Grass Quotes - page 4

Love dies in many different ways, and it's natural for the grass to seem greener on the other side. But it's not a competition; there's plenty of pain to go around. (Rob Sheffield)
There are songs that come free from the blue-eyed grass, from the dust of a thousand country roads. This is one of them. View quote
Robert James Waller
I had been right: freedom smelled like ozone and thunderstorms and gunpowder all at once, like snow and bonfires and cut grass, it tasted like seawater and oranges. View quote
Tana French
I asked the waiter, 'Is this milk fresh?' He said, 'Lady, three hours ago it was grass.' View quote
Phyllis Diller
If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher. View quote
Debbie Macomber
The sky was electric blue above the trees but the yard felt dark. Stephanie went to the edge of the lawn and sat her forehead on her knees. The grass and soil were still warm from the day. She wanted to cry but she couldn't. The feeling was too deep. View quote
Jennifer Egan
Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread and the wine. View quote
Geraldine Brooks
There was no more grass, no flowers, not even any moss: dusty granite blocks covered the ice and an occasional grinding groan reminded us that we were on a slow-moving glacier. View quote
Chris Bonington
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. View quote
Eleanora Duse
I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips. View quote
Violette Leduc
Starlight and comet tails burned the tips of endless grass below into hammered silver. Like thousands of tapers in the chapel, just blown out but still glowing. If one could drown in the grass...it might be the best way to die. (Gregory Maguire)
Okay let's get this over with, no I'm not seasick, yes I've always been green, No I didn't eat grass as a child. View quote
Gregory Maguire
Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by. View quote
Mahmoud Darwich
Ruminants are a perfectly normal thing to possess when you live in upstate New York. It's just moving scenery. It's kind of like the equivalent of Great Danes. It's the way you keep your grass mowed. It's the way you keep your weed-whacking to a minimum. View quote
Vera Farmiga
I can't even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there's a subway handy, or a record store or some other sign that people do not totally regret life. It's more important to confirm the least sincere. The clouds get enough attention as it is. View quote
Frank O'Hara
Like sheep that get lost nibbling away at the grass because they never look up, we often focus so much on ourselves and our problems that we get lost. View quote
Allen Klein
All over the land are vast and handsome pastures, with good grass for cattle, and it strikes me the soil would be very fertile were the country inhabited and improved by reasonable people. View quote
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
I liked back in the sixties where you'd turn on the radio and go 'Oh that's Hendrix, that's Creedence Clearwater, that's The Doors, there's The Grass Roots, The Monkees, there's Big Brother.' You could just instantly hear it and tell. But in the eighties and nineties there's no way you could do that. View quote
Creed Bratton
On grass, it can be the small things that decide a match. View quote
Caroline Wozniacki
I'm not here to say I don't eat vegetables - I do, a lot of them - but, from a soil perspective, they're actually more costly than a cow grazing on grass. View quote
Dan Barber
A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following. (Duncan Sheik)
May you live to see the green grass growing over your grave. View quote
Frank R. Stockton
The dirt was OK, but once you hit the grass... Wet grass is slippery. View quote
Greg Maddux
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.' View quote
Harmon Killebrew
The grass is always greener around the fire hydrant. View quote
Jeff Rich
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