Quotes About Maple Leaf

#1. A withered maple leaf has left its branch and is falling to the ground; its movements resemble those of a butterfly in flight. Isn't it strange? The saddest and deadest of things is yet so like the gayest and most vital of creatures?

Ivan Turgenev

#2. The artist is always beginning.

Ezra Pound

#3. My end goal in the piano is to play Scott Joplin's 'Maple Leaf Rag.'

Miranda Leek

#4. I like Toronto a lot, it's a good city. The only thing that really annoys me about Toronto is that you're turning Maple Leaf Gardens into a grocery store, which is absolutely nothing short of disgusting.

Rick Wakeman

#5. Whenever I put myself out there on the line, skating against other people, I simply want to win.

Shani Davis

#6. I moved forward in the trace of their footsteps as in a waking dream where the scent of a newly blown poppy is no longer a perfume but a blossoming: where the deep red of a maple leaf in autumn is no longer a colour but a grace; where a country is no longer a place but a lullaby.

Kim Thuy

#7. I have a maple leaf tattoo over my heart, quite literally, and my two favorite things on Earth are being in Canada and making movies.

Jay Baruchel

#8. Leaf fans loyalty is unshakeable. The fans keep coming back and it hurts, I have been there. I have lost in game six to go to the finals with the Maple Leafs, against Carolina and what a great final that would have been.

Curtis Joseph

#9. The ash her purple drops forgivingly
And sadly, breaking not the general hush;
The maple swamps glow like a sunset sea,
Each leaf a ripple with its separate flush;
All round the wood's edge creeps the skirting blaze,
Ere the rain falls, the cautious farmer burns his brush.

James Russell Lowell

#10. I asked her, dreamily, if we had met, and when she told me that we had not, I gave her a little finger wave, the type a leprechaun might offer a pixie who was floating by on a maple leaf. "Well, hi there," I whispered.

David Sedaris

#11. Do you believe that we have the ability to change destiny?

Michelle Madow

#12. All winter the acorns and red Maple leaf moldered in silence - in the same way grief is gnawing at me - slowly, imperceptibly ... consuming ...

John Geddes

#13. Probably "I love my life" would be something I would say out loud to the planet - just that positive affirmation. And also, "Life is short," "Don't take yourself so seriously," and "Lighten the f - k up." And if that offends you, you really need to lighten the f - k up.

John Feldmann

#14. A dry maple leaf has come off and is falling to the earth; its movement is exactly like a butterfly's flight. Isn't it strange? Gloom and decay - like brightness and life.

Ivan Turgenev

#15. Think what you want about me Billie. You're the only part of my life that hasn't been a lie.

Shelby Reed

#16. This fastest of all games [hockey] has become almost as much of a national svmbol as the maple leaf.

Lester B. Pearson

#17. The early Christians condemned false doctrine in a way that sounds almost unchristian today.

Vance Havner

#18. The doughnut was definitely looking at him. Hello, sailor, it seemed to be saying.

Tom Holt

#19. Flags snap in the breeze above us, banners with a lavender stalk in front of a golden maple leaf on a green background.

Sara Raasch

#20. If you ever go to any event ever, for any reason, they will give you a tote bag. Medical conference? Tote bag. Wedding? Tote bag. Syrian refugee arriving in Canada? Maple leaf tote bag. My orthodontist gave me a tote bag. And a t-shirt. Which I put in the tote bag.

Jennifer McCartney

#21. One day the 'Maple Leaf' will make me King of Ragtime Composers.

Scott Joplin

#22. The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government.

Theodore Roosevelt