Grass famous quotes

Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
-- Alan Bennett

#Children #Grass

We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.
-- Alexander Smith

#Grass #Forgetfulness #Grows

Take away my people, but leave my factories and soon grass will grow on the factory floors......Take away my factories, but leave my people and soon we will have a new and better factory.
-- Andrew Carnegie

#Leadership #People #Grass

The worst place to be is in the middle. When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.
-- Andrew Vachss

#Fighting #Elephants #Grass

I like grass, I enjoy it and it suits my game.
-- Andy Roddick

#Games #Suits #Grass

There is no dusk to be, There is no dawn that was, Only there's now, and now, And the wind in the grass.
-- Archibald MacLeish

#Wind #Dawn #Grass

There, where I have passed, the grass will never grow gain.
-- Attila the Hun

#Gains #Grass #Grows

It is forbidden to walk on the grass. It is not forbidden to fly over the grass.
-- Augusto Boal

#Grass #Forbidden #Walks

But isn't the knowledge that comes from experience more valuable than the knowledge that doesn't? It seems fairly obvious to some of us that a lot of scholars need to go outside and sniff around - walk through the grass, talk to the animals. That sort of thing.
-- Benjamin Hoff

#Animal #Needs #Grass

Its great grass at Anfield, professional grass.
-- Bill Shankly

#Football #Anfield #Grass

our finest writing will certainly come from what is unregenerate in ourselves. It will come from the part that is obdurate, unbanishable, immune to education, springing up like grass.
-- Bonnie Friedman

#Writing #Finest #Grass

Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work. I am the grass. I cover all.
-- Carl Sandburg

#Work #Body #Grass

On grass, it can be the small things that decide a match.
-- Caroline Wozniacki

#Grass #Small Things

Maybe it's better like this, better that everything should go up in a blaze of dry grass and that people should begin again.
-- Cesare Pavese

#People #Dry #Grass

If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.
-- Cher

#Motivational #Best Love #Grass

I'm not irreplaceable ... I'm nothing but grass growing on the ground; when the grass dies, another one replaces it ...
-- Chico Xavier

#Growing #Grass #Grass Growing

I'm a millionaire, but I cut the grass. And each time I cut it, it's my grass. And that is satisfying.
-- Chuck Berry

#Cutting #Grass #Millionaire

When the wind blows,the grass bends.
-- Confucius

#Blow #Wind #Grass

The grass is always greener when it's covered in money.
-- Craig Benzine

#Grass #Greener #Covered

I am the animal at the head of the pack. … I either get eaten, or I get the good grass.
-- David Tepper

#Animal #Grass #Packs

Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming.
-- Dogen

#Blossoming #Emptiness #Grass

Jews have always thought that having someone elevated with his head above the grass was not good for the Jews. I never felt that way. I believe that you have to stand up.
-- Ed Koch

#Believe #Way #Grass

We say of the oak, How grand of girth! Of the willow we say, How slender! And yet to the soft grass clothing the earth How slight is the praise we render.
-- Edgar Fawcett

#Earth #Praise #Grass

Concrete is heavy; iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.
-- Edward Abbey

#Strength #Iron #Grass

The fulness of the godhead dwelt in every blade of grass.
-- Elias Hicks

#Blades #Grass #Blades Of Grass

A narrow Fellow in the Grass Occasionally rides
-- Emily Dickinson

#Grass

The grass is always greener over the septic tank.
-- Erma Bombeck

#Tanks #Grass #Greener

he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

#Rose #Sunlight #Grass

Wait a minute! This is grass! We've been eating grass!
-- Gary Larson

#Waiting #Eating #Grass

The dirt was OK, but once you hit the grass... Wet grass is slippery
-- Greg Maddux

#Dirt #Grass

I'm Allergic to grass. Hey, it could be worse. I could be allergic to beer.
-- Greg Norman

#Beer #Hey #Grass

We're not raising grass. We're raising boys.
-- Harmon Killebrew

#Boys #Grass

The dry grasses are not dead for me. A beautiful form has as much life at one season as another.
-- Henry David Thoreau

#Beautiful #Dry #Grass

She eats grass. Don’t ask.
-- Ilona Andrews

#Grass

Reading Chaucer is like brushing through the dewy grass at sunrise.
-- James Russell Lowell

#Reading #Sunrise #Grass

The grass is always greener around the fire hydrant.
-- Jeff Rich

#Fire #Grass #Greener

How was life before Pop-Tarts, Prozac and padded playgrounds? They ate strudel, took opium and played on the grass.
-- Jennifer Michael Hecht

#Grass #Prozac #Pops

Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible.
-- Jill Lepore

#Roots #Grass #Century

I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows.
-- Jilly Cooper

#Long #Grass

The grass is always greener on the other side, unless Vince Russo has been there in which case the grass is most likely dead.
-- Jim Cornette

#Wrestling #Sides #Grass

Ach, Rangers are alright, but they still haven’t invented blue grass.
-- Jock Stein

#Blue #Grass #Rangers

I don't know whether I prefer Astroturf to grass. I never smoked Astroturf.
-- Joe Namath

#Soccer #Grass

I'm suggesting that criminalizing chemically fertilized grass in favor of unnaturally-fed corn is not a rational trade off.
-- Joel Salatin

#Favors #Corn #Grass

Summer — summer — summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
-- John Galsworthy

#Summer #Grass #Footsteps

How much power is there in a thousand noisy engines? I tell you, there is more power in a single blade of grass.
-- John Kremer

#Blades #Grass #Blades Of Grass

Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of nature's darlings.
-- John Muir

