Grass Quotes
1103 Grass quotes by 802 unique authors
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I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly through fractions to decimals. I eventually arrived at the point where so many cows ate…
— Agatha Christie
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Look, lovers: almost separately they come towards us through the flowery grass and slowly; parting's so far from thought of, they indulge the extravagance of…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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All things such as grass and trees are soft and supple in life. At their death they are withered and dry.
— Laozi
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Natural grass is a wonderful thing for little bugs and sinkerball pitchers.
— Dan Quisenberry
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Details of the many walks I made along the crest have blurred, now, into a pleasing tapestry of grass and space and sunlight.
— Colin Fletcher
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I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that grew high as…
— Pierre Loti
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Passion is lifted from the earth itself by the muddy hands of the young; it travels along grass-stained sleeves to the heart. If we are…
— Richard Louv
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A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.
— Matsuo Basho
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The air was cold to the lungs, the long grass dripping wet, and the herbs on it gave out their spiced astringent scent. In a…
— Isak Dinesen
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Humans are animals and like all animals we leave tracks as we walk: signs of passage made in snow, sand, mud, grass, dew, earth or…
— Robert Macfarlane
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We(Pakistan) will eat grass, even go hungry, but we will get one of our own (Atom bomb).... We have no other choice!
— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
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Network marketing is really the greatest source of grass-roots capitalism, because it teaches people how to take a small bit of capital, that is your…
— Jim Rohn
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Infidelity gives nothing in return for what it takes away. What, then, is it worth? Everything valuable as a compensating power. Not a blade of…
— Thomas Chalmers
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To be just without being mad (and the madder you get the madder you get), to be peaceful without being stupid, to be interested without…
— Ken Kesey
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I like to take a puff or two before going on the air. I still get stage fright when I have to perform. A little…
— Bob Denver
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
— Alan Bennett
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I've travelled all around the world to see the rivers and the mountains, and I've spent a lot of money. I have gone to great…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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From the grasses in the field to the stars in the sky, each one is doing just that; and there is such profound peace and…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Yet what each one does is by no means of little moment. The grass has to put forth all its energy to draw sustenance from…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Concrete is heavy; iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.
— Edward Abbey
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The executives who run the fast food industry are not bad men. They are businessmen. They will sell free-range, organic, grass-fed hamburgers if you demand…
— Eric Schlosser
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When it comes to your marriage, if the grass looks greener somewhere else, it's time to water your own yard!
— Craig Groeschel
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It is the retention by twentieth-century, Atom-Age men of the Neolithic point of view that says: You stay in your village and I will stay…
— Carleton S. Coon
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We are here for what amounts to a few/hours,/a day at most./We feel around making sense of the terrain,/our own new limbs,/Bumping up against a…
— Tracy K. Smith
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When life begins we are tender and weak When life ends we are stiff and rigid All things, including the grass and trees, are soft…
— Laozi
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