Grass Quotes

• We are bombarded with reasons to stay inside: we're afraid of mosquitoes because of West Nile and grass because of pesticides and sun because of cancer and sunscreen because of vitamin-D deficiency.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Sun
  • Cancer
  • Inside

• I was born in an Ilokano village called Cabugawan. Most of the houses in it were roofed with thatch, pan-aw, a species of wild grass.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Grass
  • WIld
  • Village

• Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Speak
  • Name
  • Grass

• Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favor compared with the products of nature, the living cell of the plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Man
  • Blade
  • Duplicates

• You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.

  

  Ilya Ehrenburg
  • Earth
  • Green
  • Grass

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

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Up
  • Sea
  • Lock

• I do not fear grassy tracks. Whether there is grass or not on the wicket, I am not worried.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Worried
  • Grass
  • Tracks

• I’d like to see Manhattan underwater. I’d like to see when the human population plummets and there are no more high rises, because nobody’s buying them. I’m excited about that. Money and desire—all that is going to collapse, and wild green grasses are going to take over.

  

  Hayao Miyazaki
  • Desire
  • Excited
  • Buying

• Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Business
  • Body
  • Negative

• Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Black
  • Full
  • Insects

• God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • God
  • Heart
  • Grass

• I like almost everything, even country twang, disco, blue grass and accordions.

  

  Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister
  • Country
  • Blue
  • Grass

• I love tennis, but I just don't like grass.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Like
  • Tennis
  • Grass

• 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.

  

  Dan Barber
  • Perspective
  • Grass
  • Soil

• It is very hard for me to switch from clay to grass.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Me
  • Grass
  • Clay

• The Spanish troops returned and we could yet discover the grass beaten down in the direction which they went.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Down
  • Direction
  • Spanish

• Wherever the Turkish hoof trods, no grass grows.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Grass
  • Turkish
  • Trods

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

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Smell
  • Grass
  • Summers

• Everybody always thinks the grass is always greener.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Always
  • Everybody
  • Grass

• I was actually born in L.A. My sisters and I were playing in a parking lot, and my dad was like, 'Nah, nah, nah. Let's go give 'em some grass.'

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Dad
  • Born
  • Parking

• No matter who you are, the grass is never greener on the other side.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Never
  • Matter
  • Grass

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

  

  Marat Safin
  • Important
  • You
  • 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.

  

  Alvin Nathaniel Joiner
  • Men
  • Success
  • Green

• I was about 13 or 14 when I heard Malcolm X's speech 'Message to the Grass Roots.'

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Speech
  • Roots
  • Grass

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