Leaves Quotes

I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.

I love this country, but the union jack leaves me cold.

I think that souls agree to come in and do what they're going to do and then leave when they're going to leave. So there's nothing tragic when a soul leaves. I think it was already preordained.

If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime.

He can fight terrorists overseas, but he leaves our borders so they can come in here and do their thing.

We need to break our dependency on foreign sources of oil, which leaves us at the mercy of foreign powers. To do that, we should increase domestic energy production.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

I am resigning because my secret leaves the governor's office vulnerable.

He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things.

We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector, which is more invisible to public scrutiny - and thus leaves the children more open to abuse and exploitation.

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.

My photographs are not planned or composed in advance, and I do not anticipate that the onlooker will share my viewpoint. However, I feel that if my photograph leaves an image on his mind, something has been accomplished.

In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else I've ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination.

I don't want to know about the lives of other actors and I don't want people to know too much about me. If we don't know about the private lives of other actors, that leaves us as clean slates when it comes to playing characters. That's the point, they can create these other characters and I can believe them.

Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.

I could have gone on to be an engineer full time, except that there was more demand for my playing. But the love of working the board never leaves you.

People in so many countries look up to the United States as a model of democracy, but I doubt if that can continue. It leaves me with a great sense of loss.

Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.

I'm interested in the impact my movies have on people and how it affects them, and what they like and what they don't like - and what they take away from it. What leaves an impression, you know?

With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling.

All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves.

You cry tears when a man leaves you at any age - it doesn't matter whether you are 20 or 60.

Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.

That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

Well as giraffes say, you don't get no leaves unless you stick your neck out.

The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.

When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries.