I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
"Patience, grasshopper," I counseled. "You don't want to seem overeager." "Right, that's why I said tomorrow," he said. "I want to see… — John Green Copy Share Image
Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
The water in music the oar forsakes. The air in music the wing forsakes. All things in move in music and write… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The more innocuous the name of a weapon, the more hideous its impact. Some of the most horrific weapons of the Vietnam… — Paul Dickson Copy Share Image
Twere better far That gods should quaff their nectar merrily, And men sing out the day like grasshoppers, So may they haply… — Hartley Coleridge Copy Share Image
Too often, the pastoralist blames the weeds and seeks a chemical rather than a management solution; too seldom do we find an… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And talking about dark! You think dark is just one color, but it ain't. There're five or six kinds of black. Some… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The poetry of earth is never dead When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide I cooling trees,… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I miss the grasshoppers much, but suppose it is all for the best. I should become too much attached to a trotting… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Crowds of bees are giddy with clover Crowds of grasshoppers skip at our feet, Crowds of larks at their matins hang over,… — Jean Ingelow Copy Share Image
Please do not take counsel of women who are so prejudiced that, as I once heard said, they would not allow a… — Frances E. Willard Copy Share Image
I give you five minutes to spare your blushes. here is the little bronze key that opens the ebony caskets on the… — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Growth, growth, growth -- that's all we've known . . . World automobile production is doubling every 10 years; human population growth… — M. King Hubbert Copy Share Image
Peter Hyland's poems are both elegantly wrought and meditatively wild. They testify to an original, restless intelligence. He can cast his imagination… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
In 1847 I gave an address at Newton, Mass., before a Teachers' Institute conducted by Horace Mann. My subject was grasshoppers. I… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
Feeling well that breathed words Would all be lost, unheard, and vain as swords Against the enchased crocodile, or leaps Of grasshoppers… — John Keats Copy Share Image
(The Palestinians) would be crushed like grasshoppers ... heads smashed against the boulders and walls. — Yitzhak Shamir Copy Share Image
The more innocuous the name of a weapon, the more hideous its impact. Some of the most horrific weapons of the Vietnam… — Paul Dickson Copy Share Image
