Grass Quotes
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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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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.
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MORAL: The grass is only greener when you're not caring for your own lawn.
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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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A man's renown is like the hue of grass, Which comes and goes.
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It is forbidden to walk on the grass. It is not forbidden to fly over the grass.
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The streams with softest sound are flowing, The grass you almost hear it growing, You hear it now, if e'er you can.
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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.
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The grass is waking in the ground, Soon it will rise and blow in waves - How can it have the heart to sway. Over the graves, New graves?
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In this way they went on, and on, and on-in the language of the story-books-until at last the village lights appeared before them, and the church spire cast a long reflection on the graveyard grass; as if it were a dial (alas, the truest in the world!) marking, whatever light shone out of Heaven, the flight of days and weeks and years, by some new shadow on that solemn ground.
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The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all.
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Strong winds buffet the sea oats and tall dune grasses, tossing sand and seabirds where it will, winding my sister's golden hair into sunlit spirals of silk until it becomes the only good memory I have of her -- the only memory I allowed myself to keep.
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Dirt rolls from his palm, Blades of grass Tumble from his hair.
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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.
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I didn't want to sit and watch the grass grow my whole life. So I moved to Miami.
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Remember that "Help us grow this grass" is a far more effective sign than "Keep off the grass".
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Beginnings start without shade,Thinner than minnows.The live grass whirls with the sun,Feet run over the simple stones,There's time enough.Behold, in the lout's eye, love.
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It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.
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May you live to see the green grass growing over your grave.
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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.
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Where do we say that a cell became a blade of grass, which became a starfish, which became a cat, which became a donkey, which became a human being? There's a real lack of evidence from change from actual species to a different type of species.
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Ball is made of leather, leather comes from cows, cows eat grass, and there is where the ball must be.
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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.
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There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass.
