Leaf Quotations

Tiles, the best furniture, fabrics, bath fixtures, bronze - just leaf through any design magazine and you immediately understand they're all 'Made in Italy.' We have the premier opera house in the world, La Scala, and behind the Nobel given to CERN is the research of many Italians.

The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.

We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth.

If you put a real leaf and a silk leaf side by side, you'll see something of the difference between Homer's poetry and anyone else's. There seem to be real leaves still alive in the 'Iliad,' real animals, real people, real light attending everything.

Sometimes the buzz of reading about others eating comes from the voyeuristic thrill of seeing how the other half lives: the gold leaf and truffles or - in the case of Trimalchio's feast in Petronius' 'Satyricon' - the dormice and honey.

I especially remember that on All Souls Day, when so many people wanted new monuments for the graves, our whole family pitched in. I did the lettering on the stones, my brother did the carving, and my sisters put the finishing touches on them, the gold leaf and all that.

I get great pleasure from stuffed foods, from an apple strudel to a vegetable samosa, from a whole roasted bird with a sweet and savoury stuffing to a vine leaf filled with rice and spices.

We had a white cake with a pink Canadian maple leaf in the middle of the cake.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Leaf got the big contract and that was his utopia - he didn't want to work for anything else. That's what makes this so hard: You don't know how guys are going to respond to financial success, if they will still work hard. If you knew that, you wouldn't have so many busts.

Most people are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flutters, and falls to the ground. But a few others are like stars which travel one defined path: no wind reaches them, they have within themselves their guide and path.

I am indifferent if my spinach is leaf or creamed; if I work to fatiguing point or spend days doing nothing; if I smoke fifty cigarettes a day or none at all; if it rains or shines; if the dentist hurts, or the shoe pinches, or I secure a bargain.

If I had to put my money on it, ... I'd say he's not going to read it. He might leaf through it. He's not going to sit down and read it.

I find that people are wanting to cook more, garden more, but are not sure how to start. They are surprised to see a fresh bay leaf that they don't have to pick out of beef stew. They are really excited to learn that they can cook with the roses in their garden.

Having said that, I'm glad to be back. I wanted to be a Maple Leaf and it seems they wanted me.

He's going to have to get a Maple Leaf tattoo to play on that team.

I, a light canoe will build me... that shall float upon the river, like a yellow leaf of autumn, like a yellow water lily!

Our fans are more youthful than Leaf fans, more energetic and interactive.

Robin considers herself an explorer whose discoveries are in the lines of a leaf or the turn of a cheekbone.

I was playing with this guy one time, and he was shooting a hundred and fifty, probably. We got to the last hole, and it took him about seven to get to a bunker on the green. Then he picked a leaf up right by his ball, in the bunker, which is a two-stroke penalty. Then he was leaning on his sand wedge in the bunker, grounding his club, so there's another two-stroke penalty, so he was 11. And then he hit that one about a foot in front of him in 12, and then he got that on to about 8 feet and made the putt. So he makes his putt, and I say, 'Joe, great putt. Is that a 4?' And he goes, 'Oh, no. Six.' It was really like a 14 or something.

When you're in your 20s, then you and your world are the biggest thing, and everything revolves around what you're doing. Now I realize I'm a leaf floating along on the water on top of some river. That's where I'm at.

We just didn't want to leave any leaf unturned.

Those jackets look just fine on them. But you just know everyone gets up a little more to play you. You should get up to play everyone here anyway, but there's something about seeing that maple leaf that adds something.

We are pleased our revenue trend continues to show year-over-year improvement in both our cardiorespiratory and New Leaf health and fitness markets,

Toronto would be an excellent addition to Major League Soccer under the leadership of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, one of the preeminent sports and entertainment companies in the world, ... We are enthusiastic about bringing an MLS team to Toronto and are prepared to host the 2008 All-Star Game and an MLS Cup in Toronto by 2012.

Without my grace, not even a leaf can move.

Turn Over a New Leaf -- Try Vegetarian.

To-night the winds begin to rise/ And roar from yonder dropping day:/ The last red leaf is whirled away,/ The rooks are blown about the skies.

There is always some fig leaf being used.

There is also an area with an inclined track where kids can build a kite then fly it around the room. The kids then take the kite home. We have a water table in the shape of a leaf where several kids can gather around with water toys and explore.

