Grass Quotes

1103 Grass quotes by 802 unique authors

Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects. — Oscar Wilde
Starlight and comet tails burned the tips of endless grass below into hammered silver. Like thousands of tapers in the chapel, just blown out but… — Gregory Maguire
We are a nation of sheep, and someone else owns the grass. — George Carlin
And there were other rocks that were like animals, creeping, horrible animals, putting out their tongues, and others were like words I could not say,… — Arthur Machen
Morning: Slept. Afternoon: Slept. Evening: Ate grass. Night: Ate grass. Decided grass is boring. Scratched. Hard to reach the itchy bits. Slept. — Jackie French
The god of dirt came up to me many times and said so many wise and delectable things, I lay on the grass listening to… — Mary Oliver
Human: That's stupid. Isn't there grass on both sides? — Orson Scott Card
Alone of all the races on earth, they seem to be free from the 'Grass is Greener on the other side of the fence' syndrome,… — Douglas Adams
Perhaps his gloom was due to his profession, that he lived among fallen empires, and in reading these languages that had not been spoken by… — Matthew Tobin Anderson
Through neglect, ignorance, or inability, the new intellectual Borgias cram hairballs down our throats and refuse us the convulsion that could make us well. They… — Ray Bradbury
Loafe with me on the grass—loose the stop from your throat; Not words, not music or rhyme I want—not custom or lecture, not even the… — Walt Whitman
The spring has sprung, the grass is rizz. I wonder where them birdies is? — A A Milne
The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the… — Rabindranath Tagore
After a few mouthfuls of moon-flavored air, even the stubbornly drowsy can find themselves wide-eyed.. All the normal noises of life were gone, leaving behind… — N.D. Wilson
The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. Daily prayers are delivered on the lips of breaking waves, the whisperings of grasses,… — Terry Tempest Williams
(Speaking of the Cistercian monks) A grim fraternity, passing grim lives in that sweet spot, that God had made so bright! Strange that Nature's voices… — Jerome K. Jerome
The same wind that uproots trees makes the grass shine. The lordly wind loves the weakness and the lowness of grasses. Never brag of being… — Unknown Author
Even if it means oblivion, friends, I'll welcome it, because it won't be nothing. We'll be alive again in a thousand blades of grass, and… — Philip Pullman
But isn't the knowledge that comes from experience more valuable than the knowledge that doesn't? It seems fairly obvious to some of us that a… — Benjamin Hoff
Clambering up the Cold Mountain path, The Cold Mountain trail goes on and on: The long gorge choked with scree and boulders, The wide creek,… — Gary Snyder
We were going to the long field which today looked like an ocean, although I had never seen an ocean; the grass was moving in… — Shirley Jackson
I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the… — Emily Bronte
Flailing and thrashing, Buttercup wept and tossed and paced and wept some more, and there have been three great cases of jealousy since David of… — William Goldman
When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree: Be the… — Christina Rossetti
Still, I look down, and the grass is so green, I cannot understand how it does not wither and die with sorrow. ~Song of the… — Lisa Ann Sandell

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