Famous quotes containing the words long, leaf and/or pine:
“O weary night, O long and tedious night,
Abate thy hours, shine comforts from the east.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“... Can poets thought
That springs from body and in body falls
Like this pure jet, now lost amid blue sky,
Now bathing lily leaf and fishs scale,
Be mimicry?”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree seems to wait, and neither with impatience:Mthey give no thought to the little people below them whose impatience and curiosity eat them up alive.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)