Leafless Quotes

#1. Some undefined sorrow was hidden in the hearts of the protagonists as they stood in silence beneath the leafless trees and when the moment of farewell had come the kiss, which had been withheld by one, was given by both.

James Joyce

#2. Autumn, in his leafless bowers, is waiting for the winter's snow.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#3. Celery leaves are an underused ingredient, most likely because supermarkets sell mostly leafless stalks.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#4. Give me a land of boughs in leaf
A land of trees that stand;
Where trees are fallen there is grief;
I love no leafless land.

A.E. Housman

#5. Buttercups and daisies,
Oh, the pretty flowers;
Coming ere the spring time,
To tell of sunny hours.
When the trees are leafless;
When the fields are bare;
Buttercups and daisies
Spring up here and there.

Mary Howitt

#6. He realized that it wouldn't be much longer before the trees picked themselves up and migrated to the warmer south, leaving their dead, leafless brothers behind.

James Riley

#7. I was like an old leafless tree until we met green buds burst and blossom

now that I have you I'll never forget what I owe you

Ikkyu

#8. The diary will really try and tell people who you are and what you were. The alternative is writing nothing, or creating a totally lifeless, as it is leafless, garden.

John Fowles

#9. It was hard to describe what she had sensed, but it had been distinct and clear, like the shape of a leafless tree against the sky, or a crow flying across a ploughed field. She hesitated to close her eyes again, for it had risen up close to her face like something appalling.

Jessica Rydill

#10. Humid the air! Leafless, yet soft as spring. The tender purple spray on copse and briers! And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, she needs not June for beauty's heightening. Lovely all the time she lies ...

Matthew Arnold

#11. I trust the red sun setting, the leafless November trees. On Monday morning I look foward fearlessly to Friday's eve. But humans are not as reliable as nature, as trees. I wonder if you'll come back; I trust only that you leave.

Ellen Wittlinger

#12. Leafless tree branches swayed in that wind, clawing at the sides of the stone dorm like fingernails.

Richelle Mead

#13. Mary is an apple.
Whoever plucks her
Nails his heart
To the leafless tree.

Ted Hughes

#14. black-cloaked monsters chased after me. I shoved helplessly through the brittle pine trees, leafless branches clawing at my flesh. Snow flooded my sneakers, soaking higher and higher on my jeans with every step I took.

Jessica Sorensen

#15. For some, it was easier to take the leap from the leafless tree and dance on nothing until dancing was done.

Neil Gaiman

#16. And I walk out of space
Into an overgrown garden of values,
And tear up seeming stability
And self-comprehension of causes.
And your, infinity, textbook
I read by myself, without people -
Leafless, savage medical book,
A problem book of gigantic radicals.

Osip Mandelstam

#17. The sharp white steeple of the Hawthorne First Baptist Church stuck up through the leafless trees like an admonishing finger.

Robert McCammon

#18. Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in the leafless root there is no less.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#19. The keenest pangs the wretched find Are rapture to the dreary void, The leafless desert of the mind, The waste of feelings unemployed.

Lord Byron

#20. It was the sweetest, most mysterious-looking place any one could imagine. The high walls which shut it in were covered with the leafless stems of climbing roses which were so thick that they were matted together.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#21. Leafless trees stand atop slag heaps like skeleton hands shoved up from the underworld.

Anthony Doerr

#22. He who cares for the sparrows and numbers the hairs of our head, cannot possibly fail us.

Hannah Whitall Smith

#23. It came to that" the first time you sentenced a man to death that you knew to be innocent.

Abby Mann

#24. I was a linear thinker, and according to Zen linear thinking is nothing but a delusion, one of the many that keep us unhappy. Reality is nonlinear, Zen says. No future, no past. All is now.

Phil Knight

#25. Definite speech means clarity of mind.

Mark Twain

#26. We all rejoice in hearing those 3 words: I love you. Beneath these 3 words are another 3: I get you. It's when we feel understood that we feel most loved.

Karen Salmansohn

#27. There is nothing more meaningful than being true to yourself and finding your own voice. Follow your heart and don't let anyone discourage you.

Jane Fulton Alt

#28. My desk faces the water, and I'm perfectly happy sitting there. I'm never lonely.

Tom Stoppard

#29. I had a moment like that with Wilt (Chamberlain). He knocked me out of bounds, I came back and faked him, came across the middle and dunked on him.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#30. My heart
Is a mirror hazy with sorrow
Cleanse the dust off this mirror
With your smile

Parinoush Saniee

#31. The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today

B.K.S. Iyengar

#32. The subjectivization of the universal in art brings the universal downward on one hand, while on the other it helps raise the individual toward the universal.

Piet Mondrian

#33. A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain.

Mark Twain

#34. It is true: God disturbs our comfortable day-to-day existence. Jesus' kingship goes hand in hand with his Passion.

Pope Benedict XVI

#35. Give a Little Bit has a wonderful message and makes people light up and I get them to sing with me. It really has a message that is very eternal and is needed even more today than it was when I wrote it when I was 19.

Roger Hodgson

#36. "I've done your dog. It's got nine eyes down the side, I made his head all square, 15 legs. What do you think of that?" "Fido looks a bit weird."

Eddie Izzard