#leaves

Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out. ↗

— Jack Kemp

#economic #economic growth #growth #leaves #mean

That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#always #blind #do the right thing #everybody #eye

There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves. ↗

— John Ruskin

#leaves #only #such #things

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes. ↗

— John Ruskin

#dead #drop #faults #good #imitate

Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates, leaves a burning scar on the people's conscience. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

#burning #conquered #conscience #dictates #inflicted

I deem it established, then, that the Constitution does not recognize property in man, but leaves that question, as between the states, to the law of nature and of nations. ↗

— William H. Seward

#constitution #deem #does #established #i

In life, when stuff happens the instinct is to close off your heart. By leaving your heart open, it leaves room for someone else to come in. ↗

— Jane Seymour

#come #else #happens #heart #instinct

I thought about how the past can become so small. An entire day, 24 separate, heavy hours, becomes the size of a tiny brown leaf falling from a tree. Before you know it, a whole year is just a pile of dead leaves on the ground. The year or so I’d spent in love with Chad was starting to feel so long ago, swept away by the wind. I knew that this year would soon feel far away too. ↗

— Kimberly Novosel

#healing #in-love #leaves #love #pain

Are ye the ghosts of fallen leaves, O flakes of snow, For which, through naked trees, the winds A-mourning go? ↗

— John B. Tabb

#fall #foliage #leaves #snow #snowflakes

Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ↗

— Red Buttons

#hand #kids #leaves #never #raise