L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Leaves are light, and useless, and idle, and wavering, and changeable; they even dance; and yet God in his wisdom has made them a part of oaks. And in so doing he has given us a lesson, not to deny the stout-heartedness within because we see the lightsomeness without.”
“Leaves are the Greek, flowers the Italian, phase of the spirit of beauty that reveals itself through the flora of the globe.”
Source: The White Hills: Their Legends, Landscape, and Poetry
“Leaves are usually looked upon as the children of the tree. Yes, they are children of the tree, born from the tree, but they are also mothers of the tree. The leaves combine raw sap, water, and minerals, with sunshine and gas, and convert it into a variegated sap that can nourish the tree. In this way, the leaves become the mother of the tree. We are all children of society, but we are also mothers. We have to nourish society. If we are uprooted from society, we can not trasform it into a more liveable place for us and our children.”
Source: Being Peace: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition
“Leaves are verbs that conjugate the seasons.”
Source: The solace of open spaces
“Leaves covered pavement like soggy cereal.”
Source: The Body Farm: Scarpetta 5
“Leaves crumble under my feet as I walk, the scent of fallen apples and damp soil in air, the shadowlands felt in the mist hanging over the fields, ancient whispers awaken the night.”
“Leaves doesn't wait for autumn to shed, they shed when they are ready, bad experiences doesn't wait, they leave when you are ready.”
Source: Just the Way I Feel
“Leaves fall and nourish us all as soil becomes rich with the rootedness of all. Every cycle awaits us with a kiss. Luscious and luxurious is each moment. "Receive me", says the spirit of the breath.”
Source: Sutras of the Heart: Spiritual Poetry to Nourish the Soul
“Leaves fall, rivers flow, and I am just here, learning to shine in my own rhythm.”
“leaves glow under
a haze of sunlight,
and hang
still on a windless
day”
Source: Cosmos in a Tree
“Leaves glowing in the sun, zealous hum of bumblebees, From afar, from somewhere beyond the river, echoes of lingering voices And the unhurried sounds of a hammer gave joy not only to me. Before the five senses were opened, and earlier than any beginning They waited, ready, for all those who would call themselves mortals, So that they might praise, as I do, life, that is, happiness.”
“Leaves go through so much. I love to pause and contemplate the effective lessons that the Weaver teaches through His creations in nature. Everything the Weaver creates has a singular blueprint that can never be replicated—a grain of sand, a snowflake, a human thumbprint and a leaf. You are never repeated and never will be because the Weaver sees you as precious and infinite. Everything in nature sings of the Weaver’s love for humanity, comforts with what lies in the unknown and tells you all you need to know about your purpose here and where you go after this short time on Earth.”
Source: The Last Leaf Of Autumn: Barefoot and falling, infinity is a number that has none to end
“Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north - wind's breath, And stars to set; but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!”
“Leaves hung in the stillness like hands of the newly dead.”
Source: The Devil In The White City
“Leaves I twist between my fingers,
closing my eyes as thoughts drift.
Into the momentous winds of time,
the red-orange will soon afloat.
For Autumn hues are unravelling
through the waning summer days.
‘Tis the season of yearning passion
and lyric to my heart and mind.
[Ever Changing Rhythms of Life]”
Source: Bare Spirit: The Selected Poems of Susan Marshall
“Leaves in the light of red flames; the wind laughs out of golden clouds.”
“Leaves leave this world in beautiful fall colors and songs.”
“Leaves lift trees.”
Source: The Land of Walking Through Cake
“Leaves like rusty tin
for the desolate mind that has seen the end-
the barest glimmerings.
Leaves aswirl with gulls
made wild by winter.”
“Leaves of Ash (Divine Violence, Sonnet)
You know why the West makes such
a song and dance about nonviolence,
because when your entire empire
is built on systemic extermination
of living cultures and communities,
it really helps if you simultaneously propagate
a favorable ideal of nonresistance to evil,
this way you can criminalize the very thought
of revolution, not only legally, but also morally.
Nonviolence has never been about human rights,
nonviolence is western propaganda,
commodified to maintain moral superiority,
if the tortured communities ever dare to resist.
Revolution is a fundamental pillar of justice,
don't succumb to hypocritical hogwash -
colonizers should be seen, and not heard,
their philosophy, their theology, all come last.
I'm not talking about exceptional ideas,
good ideas should be studied as individual ideas,
not as western ideas, and western philosophies
must never be prioritized as default literature.”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop
“Leaves sing the song of seasons, the song of change.”
“leaves still cling to the trees, but
the sun is telling them to drop dead.”
