Grass Quotes

1103 Grass quotes by 802 unique authors

Downtime is where we become ourselves, looking into the middle distance, kicking at the curb, lying on the grass or sitting on the stoop and… — Anna Quindlen
Oh, my fellow men, do not defile your bodies with sinful foods. We have corn, we have apples bending down the branches with their weight,… — Pythagoras
Jacob wrote that the true poet 'is like a man who is happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he is allowed to look at leaves… — Jacob Grimm
There was no more grass, no flowers, not even any moss: dusty granite blocks covered the ice and an occasional grinding groan reminded us that… — Chris Bonington
Candleford Green was but a small village and there were fields and meadows and woods all around it. As soon as Laura crossed the doorstep,… — Flora Thompson
Never had the sky been more studded with stars and more charming, the trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more penetrating; never had… — Victor Hugo
My birthplace was California, but I couldn't forget Armenia, so what is one's country? Is it land of the earth, in a specific place? Rivers… — William Saroyan
For hours she had lain in a kind of gentle torpor, not unlike that sweet lassitude which masters one in the hush of a midsummer… — Edith Wharton
The dawn came - not the flaming sky that promises storm, but a golden dawn of infinite promise. The birds came flying up out of… — Elizabeth Goudge
Mr. Jamrach led me through the lobby and into the menagerie. The first was a parrot room, a fearsome screaming place of mad round eyes,… — Carol Birch
Once I spent a whole day there, a blade of grass in each hand to anchor me to the warm earth. I watched the sun… — Emma Donoghue
Water, wind and birdsong were the echoes in this quiet place of a great chiming symphony that was surging around the world. Knee-deep in grasses… — Elizabeth Goudge
When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth — Chinua Achebe
It is very hard for me to switch from clay to grass. — Marat Safin
We will burn the old grass and the new will grow. — Pol Pot
Modern Western thought will pass into history and be incorporated in it, will have its influence and its place, just as our body will pass… — Alexander Herzen
I found every breath of air, and every scent, and every flower and leaf and blade of grass and every passing cloud, and everything in… — Charles Dickens
There, where I have passed, the grass will never grow gain. — Attila the Hun
Now everything was changed. She walked about with cautious, anxious steps, staring constantly at the ground, on the lookout for things that crept and crawled.… — Tove Jansson
The fulness of the godhead dwelt in every blade of grass. — Elias Hicks
Let the children be free; encourage them; let them run outside when it is raining; let them remove their shoes when they find a puddle… — Maria Montessori
I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows. — Jilly Cooper
The legendary tumbleweed is really a nurse crop that protects the growth of prairie grasses under its shade, and then sacrifices itself and blows away. — Antoine Predock
Give a bull grass, sweet water and a willing heifer and he is happy. But a man is never content. If no gadflies of worry… — Alison Fell
The most valuable lesson man has learned from his dog is to kick a few blades of grass over it and move on. — Robert Breault

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