Grass Quotes

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. (Muhammad Ali)
There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice. View quote
John Calvin
There's a snake lurking in the grass. View quote
Virgil
Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas. View quote
Paul Samuelson
There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. View quote
Henry Miller
Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts. View quote
Camille Paglia
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the blue sky, is by no means waste of time. View quote
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. View quote
Helen Keller
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. (John Steinbeck)
Lesbians, homosexuals, masochism, sadism are not perversions. Actually, there are only two perversions: hockey on grass and ballet on ice. View quote
Faina Ranevskaya
A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
If we had a keen vision and feeling it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of the roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity. View quote
George Eliot
I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic. View quote
George Carlin
Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do. View quote
Karel Čapek
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. View quote
Hal Borland
It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. View quote
Eudora Welty
And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together. View quote
Jonathan Swift
What though the radiance which was once so bright; Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour; Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find; Strength in what remains behin. View quote
William Wordsworth
The grass is always greener over the septic tank. (Erma Bombeck)
In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
Grass is a surface I have always loved, Wimbledon is a tournament I have always loved. View quote
Steffi Graf
Green is my favorite. And it's my favorite because it's the color of my wife's eyes, grass, trees, life, and money, and mother earth! View quote
Casper Van Dien
The fulness of the godhead dwelt in every blade of grass. View quote
Elias Hicks
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