Blades Of Grass Quotes - Page 3

• HELPED are those who lose their fear of death; theirs is the power to envision the future in a blade of grass.

  Alice Walker

  Fear Of Death, Blades, Grass

  Alice Walker (2013). “We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness”, p.91, The New Press

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• What the ordinary person means by a 'miracle' is some gross distortion or suspension of the laws of nature... but life itself strikes him as commonplace, when in truth a blade of grass or a neuron in the brain is a greater miracle.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Mean, Law, Miracle

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• I am a product of endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them. There were books in the study, books in the drawing room, books in the cloakroom, books (two deep) in the great bookcase on the landing, books in a bedroom, books piled as high as my shoulder in the cistern attic...In the seemingly endless rainy afternoons I took volume after volume from the shelves. I had always the same certainty of finding a book that was new to me as a man who walks into a field has of finding a new blade of grass.

  C. S. Lewis

  Father, Book, Men

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• Dirt rolls from his palm, Blades of grass Tumble from his hair.

  Gary Soto

  Nature, Hair, Dirt

  Gary Soto (1992). “Neighborhood Odes”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Wall, Army, Attachment

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• If you study Japanese art you see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time how? In studying the distance between the earth and the moon? No. In studying the policy of Bismarck? No. He studies a single blade of grass. But this blade of grass leads him to draw every plant and then the seasons, the wide aspects of the countryside, then animals, then the human figure. So he passes his life, and life is too short to do the whole.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Wise, Art, Distance

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• Dear Lord, our God and Saviour! for Thy gifts
  The world were poor in thanks, though every soul
  Were to do nought but breathe them, every blade
  Of grass, and every atomie of earth
  To utter it like dew.

  Philip James Bailey

  God, Dear Lord, Soul

  Philip James Bailey (1845). “Festus: A Poem”, p.406

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• We're just blades of grass, and when we go, we go, we never come back; one life . . . maybe that's true. But I tend to believe that this is not all there is. Because my life has been like a shadow of something deeper. And I've experienced that many times.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Believe, Shadow, Deeper

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• The virtue of making two blades of grass grow where only one grew before does not begin to be superhuman.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Two, Doe, Virtue

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Maine Woods: The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume III (of 20)”, p.88, Trajectory Inc

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• The person who knows a great deal about things but has never learnt to see, tends to be assertive; those who have once lost their hearts to a blade of grass or a glowworm and sensed God's omnipresence within them are at least on the road to reverence.

  Gerald Vann

  Heart, Blades, Grass

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• Your parents' views are, by current standards, out there. Getting in their faces about it would be needlessly disrespectful, but there's no reason for you to tiptoe through their delusional little terrarium as if you can't bend even one blade of grass.

  Carolyn Hax

  Views, Parent, Littles

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• The essence of every form is the deathless. Even the essence of a blade of grass is the deathless. And that's why the world of form is sacred.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Essence, World, Sacred

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• Economic progress means the discovery and application of better ways of doing things to satisfy our wants. The piping of water to a household that previously dragged it from a well, the growing of two blades of grass where one grew before, the development of a power loom that enables one man to weave ten times as much as he could before, the use of steam power and electric power instead of horse or human power - all these things clearly represent economic progress.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Horse, Mean, Men

  "Principles of Economic Policy". Book by Kenneth Ewart Boulding, p. 23, 1958.

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• Everything dies, from the smallest blade of grass to the biggest galaxy.

  Stephen R. Donaldson

  Blades, Grass, Smallest

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• It is true there is a scent in the desert, though there may be no flower or tree or blade of grass within miles. It is the essence of the untrodden, untarnished earth herself!

  Rosita Forbes

  Flower, Essence, Tree

  Rosita Forbes (1921). “The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara”

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• Travelers describe a tree in the island of Java whose pestiferous exhalations blight every tiny blade of grass within the compass of its shade. So it is with despotism.

  Giovanni Ruffini

  Islands, Tree, Java

  Giovanni Ruffini (1857). “Doctor Antonio: a tale of Italy”, p.295

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• That which interests me above all else is the calligraphy of a tree or the tiles of a roof, and I mean leaf by leaf, branch by branch, blade by blade of grass.

  Joan Miro

  Mean, Tree, Branches

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• Watching the way the current moves a blade of grass - sometimes I've seen that happen and it has just turned me inside out.

  Minor White

  Moving, Way, Sometimes

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• The most valuable lesson man has learned from his dog is to kick a few blades of grass over it and move on.

  Robert Breault

  Wise, Dog, Moving

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• In the neuter austerity of that terrain all phenomena were bequeathed a strange equality and no one thing nor spider nor stone nor blade of grass could put forth claim to precedence. The very clarity of these articles belied their familiarity, for the eye predicates the whole on some feature or part and here was nothing more luminous than another and nothing more enshadowed and in the optical democracy of such landscapes all preference is made whimsical and a man and a rock become endowed with unguessed kinship.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Eye, Men, Rocks

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West”, p.258, Vintage

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• Poirot said placidly, “One does not, you know, employ merely the muscles. I do not need to bend and measure the footprints and pick up the cigarette ends and examine the bent blades of grass. It is enough for me to sit back in my chair and think. It is this – ” he tapped his egg-shaped head – “this, that functions!

  Agatha Christie

  Thinking, Eggs, Doe

  Agatha Christie (2010). “Five Little Pigs (Poirot)”, p.11, HarperCollins UK

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• Insects were scurrying about in the shade cast by the grass, and the lawn was a huge monotonous forest of thousands of little green blades, all equal, all alike, hiding the world from each other. Anguished, she thought, "I don't want to be just another blade of grass."

  Simone de Beauvoir

  World, Green, Want

  "All Men are Mortal". Book by Simone de Beauvoir, 1946.

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• I am a product [...of] endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them.... I had always the same certainty of finding a book that was new to me as a man who walks into a field has of finding a new blade of grass.

  C. S. Lewis

  Father, Book, Men

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• Let us keep a firm grip upon our money, for without it the whole assembly of virtues are but as blades of grass.

  Bhartrhari

  Money, Virtue, Blades

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• Wilderness is an anchor to windward. Knowing it is there, we can also know that we are still a rich nation, tending our resources as we should - not a people in despair searching every last nook and cranny of our land for a board of lumber, a barrel of oil, a blade of grass, or a tank of water.

  Clinton Presba Anderson

  Oil, Knowing, Anchors

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