Famous quotes containing the words silver, laurel and/or leaf:
“Or what woman having ten silver coins, if she loses one of them, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search carefully until she finds it?”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 15:8.
“Smart lad, to slip betimes away
From fields where glory does not stay,
And early though the laurel grows
It withers quicker than the rose.”
—A.E. (Alfred Edward)
“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)