The ordinary bronze powder is, as before mentioned, made from an exceedingly thin leaf of beaten metal, resembling an ordinary leaf of gold.

This was absolutely terrifying for a few moments. Basically your ears popped, there's a really loud bang and there was a lot of white noise. It was like somebody turned on a leaf blower in your ear.

We felt this time we took a bit of a leaf out of Lance Armstrong's book. They looked at a bit of video of his mental preparation ... I think the boys got a little bit out of that sort of thinking.

We feel quite confident and satisfied that we, through a fairly robust process, have reached full and fair value in this offer from Maple Leaf for our shareholders.

Consent is simply a fig leaf for marketing.

It would take a long time for a broom to get as much dust into the air as a leaf blower.

These companies are allowed to bring in foreign leaf which is substandard to Canadian leaf, and that's being smoked by people here,

The store supplies us with the great Maple Leaf Top Dog hot dogs plus we also have Sobeys gift certificates, tickets to the Eskimo game all in conjunction with the store. Its a lot of fun to talk with people, talk up the football game and also to talk about the store and the area.

I've never been around anything like it. We'd stop 'em, three and out. Then Ryan Leaf and our offense would give 'em the ball back on the first play, so we'd go out and hold them, three and out, again. We never let up.

Rust spores can be carried by wind currents hundreds or even thousands of miles, even across oceans. They are eventually brought down to earth by rain, and a leaf that's been wet for several hours is needed in order for a spore to germinate and infect a plant.

Ryan Leaf is doing great now. If he progresses the way he is now, we're going to have a quarterback that's going to be reckoned with in the near future. And that's not political.

That's why it's called the leaf of life, and seen as an important symbol. It only needs water and it will stay alive.

Alien worms brought in by the fishing industry are eating all the leaf matter. They advance right through and eat things up. You take that away, and the whole forest changes.

This is the best getaway for me, the best escape, ... Growing up, this is what I wanted to do, where I wanted to be. I mean, me, actually being a Toronto Maple Leaf ...

They use tools -- there is a South African fish that lays its eggs on a leaf and transports them around on it to protect them from predators and strong currents. Fish socialize with each other and have very long-term memories.

There's a red leaf that falls from a purple tree it falls it floats down One red leaf against a clear blue sky it floats down Past the marble in the lobby and the geese in flight To the darkening river in the autumn light Where it touches down O like a great bird landing.

It's frustrating for me, and it's also frustrating for the guys, too. I want to go out and do my best and get this team on the right track. Just glad it's the end of April, maybe I can turn over a new leaf here in May.

It kind of looks like common blight, but the dead areas and yellowing is in the center of the leaf and is only limited by the veins and veinlets,

I've heard that for a long, long time. I wasn't even here during the Leaf era. Our ownership was. But I can tell you this, we are open-minded to anything, whether it's using the first selection on a quarterback or getting one in free agency. If it's a first-spot quarterback, so be it. The past will not have an impact on the pick.

Not a leaf moves in Chile if I don't know about it,

Not a leaf moved. Everything was gray. All the houses were the same one color. There were no squirrels, no birds. If you saw something move, it was either a dog or a cat. They clung onto trees. We would bark like dogs and the dogs would bark back at us. I took a speakerphone to amplify my voice.

It's when a fruit is growing on a tree and a twig or leaf brushes against the fruit as it's maturing and leaves this mark. It's a characteristic of a lot of oranges you never see.

I hit probably the best shot of my life out of the fairway bunker. As soon as I hit it I knew it was going to be good. Then I knew I needed to make it to have any chance. I was shaking like a leaf on that last putt. Luckily I got it done.

In Toronto, the Maple Leaf emblem is as strong as the New York Yankees,

Iceberg is through the roof. All the leaf lettuce is pretty high.

I do not believe that this nomination was withdrawn simply because of the president's refusal to release White House documents. That is a fig leaf to cover the real problem which was a badly mismanaged and rush nomination.

For the past 14 years I have been wearing the Maple Leaf on my jersey and it's always been an honor, but today's its very special.

You know I won't turn over a new leaf I am so obstinate, but then I am no less obstinate in being your affectionate Husband.

And he that will to bed go sober, Falls with the leaf still in October

And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.

Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.

The statue that advertises its modesty with a fig leaf really brings its modesty under suspicion

Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower

The caterpillar on the leaf / Repeats to thee thy mother's grief.