Nonfood Leaf Quotes & Sayings

I think I'd first just assemble all the children together and show them how to meditate. I'd try to show them how to find out who they are, not just what their names are and things like that...I guess, even before that, I'd get them to empty out everything their parents and everybody ever told them. — J.D. Salinger

War to me is the stupidest way of settling anything. The whole damn thing goes to pieces. — Frank Capra

I like my women like I like my coffee. I don't like coffee. — Daniel Tosh

And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that's fine with me! — Taylor Swift

Ordinary facts are arranged within time, strung along its length as on a thread. There they have their antecedents and their consequences, which crowd tightly together and press hard one upon the other without any pause. This has its importance for any narrative, of which continuity and successiveness are the soul. — Bruno Schulz

Zora Neale Hurston's "I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background. — Claudia Rankine

The most important qualification of a process analyst is not a facility for sending out information, but a facility for receiving it. Good process analysts naturally want to understand everything thoroughly. — Jakob Freund

I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision. — Clement Attlee

Just a threat of a boycott has got the Russians spinning. — Keith Olbermann

What's thought cannot be unthought. — L.M. Boston

Almost Easter


Shaking bone meal
from my bare hands
into the rose bed
where only one bush grows,
I feel as if I'm scattering
my father's ashes
all over again.

This month marks
the seventh year
my father has lain
in my garden,
his ashes in my hands
still as palpable
as bone meal or thorns.

Easter Sunday,
I will hide an egg
behind his ear.
Jesus will call down to him
to get up and play.
He won't.
But the rose bush
that is turning green,
this rose will sink its roots
a little deeper in the earth
and in a few months
drop its petals
like so many red tears.

- Felicia Mitchell — Felicia Mitchell

The tree too thick to embrace
emerges from a seedling.
A nine-storey tower rises from a brick.
A thousand-mile journey begins under your feet. — Lao-Tzu

That's what they should teach us here. How girls' brains work ... It would be more useful than divination, anyway ... — J.K. Rowling