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- Nov 07, 2020
Leaf Quotes
Small things, big meaning
These Leaf quotes use the image of a single leaf to describe how little control a person can have under larger political forces. Related: About quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Leave
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- Nov 07, 2020
Droplets of water would roll around the surface of a lotus leaf and not leave any trace.
- Forgiveness
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are bitter, you are like a dry leaf that you can just squash, and you can get blown away by the wind. There is much more wisdom in forgiveness.
- Price
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.
- Joke
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a joke going around campus when I was at Washington State. It went, 'What's the difference between God and Ryan Leaf?' The punchline was, 'God doesn't think he's Ryan Leaf.'
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
The United States can't keep a completely open system if the rest of the world is less open. The United States may have to take a leaf out of the book of Japan, China, and Germany, and have protectionism inside the system.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse. Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a leaf fell from a tree, I'd stop juggling and play with the leaf. I went to my prop bag and got a little bandage and stuck the leaf back on the tree. People loved it.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
I and others like me believe Timerman was chosen by President Kirshner, first as Argentina's U.N. ambassador and then as foreign minister, among other reasons because he does not hide his Jewishness and his relations with the Jewish community and, therefore, can be a 'fig leaf' for her policy.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll always represent Canada. I was born here, and my parents chose to immigrate here. There are so many things I don't see in other countries, I see here. I love having the Maple Leaf behind me.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020