Source: Ghost Sentence
“Leaves turned to soil beneath my feet. Thus it is, trees eat themselves.”
Source: Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel
“Leaves will fall, cold will creep in
A circle of life that ends where it begins
It may take a thousand years and a thousand poems penned
But my hair will someday gray and my back will bend—
Then my shadow will join my body in the earth once again.
I know not the way, or even the when
Or who chooses that day we’re called away to ascend
But you bathed me in your bravery and forgave me my sins
You made a home in your heart for mine to live in—
And in return, my friend, this poem is my oath that a river of love will run through it until the very end.”
Source: State of Nature
“Leavin' is hard. Nothin' else in Heaven or on Earth would've made me leave Mary and my boys. I got a little girl now, too. She's another Harriet in the family. It's a special name. But nobody wears it better than you. You're a charm from above. Thank you for comin' back for us.”
Source: Harriet's Escape: Harriet Tubman Reimagined
“Leaving [from EU] will allow us to return real democratic control to important areas of national life; from international trade, the right to work and live in Britain to business regulation.”
“Leaving a bad trace behind on the path of life is better than not leaving any trace at all, because even that bad trace will cause people to find the good trace later on!”
“Leaving a great organization and a lucrative contract is not easy, but it allows me to take a deep breath and work on things that can make me a better driver and a better person.”
“Leaving a place, a person or a country silently and without any notice is a heroic and a noble way of teaching the importance of your presence to those who ignore your existence!”
“Leaving a role is a terrible sadness. The last day of the shooting is surreal. Your soul, your body and your mind are not ready at all to see the end of this experience. In the following months after a film shoot, one feels a deep sense of void.”
“Leaving a room or space for disappointment. Made us love the dead and hate the living. People have turn that room or space into a store room. Where they store their anger, revenge, hate, gossip, betrayal, vengeance, fear, heartbreak, hurt, pain, unforgiveness, toxicity , bad and evil ways.
The most Inhuman thing we do as humans is we are not there for one another. We don't look out for each other. We don't take care of each other. We only care and love people when they have passed on. We only show love and appreciation when people have passed on.
What is it that is so hard to love a and appreciate a human being . While they are still alive?”
“Leaving America is like losing twenty pounds and finding a new girlfriend.”
“Leaving America means renouncing your citizenship, moving out of the country and leaving family and friends behind. You can retain your citizenship if you like, but you'll still be away from loved ones and still be paying taxes. You lose all the good stuff about America and have to keep all the bad stuff.”
“Leaving American disaster victims to languish is morally reprehensible and un-American.”
“Leaving - and healing from - an abusive relationship is extremely stressful. Your body may show the signs of the stress. While dealing with your emotions may make sense to you, you may neglect your physical health, not realizing how much your physical health affects your emotional and spiritual health.”
Source: A Journey to Healing After Emotional Abuse
“Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography may come down to this: it is the capture and projection of the delights of seeing; it is the defining of observation full and felt.”
“Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.”
“Leaving behind books is even more beautiful — there are far too many children.”
“Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise. Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear, I rise.”
Source: And Still I Rise: A Book of Poems
“Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitation of the books, the enveloping serenity of order, time magically dessicated and preserved.”
Source: Dreamtigers
“Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one's mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall.”
“Leaving behind the self you once were is the shredding of the old for you have outgrown who you once were in your skin. Out of all this, is born the raw, real, and unfinished self who is on the journey of becoming. When the seasons lose their old selves just as winter turns to spring with the moments tenderly unfolding just as dawn heralds the end of the night.”
“Leaving Calgary the first time around 1973 was a wrenching experience, filled with the drama of being ten, the youngest in a family of crazy people. I have told this story to nearly everyone I have ever met in my life, and as I get older I recognize how this one event changed the direction of my life.”
“Leaving can sometimes be the best way to never go away.”
Source: 36 Views of Mount Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan
“Leaving England was a painful decision, and we still have some regrets about it. However, at that time, the research environment for theoretical chemistry was clearly better in the U.S.”
“Leaving Europe in my mind wasn't the best thing; it's not the best way of having that political voice. But that's the only voice people in Britain could have. People turned out in their droves to vote, more than for prime minister. So it was huge and very divisive.”
“Leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out by the roots. But you can't do that until your life has grown roots.”
Source: Paper Towns
“Leaving feels too good, once you leave.”
Source: Paper Towns
“Leaving GH was not my choice. I wanted to stay and work out a deal, and that was not an option to me.”
“Leaving golf aside for the moment, I'd choose Roger Federer as a sporting role model, Muhammad Ali for a sporting and non-sporting role model and Nelson Mandela as a true and lasting inspiration.”