Quotes & Sayings About Leafs

Summer passes into autumn in some unimaginable point of time, like the turning of a leaf. — Henry David Thoreau

It suddenly hit me one day: after we're married I'll be called Mrs T Leaf! — Tamsin Greig

Life would be better if the Leafs would make the playoffs. Life would be perfect if they'd win the Stanley Cup. — Tom Earle

You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages. — Mignon McLaughlin

The only knowledge that is worthwhile, writes Northrop Frye. is the knowledge that leafs to wisdom, for knowledge without wisdom is a body without life. — Leland Ryken

If you've only got one day to live, come see the Toronto Maple Leafs. It'll seem like forever. — Pat LaFontaine

With the fans and the Toronto Maple Leafs organization, the way I've been treated here has been awesome. — Mats Sundin

There are books, that one has for twenty years without reading them, that one always keeps at hand, that one takes along from city to city, from country to country, carefully packed, even when there is very little room, and perhaps one leafs through them while removing them from a trunk; yet one carefully refrains from reading even a complete sentence. Then after twenty years, there comes a moment when suddenly, as though under a high compulsion, one cannot help taking in such a book from beginning to end, at one sitting: it is like a revelation. Now one knows why one made such a fuss about it. It had to be with one for a long time; it had to travel; it had to occupy space; it had to be a burden; and now it has reached the goal of its voyage, now it reveals itself, now it illuminates the twenty bygone years it mutely lived with one. It could not say so much if it had not been there mutely the whole time, and what idiot would dare to assert that the same things had always been in it. — Elias Canetti

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Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism. — Florence King

From birth rocks have a desire to go nowhere, from birth leafs have a desire to be somewhere with the wind. Both get their desires. — Evans Biya

A great tree develops over time and can tell stories not only those of happiness, but also those that contain pain from what it has seen over the years, and as a result is the wise ancient tree that it is today. As the seasons change, the tree naturally goes through changes as well: where the leaves turn yellow and orange in the fall, falling by the Winter, returning in the Spring, and with full set of new leafs by the Summer. Love is no different in that there will be times when we are fully naked in the Winter, and left to wonder about Spring when it seemed so easy to love, yet the wise tree knows that no winter will last forever no matter how cold it may be. — Forrest Curran

Any cat that misses a mouse pretends it was aiming for the dead leaf. — Charlotte Gray

No matter what we are, and what we sing, Time finds a withered leaf in every laurel — Edwin Arlington Robinson

She was so delicate that, while we sat beneath the linden branches, a leaf would fall and drift down and touch her skin, and it would leave a bruise. So as we sat in the afternoon hour, beneath that fragrant linden bower, I had to chase all of the leafs that fell away. — Roman Payne

A person without much power is easily influenced by others, whether they are physical or non-physical beings. Their life is easily ruined. They are blown around like a leaf in the wind. — Frederick Lenz

Winter, the aged chief, Mighty in power, Exiles the tender leaf, Exiles the flower. — Robert Fuller Murray

I'm very proud to be wearing the "C" for the Maple Leafs. It puts a smile on my face everyday — Mats Sundin

In constructing concepts, we overlook the fact that no two things are the same. There is no such thing as the concept of a leaf, only billions and billions of leaves. — Friedrich Nietzsche

National security is the fig leaf against freedom of information. — Ralph Nader

The cool air Edie speaks of? It drifts down off the mountain, unraveling itself through trees, dipping its fingers in the streams. It comes in through the back door and through the windows cast open for it. The fat possums shiver and return to their meals. It lifts up the months on the calendar and leafs through the newspaper pattern in a pile on the table. It fills up the yellow kitchen and overflows into the hallway and spills into the rooms.
Rose closes her eyes again and smiles. — Karen Foxlee

Swinging on delicate hinges the autumn leaf almost off the stem. — Jack Kerouac

Knowledge is not a loose leaf notebook of facts. — Jacob Bronowski

I grew up trying to play for the Toronto Maple Leafs, not Team Canada. Didn't even know it existed. — Adam Oates

When you look at a tree, se it for its leafs, its branches, its trunk and the roots, then and only then will you see the tree — Takuan Soho

If you look around world, the great brands are Real Madrid, Manchester United. The Yankees, the Cowboys and the Lakers are there. We should aspire with the Maple Leafs to be there. — Tim Leiweke

This fastest of all games [hockey] has become almost as much of a national svmbol as the maple leaf. — Lester B. Pearson

How fugitive and brief is mortal life between the budding and the falling leaf. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning. — Anne Spencer

Nothing is beautiful by itself; things are beautiful with other things. Water is beautiful with autumn leafs, with a bird or with a reflection of the clouds! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him. — Henry Ward Beecher

As the bud a leaf, so at last the thought becomes a word. — Richard B. Garnett

Anyone can love a rose, but it takes a lot to love a leaf. — Tom Flynn

The universe is a vast system of exchange. Every artery of it is in motion, throbbing with reciprocity, from the planet to the rotting leaf. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Turn over a new leaf. — Edmund Burke

At some point, some insect has had sex with a leaf. — Karl Pilkington

That is not a drug. It's a leaf. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

Every leaf knows that time is very short. All life must be lived before the autumn comes! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Not a leaf moves in this country if I'm not moving it. — Augusto Pinochet

If you work, if you wait, you will find the place where the four-leaf clovers grow. — Ella Higginson

I used to go to Maple Leafs games all the time when Nic shot To Die For here in Toronto. This is a great city. I love it here. — Tom Cruise

The power of God is present at all places, even in the tiniest tree leaf. — Martin Luther

It's not that every leaf must finally fall, it's just that we can never catch them all. — Michael R. Burch

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

We all do fade as a leaf. — Isaiah

I'll turn over a new leaf. — Miguel De Cervantes

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

The faintest scraping-ticking arose as the knuckles of the hinge leafs turned against pivot pins in need of oil, and the door swung ever so slowly into the kitchen, — Dean Koontz