Victor Hugo Quotes

Wherever the Turkish hoof trods, no grass grows.

Victor Hugo

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• I love the smell of freshly cut grass. It takes me back to summers in Maine.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Smell
  • Grass
  • Summers

• Mangroves, salt marshes and sea grass lock away carbon at up to five times the rate of tropical forests.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Up
  • Sea
  • Grass

• 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
  • Time
  • Cutting
  • Grass

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

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • Fighting
  • Worst
  • Middle

• In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Firsts
  • Bird
  • Century

• 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!

  

  R. M. Williams
  • Light
  • Grass
  • Fires

• 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.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Matter
  • Grass
  • Columnists

• 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.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Literature

• I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes as common as the grass.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Desire
  • Common
  • Grass

• 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.

  

  Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
  • Sleep
  • Silence
  • Grass

• Either our history shall with full mouth Speak freely of our acts, or else our grave, Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless mouth, Not worshipped with a waxen epitaph.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Speak
  • Graves
  • Epitaph

• The streams with softest sound are flowing, The grass you almost hear it growing, You hear it now, if e'er you can.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Nature
  • Growing
  • Grass

• O Earth, O Earth, return! Arise from out the dewy grass; Night is worn; And the morn Rises from the slumbrous mass.

  

  William Blake
  • Earth
  • Grass
  • Rises

• No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Winter
  • Thinks
  • Grass

• 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.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Power
  • Magic
  • Lead

• 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."

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Grass
  • Blades

• The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all.

  

  Anzia Yezierska
  • Bird
  • Fruit
  • Flight

• There are people who say that "Gül can't be my president". These people don't have good manners for and they should renounce their Turkish citizenship foremost this man will be chosen democratically by the people.

  

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan
  • President
  • Turkish
  • Democratically

• I would require every producer of food to follow and have enforced a standard safety plan. We know how to produce safe food. It has a horrible name; it's called HACCP - Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point - and this was a food safety system that was developed for NASA so that astronauts wouldn't get sick in outer space. If you just think about what it might be like to have food poison under conditions of zero gravity, you don't even want to think about it.

  

  Marion Nestle
  • Food
  • Control
  • Space

• We have to learn how to work within the limits that are possible, not what is desirable.

  

  Roberto Azevedo
  • Work
  • Learn
  • Limits

• So the America I came to know growing up was filled with all the excitement and possibilities found in living the American dream.

  

  Mia Love
  • Growing
  • Possibility
  • Excitement

• The hottest look for a night out is a deep side part. If that part is not at least three inches in length, then start over. The wider the part, the more open your eyes appear. It is an alluring and seductive look that will keep your date's attention the entire night.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Night
  • Attention
  • Eyes

• For the success, Although particular, shall give a scantling Of good or bad unto the general; And in such indexes, although small pricks To their subsequent volumes, there is seen The baby figure of the giant mass Of things to come at large.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Book
  • Giving
  • Baby

• Wherever the Turkish hoof trods, no grass grows.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Grass
  • Turkish
  • Trods