Famous quotes containing the words compound and/or leaf:
“We are all aware that speech, like chemistry, has a structure. There is a limited set of elementsvowels and consonantsand these are combined to produce words which, in turn, compound into sentences.”
—Roger Brown (b. 1925)
“So near to paradise all pairing ends:
Here loveless birds now flock as winter friends,
Content with bud-inspecting. They presume
To say which buds are leaf and which are bloom.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)