Grasshoppers Quotes
40 quotes by 38 authors
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In 1847 I gave an address at Newton, Mass., before a Teachers' Institute conducted by Horace Mann. My subject was grasshoppers. I passed around a…
— Louis Agassiz
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"Patience, grasshopper," I counseled. "You don't want to seem overeager." "Right, that's why I said tomorrow," he said. "I want to see you again tonight.…
— John Green
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(The Palestinians) would be crushed like grasshoppers ... heads smashed against the boulders and walls.
— Yitzhak Shamir
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How narrow is the vision that exalts the busyness of the ant above the singing of the grasshopper.
— Khalil Gibran
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The continuation that obeys only obvious stack semantics, O grasshopper, is not the true continuation.
— Guy Steele
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Who's Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshopper? The Lion or the Mouse? Poppy or the Snake?
— Toni Morrison
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One hundred trout are needed to support one man for a year. The trout, in turn, must consume 90,000 frogs, that must consume 27 million…
— G. Tyler Miller
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The more innocuous the name of a weapon, the more hideous its impact. Some of the most horrific weapons of the Vietnam era were named…
— Paul Dickson
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Lyric night of the lingering Indian Summer, Shadowy fields that are scentless but full of singing, Never a bird, but the passionless chant of insects,…
— Sara Teasdale
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Summer is a prodigal of joy. The grass Swarms with delighted insects as I pass, And crowds of grasshoppers at every stride Jump out all…
— John Clare
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To me, there's no better symbol for the world than a grasshopper lying dead on a gravel road, and maybe there's a globe lying next…
— Jack Handey
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Peter Hyland's poems are both elegantly wrought and meditatively wild. They testify to an original, restless intelligence. He can cast his imagination into a woman's…
— Tony Hoagland
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Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow…
— Edmund Burke
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Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race,…
— Alexander Pope
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The leaves did not stir on the trees, grasshoppers chirruped, and the monotonous hollow sound of the sea rising up from below, spoke of the…
— Anton Chekhov
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When a man makes alliance with the Almighty, giants look like grasshoppers.
— Vance Havner
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Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that…
— Augusto Roa Bastos
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I have got instincts that, I think, are very much in tune with people's very keen sense to see something different. I did not dream…
— Nick Clegg
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Green little vaulter, in the sunny grass, Catching your heart up at the feel of June, Sole noise that's heard amidst the lazy noon, When…
— Leigh Hunt
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Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning's gentle wine! Nature waits upon thee still, And…
— Abraham Cowley
Who Wrote These Grasshoppers Quotes
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