Grass Quotes - Page 26

• You have a life and there are these volumes on either side that go unvisited; some day soon as the world winds he will lie beneath what he now stands on, dead as those insects whose sound he no longer hears, and the grass will go on growing, wild and blind.

  John Updike

  Lying, Wind, Sides

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit Is Rich”, p.313, Random House

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

  Stephen R. Donaldson

  Blades, Smallest, Galaxy

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• A falcon hovers at the edge of the sky.Two gulls drift slowly up the river.Vulnerable while they ride the wind,they coast and glide with ease.Dew is heavy on the grass below,the spider's web is ready.Heaven's ways include the human:among a thousand sorrows, I stand alone.

  Du Fu

  Wind, Sky, Two

  Du Fu, “I Stand Alone”

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• I'm not here to say I don't eat vegetables - I do, a lot of them - but, from a soil perspective, they're actually more costly than a cow grazing on grass.

  Dan Barber

  Vegetables, Perspective, Cows

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• You came to tell us that the great cities are in favour of the gold standard; we reply that the great cities rest upon our broad and fertile plains. Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic. But destroy out farms and the grass will grow in the city...You shall not press down upon the brow of labour this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Spring, Cities, Magic

  Speech at the Democratic National Convention, Chicago, 1896, in 'The First Battle. A Story of the Campaign of 1896' (1896) vol. 1, ch. 10

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• He sprang from the grass roots of the country clubs of America.

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth

  Country, Government, Roots

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• I'm a millionaire, but I cut the grass. And each time I cut it, it's my grass. And that is satisfying.

  Chuck Berry

  Cutting, Millionaire, Satisfying

  "Everyone Loves You When You're Dead: Journeys into Fame and Madness". Book by Neil Strauss, March 15, 2011.

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• My wife Ann and I had been digging during the day, transplanting lilies from the front of this abandoned farmhouse back down the road to where we live. We finished. She was tired and laid in the grass. I took a picture. The house is now gone. The walnut trees have been bulldozed and burned. I saw this picture the other day for the first time in years and realized how photographing life within a hundred yards of my front porch had helped me focus on everything I cared about.

  Larry Towell

  Tired, Years, Wife

  "10 Photographers Share ‘An Image That Changed Everything’ And The Stories Behind Them" by Priscilla Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.

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• Countless candles dribbled with hot wax, and their flames, like little flags, fluttered in the unchartered currents of air. Thousands of lamps, naked, or shuttered behind coloured glass, burned with their glows of purple, amber, grass-green, blue, blood red and even grey. The walls of Gormenghast were like the walls of paradise or like the walls of an inferno. The colours were devilish or angelical according to the colour of the mind that watched them. They swam, those walls, with the hues of hell, with the tints of Zion. The breasts of the plumaged seraphim; the scales of Satan.

  Mervyn Peake

  Wall, Purple, Glasses

  Mervyn Peake (2007). “Gormenghast”, p.226, The Overlook Press

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• My fingers curl through the holes in the wicker, through the wet grass beneath it, trying to hold tight to the sharp blades of the present. Somewhere in my brain a sinkhole is bubbling over, and each bubble contains a scene from a tiny sunken world ... I have never been the prophet of my own past before. It makes me wonder how the healthy dreamers can bear to sleep at all, if sleep means that you have to peer into that sinkhole by yourself. ... I had almost forgotten this occipital sorrow, the way you are so alone with the things you see in dreams.

  Karen Russell

  Dream, Mean, Sleep

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• And so the seasons went rolling on into summer, as one rambles into higher and higher grass.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Rolling, Higher

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.185, Simon and Schuster

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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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• I was sitting in Arizona when I received Dogs on Cape Cod. Seeing the joy these dogs had playing on the beaches and in the marsh grasses on the Cape carried me back to my family visits in Harwich. The dogs are so full of life, it just made me smile.

  Betsy King

  Dog, Beach, Joy

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• Playing from deep grass is a fact of life in professional golf.

  Ernie Els

  Golf, Facts, Facts Of Life

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• Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible.

  Jill Lepore

  Roots, Century, Made

  "Wall Street Protests: Cash-Roots" by Jill Lepore, www.newyorker.com. October 6, 2011.

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• The walls are white, the track is grey, the grass is green, and the sky is blue...your job is to keep them all where they belong.

  Johnny Rutherford

  Jobs, Wall, White

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• How do you expect the Germans to revolt when they don't even dare walk on the grass?

  Joseph Stalin

  Travel, Home, Dare

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• Running around in the grass near an unsecured structure and a bunch of trees is a good way of taking yourself out of the gene pool.

  Mira Grant

  Running, Tree, Way

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• In an ancient and dead language, any recognition of living nature attracts us. These are such sentences as were written while grass grew and water ran. It is no small recommendation when a book will stand the test of mere unobstructed sunshine and daylight.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Sunshine, Water

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.80, Delphi Classics

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• In New England they once thought blackbirds useless, and mischievous to the corn. They made efforts to destroy them. The consequence was, the blackbirds were diminished; but a kind of worm, which devoured their grass, and which the blackbirds used to feed on, increased prodigiously; then, finding their loss in grass much greater than their saving in corn, they wished again for their blackbirds.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Loss, Effort, Useless

  Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson (2003). “A Benjamin Franklin Reader”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• Wherever the Turkish hoof trods, no grass grows.

  Victor Hugo

  Turkish, Grows, Miscellaneous

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• A narrow Fellow in the Grass
  Occasionally rides

  Emily Dickinson

  Fellows

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “Emily Dickinson”, p.14, Moondance Press

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• The dandelion's pallid tube
  Astonishes the grass,
  And winter instantly becomes
  An infinite alas.

  Emily Dickinson

  Winter, Dandelions, Infinite

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.1368, Harvard University Press

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• Walk in this faithless grass with studious tread,
  Lest mice, weasels, germane beasts, too soon
  The tall hat and eyes, the fierce feet, for dead
  Descry, and fix you prone in their revelling moon.

  Allen Tate

  Eye, Moon, Feet

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.91, Macmillan

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• Take a woman talking,
  purging herself with rhymes,
  drumming words out like a typewriter,
  planting words in you like grass seed.
  You'll move off.

  Anne Sexton

  Women, Moving, Typewriters

  Anne Sexton (2001). “Transformations”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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