Leaf Drop

Famous quotes containing the words leaf and/or drop:

“A leaf that is supposed to grow is full of wrinkles and creases before it develops; if one doesn’t have the patience and wants the leaf to be as smooth as a willow leaf from the start, then there is a problem.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

“How shall a man escape from his ancestors, or draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his father’s or mother’s life?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)