Grass Quotes

• 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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• How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green!

  William Shakespeare

  Looks, Green, Gonzalo From Tempest

  William Shakespeare (1858). “Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems”

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• Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

  Hal Borland

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  "Countryman: A Summary of Belief". Book by Hal Borland, 1965.

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  If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.

  Cher

  Love, Motivational, Soulmate

  "The Times" Newspaper, May 20, 1998.

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• I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.

  Boris Pasternak

  Simple, Speak, Assembly

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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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• Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.

  Andy Rooney

  Funny, Golf, Watches

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• Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.

  Paul Samuelson

  Money, Vegas, Saving

  "Paul Samuelson's Words of Wisdom" by Larry Swedroe, www.cbsnews.com. December 17, 2009.

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• Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Funny, Family, Sister

  Peanuts (comic strip), 17 June 1961

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• What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.

  Bill Shankly

  Soccer, Football, Great Day

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• We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.

  Alexander Smith

  Forgetful, Grows, Over It

  Alexander Smith (1909). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Smith”

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• Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

  John Steinbeck

  Change, Men, Wind

  John Steinbeck (2008). “Sweet Thursday”, p.57, Penguin

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  We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

  Mother Teresa

  God, Nature, Stars

  1975 A Gift for God,'Willing Slaves to theWill of God'.

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• That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

  William Wordsworth

  Strength, Sympathy, Time

  William Wordsworth, “Ode On Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood”

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• 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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• Every blade of grass has its Angel that bends over it and whispers, "Grow, grow." - The Talmud

  Sapphire

  Angel, Blades, Grows

  Sapphire (1996). “Push: A Novel”, Vintage

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• You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.

  Ilya Ehrenburg

  Break Through, Environmental, Earth

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• I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Horse, Envy, Sick

  Sherwood Anderson (1953). “Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout”

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• I can't sit on grass without a blanket.

  Tia Carrere

  Blanket, I Can

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You may have heard that back in the States there are some people who are smoking grass. I don't know how you feel, but it's sure easier than cutting the stuff.

  Pat Morita

  Cutting, People, Smoking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If grass were legalized, it would help our drug problem enormously.

  Ken Kesey

  Drug, Literature, Helping

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• Actually I ran away from school when I was 13. No one could find me, and the police were called. I was just hiding in a little thicket of grass at my school, and went to sleep.

  Zhang Ziyi

  School, Sleep, Police

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• I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.

  Bill Lee

  Change, Baseball, Beer

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• The dirt was OK, but once you hit the grass... Wet grass is slippery

  Greg Maddux

  Sports, Dirt, Wet

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• Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?

  Alan Bennett

  Children

  Alan Bennett (2008). “Alan Bennett Plays 1: Forty Years On, Getting On, Habeas Corpus and Enjoy”, p.63, Faber & Faber

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