Famous quotes containing the words plain and/or leaf:
“Give me a mysteryjust a plain and simple onea mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little, barefoot mystery: give me a mysteryjust one!”
—Yevgeny Yevtushenko (b. 1933)
“Southern trees bear a strange fruit
Blood on the leaf and blood at the root
Black bodies swingin in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hangin in the poplar trees.”
—Billie Holiday [Eleanor Fagan] (19151959)