Grass Quotes

• We say of the oak, How grand of girth! Of the willow we say, How slender! And yet to the soft grass clothing the earth How slight is the praise we render.

  

  Edgar Fawcett
  • Praise
  • Slender
  • Willow

• When she walked...she stretched out long and thin like a little tiger, and held her head high to look over the grass as if she were treading the jungle.

  

  Sarah Orne Jewett
  • Long
  • Cat
  • Jungle

• Tis moonlight, summer moonlight, All soft and still and fair; The solemn hour of midnight Breathes sweet thoughts everywhere, But most where trees are sending Their breezy boughs on high, Or stooping low are lending A shelter from the sky. And there in those wild bowers A lovely form is laid; Green grass and dew-steeped flowers Wave gently round her head.

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Fair
  • Wave
  • Moonlight

• 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

• The old adage tells us that the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, but the math tells us why: the unknown has a chance of being better, even if we actually expect it to be no different, or if it’s just as likely to be worse.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Chance
  • Grass
  • Adage

• 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 dragon is withered, His bones are now crumbled; His armour is shivered, His splendour is humbled! Though sword shall be rusted, And throne and crown perish With strength that men trusted And wealth that they cherish, Here grass is still growing, And leaves are yet swinging, The white water flowing, And elves are yet singing Come! Tra-la-la-lally! Come back to the valley!

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Comeback
  • Trusted
  • Dragon

• I know the colour rose, and it is lovely, But not when it ripens in a tumour; And healing greens, leaves and grass, so springlike, In limbs that fester are not springlike.

  

  Dannie Abse
  • Lovely
  • Colour
  • Limbs

• May you live to see the green grass growing over your grave.

  

  Frank Richard Stockton
  • Growing
  • Green
  • Grave

• I didn't want to sit and watch the grass grow my whole life. So I moved to Miami.

  

  Brooke Hogan
  • Life
  • Watch
  • Grass

• Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It's wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Paint
  • Insane
  • Grass

• It is the retention by twentieth-century, Atom-Age men of the Neolithic point of view that says: You stay in your village and I will stay in mine. If your sheep eat our grass we will kill you, or we may kill you anyhow to get all the grass for our own sheep. Anyone who tries to make us change our ways is a witch and we will kill him. Keep out of our village.

  

  Carleton S. Coon
  • Men
  • Trying
  • May

• It is forbidden to walk on the grass. It is not forbidden to fly over the grass.

  

  Augusto Boal
  • Fly
  • Walk
  • Grass

• It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.

  

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • Grass
  • Walt
  • Discredit

• Dirt rolls from his palm, Blades of grass Tumble from his hair.

  

  Gary Soto
  • Hair
  • Grass
  • Dirt

• A man's renown is like the hue of grass, Which comes and goes.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Man
  • Grass
  • Renown

• She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands full of earth, coaxing life our of the dry, dull grass my father had spent years pushing a mower over.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Father
  • Earth
  • Hands

• The major labels, they roll with whatever is making money. I don't know if R&B turned into making banjo music and it sounded like blue grass, they'll buy it if it's selling.

  

  Warryn Campbell
  • Blue
  • Selling
  • Labels

• Ball is made of leather, leather comes from cows, cows eat grass, and there is where the ball must be.

  

  Alfredo Di Stefano
  • Ball
  • Cows
  • Leather

• Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed The speculating rooks at their nests cawed And saw from elm tops, delicate as flower of grass, What we below could not see, Winter pass.

  

  Edward Thomas
  • Flower
  • Winter
  • Snow

• I got my best foot forward onto greener grass, cause there ain't no future living in the past.

  

  Black Hawk
  • Future
  • Grass
  • Foot

• We pick up the lost bits and pieces, from the grass where we left them, and bring them with us into a future that will be made up of so much more as well.

  

  Varg Vikernes Burzum
  • Lost
  • Made
  • Wells

• There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Music
  • Grass
  • Falls

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