#Garden #Taste #Grass

How do you expect the Germans to revolt when they don't even dare walk on the grass?
-- Joseph Stalin

#Travel #Home #Grass

Even if you think the grass is greener on the other side, you’re going to have to mow that side too.
-- Joyce Meyer

#Thinking #Sides #Grass

Though no one had been buried here for almost thirty years, the grass was mown by yours truly. I felt a tidy graveyard made a happy graveyard.
-- Kim Harrison

#Years #Grass #Thirty

The grass is greener where you water it- not always on the other side!
-- Kim Kardashian

#Water #Sides #Grass

This soft grass suggests 'softness' to me, but also at the same time 'lying-down-ness'.
-- Louise Rennison

#Lying #Grass #Softness

It is very hard for me to switch from clay to grass.
-- Marat Safin

#Clay #Grass

One of the most important things, actually, when you're playing on grass, is to move.
-- Marat Safin

#Moving #Important #Grass

I love tennis, but I just don't like grass.
-- Marat Safin

#Tennis #Grass

We should not let grass grow on the path of friendship.
-- Marie Therese Rodet Geoffrin

#Path #Grass #Should

A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten . . .
-- Mary E. Pearson

#Rain #Shade #Grass

If the grass is greener somewhere else...start watering your own lawn!
-- Michael Beckwith

#Lawns #Grass #Grass Is Greener

Ive been an engineer, barman, skip lorry driver, coalman, boat window manufacturer, contract grass cutter and builder.
-- Neal Asher

#Boat #Window #Grass

What the younger generation didn't understand was that the grass was greenest where it's watered..
-- Nicholas Sparks

#Generations #Grass #Younger Generation

There hath grown no grass on my heels since I went hence.
-- Nicholas Udall

#Action #Grass #Heels

Remember that "Help us grow this grass" is a far more effective sign than "Keep off the grass".
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Helping #Remember #Grass

Human: That's stupid. Isn't there grass on both sides?
-- Orson Scott Card

#Stupid #Sides #Grass

Everybody always thinks the grass is always greener.
-- Patrick Ewing

#Thinking #Grass #Greener

Please keep off the grass.
-- Peter Ustinov

#Life And Death #Grass #Please

We will burn the old grass and the new will grow.
-- Pol Pot

#Grass #Grows

To kill the grass you must also remove the root
-- Pol Pot

#Roots #Grass

The grass is always greener once you don't have to mow a lawn anymore.
-- R. K. Milholland

#Maturity #Lawns #Grass

The aged are terrible - mere heaps of cinders on the grass from which none can tell how tall the flames once were or what company gathered round them.
-- Rebecca West

#Flames #Age #Grass

From our broadcasting box you can't see any grass at all. It is simply a carpet of humanity.
-- Richie Benaud

#Inspirational Sports #Humanity #Grass

Research is a scientific activity dedicated to discovering what makes grass green.
-- Russell Baker

#Research #Green #Grass

Grass is a surface I have always loved, Wimbledon is a tournament I have always loved.
-- Steffi Graf

#Wimbledon #Surface #Grass

deep in the meadow , under the willow , a bed of grass , a soft green pillow
-- Suzanne Collins

#Green #Bed #Grass

From the highest god to the meanest grass, the same power is present in all - whether manifested or not. We shall have to call forth that power by going from door to door.
-- Swami Vivekananda

#Power #Doors #Grass

I am solitary as grass. What is it I miss? Shall I ever find it, whatever it is?
-- Sylvia Plath

#Missing #Grass #Solitary

In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing
-- T. S. Eliot

#Singing #Moonlight #Grass

Direct me gods, whose changes are all holy, To where it flickers deep in grass, the moly.
-- Thom Gunn

#Holy #Grass #Direct

It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.
-- Thomas Wentworth Higginson

#Grass #Walt #Discredit

I can't sit on grass without a blanket.
-- Tia Carrere

#Grass #Blanket

It's good to touch the green, green grass of home
-- Tom Jones

#Home #Green #Grass

I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf. (When asked whether he preferred grass or Astroturf
-- Tug McGraw

#Sports #Grass

In the plains the grass grows tall, since there is no one to cut it. There is no one to water it either.
-- Vera Nazarian

#Cutting #Water #Grass

Wherever the Turkish hoof trods, no grass grows.
-- Victor Hugo

#Grass #Turkish #Grows

I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.
-- Whoopi Goldberg

#Color #Imagination #Grass

Never define your success by somebody else's success. I never looked at another man's grass to tell how green mine should be.
-- Xzibit

#Men #Green #Grass

Make sure you cut the grass low so the snakes show
-- Banky W.

#Cutting #Snakes #Grass

I'm involved in issues, and issues are about grass-roots politics.
-- J.B. Pritzker

#Roots #Issues #Grass

Do not allow grass to grow on the road of friendship.
-- Marie Therese Rodet Geoffrin

#Friendship #Grass #Grows

the camels had strayed far in search of scarce grass. When collected, they displayed a fiendish ingenuity in throwing their loads and tangling themselves up in every possible strap.
-- Rosita Forbes

#Camels #Grass #Throwing

The person who knows a great deal about things but has never learnt to see, tends to be assertive; those who have once lost their hearts to a blade of grass or a glowworm and sensed God's omnipresence within them are at least on the road to reverence.
-- Gerald Vann

#Heart #Blades #Grass

I guess the grass is always greener elsewhere.
-- Gilles Marini

#Grass #Grass Is Always Greener #Elsewhere

I was always a 'grass is greener' kind of guy.
-- Joe Buck

#Guy #Kind #Grass