Famous quotes containing the words shoots and/or leaves:
“February is a suitable month for dying. Everything around is dead, the trees black and frozen so that the appearance of green shoots two months hence seems preposterous, the ground hard and cold, the snow dirty, the winter hateful, hanging on too long.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)
“Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)