Pattering Leaves Quotes & Sayings

The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement. — Don Roff

Fred is staying with his mother these holidays. She's living in London for six months, in Chelsea, studying Georgian underwear at the National Art Library. It's a thesis, not a fetish. — Fiona Wood

Again, I am awed, overwhelmed by the strength and emotion conveyed in the human voice. For the first time since this phenomenon started happening to me, I begin to understand the power it could have and why our ancestors mourned its loss. Every sound around me - the renewed pattering of rain, the wind in the leaves - all of is suddenly has a new meaning. I can see how these sounds don't interfere with the world so much as enhance it. The scope and potential are huge. It's like having a new color to paint with. — Richelle Mead

I don't know if I've had my share of drama, but I've definitely had my share of hard times. — Serena Williams

Why is it considered so glorious to kill an enemy, when it is not considered contemptible to create one? — Anne E.G. Nydam

My State Senate district was in the northern part of Oklahoma and they were redrawing the districts. — Don Nickles

Grief is the price Love pays for being in the same world with Death. — Margaret Deland

slipping between the smooth stones, gushing into ferny basins and out again; and there was the splashing of big drops on large leaves, and something else - what was it? - a faint stirring and shaking, the snapping of a twig and then such silence that it seemed some one was listening. Round the corner of Crescent Bay, between the piled-up masses of broken rock, a flock of sheep came pattering. They were huddled together, a small, tossing, woolly mass, and their thin, stick-like legs trotted along quickly as if the cold and the quiet — Katherine Mansfield

The Lower City is MINE, Its People are MINE.
If I Find Them That's Doing All This Kidnapping
And Murdering, They'd Best Pray For Mercy,
Because Once I Get My Teeth In 'Em
I Will NEVER Let Them Go. — Tamora Pierce

I heard through the nightThe rush and the clamour;The pulse of the fightLike blows of Thor's hammer;The pattering flightOf the leaves, and the anguishedMoan of the forest vanquished. — Henry Van Dyke

The rustle of the poplar leaves about the house worried her, it sounded so like pattering raindrops, and the dull, far-away roar of the gulf, to which she listened delightedly at other times, loving its strange, sonorous, haunting rhythm, now seemed like a prophecy of storm and disaster to a small maiden who particularly wanted a fine day. — L.M. Montgomery

Bandwagoning is a strategy for the weak. — John Mearsheimer

The water-lily, in the midst of waters, opens its leaves and expands its petals, at the first pattering of the shower, and rejoices in the rain-drops with a quicker sympathy than the packed shrubs in the sandy desert. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I just don't want them to change me, if I'm going to die I still want to be me. — Suzanne Collins

And they certainly wouldn't take you along to a murder. That would be irresponsible parenting. — Kelley Armstrong

First, you work for money, and then money works for you. — Idowu Koyenikan

By being in harmony with your environment you are able to control more precisely what happens. — Steven Redhead

I think that most of the children's writers live in the world that they've created, and their children are kind of phantoms that wander around the edge of it in the world, but actually the children's writers are the children. — A.S. Byatt