Greener On The Other Side Quotes

• The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. No, not at all. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.

  Robert Fulghum

  Water, Care, Grass Is Greener On The Other Side

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It”, p.160, Ivy Books

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• If the grass looks greener on the other side, it is probably astroturf.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Encouragement, Looks, Grass Is Greener On The Other Side

  Twitter post from Apr 03, 2013

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• The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. The grass is greenest where it is watered.

  Robert Fulghum

  Grass Is Greener On The Other Side, Sides, Fence

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• Even if you think the grass is greener on the other side, you’re going to have to mow that side too.

  Joyce Meyer

  Thinking, Grass Is Greener On The Other Side, Sides

  Twitter post from Sep 19, 2012

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• It's not that the grass is greener on the other side, it's that you can never be on both sides of the lawn at the same time.

  Laura Fraser

  Grass Is Greener On The Other Side, Sides, Lawns

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• If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher.

  Debbie Macomber

  Envy, Water, Grass Is Greener On The Other Side

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• And I'd like to give my love to everybody, and let them know that the grass may look greener on the other side, but believe me, it's just as hard to cut.

  Little Richard

  Fake People, Believe, Cutting

  FaceBook post by Little Richard from Jan 03, 2016

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• If the grass is greener on the other side it`s probably getting better care. Success is a matter of sticking to a set of common sense principles anyone can master.

  Earl Nightingale

  Common Sense, Get Better, Principles

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• You know how they say the grass is always greener on the other side? It is greener, because you're not there. And if you go you'll trample it and leave dirty footprints and probably spill something poisonous.

  Ekaterina Sedia

  Dirty, Sides, Footprint

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• Love dies in many different ways, and it's natural for the grass to seem greener on the other side. But it's not a competition; there's plenty of pain to go around.

  Rob Sheffield

  Pain, Competition, Different

  Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time”, Crown

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• If dragons were common, and you could look at one in the zoo - but zebras were a rare legendary creature that had finally been decided to be mythical - then there's a certain sort of person who would ignore dragons, who would never bother to look at dragons, and chase after rumors of zebras. The grass is always greener on the other side of reality. Which is rather setting ourselves up for eternal disappointment, eh? If we cannot take joy in the merely real, our lives shall be empty indeed.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Zoos, Zebras, Disappointment

  "Joy in the Merely Real". Summary of the Joy In The Merely Real sequence, wiki.lesswrong.com. October 2009.

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• The grass isn't always greener on the other side!

  Ricky Gervais

  Grass Is Greener On The Other Side, Sides, Grass Growing

  "Fictional character: David Brent". "The Office (TV Series) Motivation", www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• Perhaps passing through the gates of death is like passing quietly through the gate in a pasture fence. On the other side, you keep walking, without the need to look back. No shock, no drama, just the lifting of a plank or two in a simple wooden gate in a clearing. Neither pain, nor floods of light, nor great voices, but just the silent crossing of a meadow.

  Mark Helprin

  Death, Prayer, Pain

  Mark Helprin (1991). “A Soldier of the Great War”, Harcourt

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• But the grass ain't always greener on the other side, It's green where you water it

  Justin Bieber

  Water, Grass Is Greener On The Other Side, Sides

  Song: As Long As You Love Me Acoustic Version, Album: Believe Acoustic, 2013

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• The grass is not always greener on the other side. You learn to appreciate these people.

  Kevin Durant

  Inspirational, Basketball, Mvp

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• The grass isn't always greener on the other side. I start off kind of in love and then I leave love and I'm single.

  Miguel

  Sides, Kind, Grass

  Source: us.napster.com

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• 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, and roundly proclaim that Australia is, in fact, the other side of that fence.

  Douglas Adams

  Funny, Humor, Race

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• Of course the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. Why do you think the neighbors put up the fence?

  Teresa Bloomingdale

  Thinking, Grass Is Greener On The Other Side, Sides

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• Everybody thinks the grass is greener on the other side. If you talk to most artists, they think they can play something, you know, "If I had stayed playing football in high school, if I had been doing basketball..." Everybody's got their fantasies and thinks the grass is greener. It's not. It's not.

  Ice Cube

  Basketball, Football, School

  "Ice Cube: 'I don't shed any tears' for Donald Sterling". Interview with Michael Huang, www.espn.com. August 7, 2015.

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• The contract stuff just happens to be a coincidence to me. I always play every game as if my back is against the wall. That's always something that has been good to me since high school. A lot of people believe the grass is greener on the other side, but I'm not one of those people. It wouldn't be my choice to leave, but the Seahawks know that.

  Shaun Alexander

  Wall, Believe, School

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• I’ve talked to guys who have played for the Phillies and gone on to other organizations and the grass isn’t always greener on the other side.

  Chase Utley

  Organization, Guy, Gone

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• The grass is always greener on the other side, unless Vince Russo has been there in which case the grass is most likely dead.

  Jim Cornette

  Wrestling, Sides, Grass

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