder in North America and east Asia than it is in northern Europe, and this can't be explained by temperature differences alone. These areas also have a greater proportion of ancient tree lineages surviving: trees have gone extinct at a higher rate in Europe compared with those other areas.

It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.

Yon rosebuds in the morning-dew, how pure amang the leaves sae green!

Walkin' through the leaves fallin' from the trees, Feelin' like a stranger nobody sees.

Relationship is thus always slavery of a kind, which leaves a residue of guilt.

When sparrows build and the leaves break forth, My old sorrow wakes and cries.

For men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth.

Around me the trees stir in their leaves and call out, Stay awhile.

The Internet is like a town that leaves its streets unmarked on the principle that people who don't already know don't belong

I have this theory that anything that happens to you that leaves you alive and intact can be used somewhere in your writing.

Every noble life leaves the fibre of it interwoven forever in the work of the world.

What we have to discover for ourselves leaves behind in our mind a pathway that can be used on another occasion.

Sometimes momentous government action leaves everyone uncertain about the next move.

Love is the kiss in the quiet nest while the leaves are trembling, mirrored in the water.

But the rose leaves herself upon the brier, For winds to kiss and grateful bees to feed.

Don't ask me for answers, I've only got one. That a man leaves the darkness, when he follows the Son.

Faction seldom leaves a man honest, however it might find him.

The leaves that are green turn to brown. And they wither with the wind. And they crumble in your hand.

Put a love note in his shaving kit before he leaves on a business trip.

There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple - leaves with an early moon.

A strong emotion, especially if experienced for the first time, leaves a vivid memory of the scene where it occurred.