Withered Leaf Quotes

#1. On me, on me Time and change can heap no more! The painful past with blighting grief Hath left my heart a withered leaf. Time and change can do no more.

Richard Henry Horne

#2. Though you wear your fingers to the bone with service, weep your eyes out with repentance, make your knees hard with kneeling, and dry your throat with shouting, if your heart does not beat with love, your religion falls to the ground like a withered leaf in autumn.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#3. No matter what we are, and what we sing, Time finds a withered leaf in every laurel

Edwin Arlington Robinson

#4. Seated with Stuart and Brent Tarleton in the cool shade of the porch of Tara, her father's plantation,

Margaret Mitchell

#5. What is one man's hate speech is another man's poetry.

Flemming Rose

#6. Beyond age, leaf withered, man goes three footed no stronger than a child is, a dream that falters in daylight.

Aeschylus

#7. She had tried running away from her problems but now knew she would have to face them.

Paul Levine

#8. I'll not hurt thee, says Uncle Toby, rising with the fly in his hand. Go, he says, opening the window to let it escape. Why should I hurt thee? This world is surely wide enough to hold both thee and me.

Laurence Sterne

#9. This leaf has fallen from its mother and withered. Yet the tree does not mourn the loss. While barren, it stands tall, ready to bear the burden of winter, for it knows that through hardship comes renewal.

D.J. Niko

#10. The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the God of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and in short you are for ever floored.

Charles Dickens

#11. The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations.

Celia Green

#12. We talk about politicians being in public life, but they seldom appear in the public space where everyone is free to appear as a citizen.

Rebecca Solnit

#13. The last dregs of winter spoiling the taste of everything.

Katherine Paterson

#14. At this writing I can't even shut my lower jaw because of inadequate health care. I can't chew my food, I have trouble walking ... the list goes on. But more than anything I want to go home. If you follow the laws at the time of my conviction I should have been released already.

Leonard Peltier

#15. Political reform need not go hand in hand with economic liberalization.. I hold unconventional views about this.. I do not believe if you are a libertarian, full of diverse opinions, full of competing ideas in the market place, full of sound and fury, therefore you will succeed.

Lee Kuan Yew

#16. There is gold everywhere, most people are not trained to see it

Robert Kiyosaki

#17. I've never related to the work geek at all-it sounds much more horrible than nerd. Like a freak biting a chicken's head off in a sideshow.

Jonathan Lethem

#18. My father had osteomyelitis-his left arm was withered between his elbow and his shoulder ... But the amputation of a Stone Age man called Leaf, a stoneworker, does not relate to my father at all ...

Jim Crace

#19. Faith in Christ is able to endure doubts - it's able to endure temptations - because it faces [them], not because it pretends [they're] not there.

Michael S. Horton

#20. The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works.

Marcus Aurelius

#21. 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