Grass Quotes · Page 18

It would be equally reasonable to say that sheep are born carnivorous, and everywhere nibble grass.

— Emile Faguet

The grass is always greener on the other side but I just focus on my yard.

— Anonymous

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

— Dante Alighieri

He sprang from the grass roots of the country clubs of America.

— Alice Roosevelt Longworth

“for a large lemon moon was only just setting in the forest of high grass above their heads,”

— G.K. Chesterton

Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.

— Thomas A. Edison

And so the seasons went rolling on into summer, as one rambles into higher and higher grass.

— Henry David Thoreau

Human: That's stupid. Isn't there grass on both sides?

— Orson Scott Card

On the course, what is feared is like a magnet. Water, bunkers, trees, ravines, high grass - whatever you fear turns magnetic.

— Wiffi Smith

And I'd like to give my love to everybody, and let them know that the grass may look greener on the other…

— Little Richard

We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under…

— Walt Whitman

I used to lie down on the grass and draw the blades as they grew - until every square foot of meadow,…

— John Ruskin

How much power is there in a thousand noisy engines? I tell you, there is more power in a single blade of…

— John Kremer

I went through one period when I smoked a surprising, a really breath-taking, amount of grass almost every night.

— David Letterman

The fears of what may come to pass, I cast them all away, Among the clover scented grass, Among the new-mown hay.

— Louise Imogen Guiney

There was never a moment in George Carlin's career where he dipped below an A+. When he came out with the "Hippie…

— Jay Mohr

A man who has once looked with the archaeological eye will never see quite normally. He will be wounded by what other…

— Loren Eiseley

I've travelled all around the world to see the rivers and the mountains, and I've spent a lot of money. I have…

— Rabindranath Tagore

I see the rainbow in the sky, the dew upon the grass; I see them, and I ask not why they glimmer…

— Walter Savage Landor

“we're all doctors trading sadness for numbness grass looks much greener but it's green-painted cement the mayor's machines are there cleaning the…

— Modest Mouse

We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new…

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Starlight and comet tails burned the tips of endless grass below into hammered silver. Like thousands of tapers in the chapel, just…

— Gregory Maguire

I have a little tradition that humbles me as a man that lets me know I'm a part of the field and…

— Les Miles

Men swagger around calling themselves "cattlemen" but abuse their grass like a rapist. And abuse their cattle with concrete fecal feedlots without…

— Joel Salatin

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were…

— Eudora Welty

The gentle rain which waters my beans and keeps me in the house today is not drear and melancholy, but good for…

— Henry David Thoreau

But carbon 13 [the carbon from corn] doesn't lie, and researchers who have compared the isotopes in the flesh or hair of…

— Michael Pollan

It is not easy for a man to be as great as a mountain or a forest. But that is why the…

— Kent Nerburn

The capacity of the mind is broad and huge, like the vast sky. Do not sit with a mind fixed on emptiness.…

— Huineng

In its most primitive form, life is, therefore, no longer bound to the cell, the cell which possesses structure and which can…

— Martinus Beijerinck

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars, And the pismire is equally perfect, and…

— Walt Whitman

How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'Green'?

— Stan Brakhage

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

— Andrew Vachss

But in my heart I knew that just like the new grass, I wasn't strong enough yet to be walked on

— Wendelin Van Draanen

If the grass is greener on the other side watch out, there must be a septic tank!

— Anonymous

The grass is greener on the other side because of all the shit being used as fertilizer.

— Anonymous

Sometimes the grass will appear greener on the other side becoz it has been fertilized by bullshit!

— Anonymous

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

— Oscar Wilde

I am the animal at the head of the pack. … I either get eaten, or I get the good grass.

— David Tepper