Heather Watson Quotes
For me, Wimbledon is such a special tournament. I feel at home when I play there, and the grass is perfect.
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I love the smell of freshly cut grass. It takes me back to summers in Maine.
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Mangroves, salt marshes and sea grass lock away carbon at up to five times the rate of tropical forests.
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I'm a millionaire, but I cut the grass. And each time I cut it, it's my grass. And that is satisfying.
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The worst place to be is in the middle. When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.
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Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.
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In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.
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I have seen lightning light fires in the long grass ahead of me as I have ridden. No wonder the Aborigines tremble when the sky rumbles!
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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.
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Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.
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Between the wolf in the tall grass and the wolf in the tall story there is a shimmering go-between. That go-between, that prism, is the art of literature.
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I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes as common as the grass.
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The wall is silence, the grass is sleep, Tall trees of peace their vigil keep, And the Fairy of Dreams with moth-wings furled. Plays soft on her flute to the drowsy world.
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O Earth, O Earth, return! Arise from out the dewy grass; Night is worn; And the morn Rises from the slumbrous mass.
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Wherever the Turkish hoof trods, no grass grows.
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The mind that thought of light, heavy, grey, yellow, still, swift, also conceived of magic that would make heavy things light and able to fly, turn grey lead into yellow gold, and the still rock into a swift water. If it could do the one, it could do the other; it inevitably did both. When we can take green from grass, blue from heaven, and red from blood, we have already an enchanter's power.
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Insects were scurrying about in the shade cast by the grass, and the lawn was a huge monotonous forest of thousands of little green blades, all equal, all alike, hiding the world from each other. Anguished, she thought, "I don't want to be just another blade of grass."
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Wimbledon is getting a bit too like Royal Ascot. It's not what happens or who wins so much, as what clothes do I have on.
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I like to think how easily Nature will absorb London as she absorbed the mastodon, setting her spiders to spin the winding-sheet and her worms to fill in the grave, and her grass to cover it pitifully up, adding flowers - as an unknown hand added them to the grave of Nero.
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One of my passions is that children enjoy their time at school - and reading for pleasure can be an important part of that.
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Obedience is a choice. It is a choice between our own limited knowledge & power & God's unlimited wisdom & omnipotence.
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We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.
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Books do actually consume air and exhale perfumes.
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For me, Wimbledon is such a special tournament. I feel at home when I play there, and the grass is perfect.
