#leaves

The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible. ↗

— Max Muller

#banished #begins #bible #chapters #clear

That is the returning to God which in reality is never concluded on earth but yet leaves behind in the soul a divine home sickness, which never again ceases. ↗

— Max Muller

#behind #ceases #concluded #divine #earth

Never raise your hand to your children - it leaves your midsection unprotected. ↗

— Robert Orben

#children #hand #leaves #never #raise

Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#contrary #does #fictions #hand #i

I am resigning because my secret leaves the governor's office vulnerable. ↗

— James McGreevey

#because #governor #i #i am #leaves

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#effects #good #leaves #love #loved

It's usually when the cameras leave that the support leaves as well. ↗

— Petra Nemcova

#leave #leaves #support #usually #well

As costs mount, in lives and dollars, it is natural to second guess, but one lesson I hope we have learned is that the U.S. cannot go it alone in a policy that leaves American troops taking all the risk and American taxpayers paying all of the costs. ↗

— John Spratt

#american #american taxpayers #american troops #cannot #costs

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity. ↗

— Georg Brandes

#errors #humanity #inheritance #leaves #stream

All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves. ↗

— Robert Browning

#i #june #leaves #now #rose