Grass Quotes
1103 Grass quotes by 802 unique authors
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Still, I look down, and the grass is so green, I cannot understand how it does not wither and die with sorrow. But against the…
— Lisa Ann Sandell
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But carbon 13 [the carbon from corn] doesn't lie, and researchers who have compared the isotopes in the flesh or hair of Americans to those…
— Michael Pollan
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I'll wager at the end a body realizes the Lord has already shown Himself. That things as they are -- her hand circles in a…
— Truman Capote
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It was an overcast late November morning, the grass splintered by hoarfrost, and winter grinning through the gaps in the clouds like a bad clown…
— John Connolly
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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…
— Karen White
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And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot…
— Jonathan Swift
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There is a place where the sidewalk ends, And before the street begins, And there the grass grows soft and white, And there the sun…
— Shel Silverstein
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The monstropolous beast had left his bed. The two hundred miles a hour wind had loosed his chains. He seized hold of his dikes and…
— Zora Neale Hurston
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She tells her love while half asleep, In the dark hours, With half-words whispered low: As Earth stirs in her winter sleep And puts out…
— Robert Graves
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The front door flew open, and Mary shot out of the house, jumping off the porch, not even bothering with the steps to the ground.…
— J R Ward
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What idiocy, to racing into this story and its labyrinths, sprinting away from our happiness among the fresh spring grasses by the oak.
— Ian Mcewan
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The Santa Anas blew in hot from the desert, shriveling the last of the spring grass into whiskers of pale straw. Only the oleanders thrived,…
— Janet Fitch
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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen, just as one cannot see grass growing. Wars and revolutions, kings and Robespierres, are history's organic…
— Boris Pasternak
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Without thinking, I knelt in the grass, like someone meaning to pray. When I tried to stand again, I couldn't move, my legs were utterly…
— Louise Glück
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If you have your attention on what is see its fullness in every moment you will discover the dance of the divine in every leaf…
— Deepak Chopra
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And that was as far as he got before i heard it. The thumping of footsteps, running up the lawn toward me: It seemed like…
— Sarah Dessen
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Everything we knew condemned us, and our questioning condemned us most of all. Knowledge was the way of our people, and knowledge was dangerous. It…
— Alice Hoffman
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Her voice, high and clear, moved through the leaves, through the sunlight. It splashed onto the gravel, the grass. He imagined the notes falling into…
— Kim Edwards
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A narrow pond would form in the orchard, water clear as air covering grass and black leaves and fallen branches, all around it black leaves…
— Marilynne Robinson
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How do you caution a fawn about a cigarette a motorist has just flipped from his car window into a patch of yellow grass, or…
— James Lee Burke
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There is no dusk to be, There is no dawn that was, Only there's now, and now, And the wind in the grass.
— Archibald MacLeish
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Sudden Light I have been here before, But when or how I cannot tell: I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell,…
— Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should be blessed if…
— Henry David Thoreau
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There are songs that come free from the blue-eyed grass, from the dust of a thousand country roads. This is one of them.
— Robert James Waller
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Hooves clomping over the whitewashed planks, Doren sprinted along the boardwalk after Rondus, a portly satyr with butterscotch fur and horns that curved away from…
— Brandon Mull
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