Big Leaf Quotes

#1. Spent most of the summer looking for shade. Driving around. Shade. Please? Driving in malls. I'll park a mile away I don't care. I'm just looking for a tree branch, anything. Long weed. Big leaf, get the front corner panel under it. Oh precious shade, I have it - you don't!

David Spade

#2. Community, Identity, Stability." Grand words. "If we could bokanovskify indefinitely the whole problem would be solved.

Aldous Huxley

#3. If one of the most interesting places to be is your inner world, you will never be bored when you are alone.

Sahara Sanders

#4. Some big insect flew in and began walking on the table. I don't know what insect it was, but it was brown, shining, and rich in structures. In the city the big universal chain of insects gets thin, but where there's a leaf or two it'll be represented.

Saul Bellow

#5. Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice.

Zhang Yimou

#6. Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning.

Joyce Carol Oates

#7. I later realized that this is my view of passion: It is rooted in genuine friendship. Chemistry may be two strangers exchanging smoldering looks - but passion has to be able to survive at least a twenty-minute conversation!

Helen Simonson

#8. If you live long enough, lots of nice things happen.

George Halas

#9. it crossed Farren's mind that although death seemed big, life was even bigger

Kate Grenville

#10. She deserves to be free of me.

Krista Ritchie

#11. YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf,
I am the smaller one on its upper side,'
said the dewdrop to the lake.

Rabindranath Tagore

#12. Why stress tomorrow when you can stress today?

Douglas Wilson

#13. Leaf! you are so big!
How can you change your
color, then just fall!
As if there were no
such thing as integrity!

Frank O'Hara

#14. That knowledge humbles me, melts my bones, closes my ears, and makes my teeth rock loosely in their gums. And it also liberates me. I am a big bird winging over high mountains, down into serene valleys. I am ripples of waves on silver seas. I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.

Maya Angelou

#15. When you don't know yourself, who you are and what you want, you just become a product of your environment - a leaf that gets blown each and every way until it just lands, in a big pile of mud, and gets stuck.

Evan Sutter

#16. A big tree seemed even more beautiful to me when I imagined thousands of tiny photosynthesis machines inside every leaf. So I went to MIT and worked on bacteria because that's where people knew the most about these switches, how to control the genetics.

Cynthia Kenyon