Leaf Veins

Famous quotes containing the words leaf and/or veins:

    On leaf of palm, on sedge-wrought roll;
    On plastic clay and leathern scroll,
    Man wrote his thoughts; the ages passed,
    And lo! the Press was found at last!
    John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)

    How shall a man escape from his ancestors, or draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his father’s or mother’s life?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)