Grass Quotes - Page 3

• Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.

  Rupert Brooke

  Summer, Nature, Laughter

  Cambridge Review 8 Dec. 1910, "Sonnet"

  88 Copy quote

  Show source

• The fulness of the godhead dwelt in every blade of grass.

  Elias Hicks

  Blades, Blades Of Grass

  8 Copy quote

• To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

  Thomas Carlyle

  God, Stars, Eye

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.97, Lulu.com

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.

  Eudora Welty

  Appreciation, Book, Writing

  One Writer's Beginnings ch. 1 (1983)

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Color, Imagination, Used

  10 Copy quote

• I asked the waiter, 'Is this milk fresh?' He said, 'Lady, three hours ago it was grass.'

  Phyllis Diller

  Food, Three, Milk

  14 Copy quote

• Life had been a suit I'd only put on for special occasions. Most of the time I kept it in the back of my closet, forgetting it was there. We were meant to die when it was barely stitched anymore, when the elbows and knees were stained with grass and mud, shoulder pads uneven from people hugging you all the time, downpours and blistering sun, the fabric faded, buttons gone.

  Marisha Pessl

  People, Hug, Special

  4 Copy quote

• The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Running, Nature, Flower

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.38, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

  32 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  72 Copy quote

  Show source

• Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work. I am the grass. I cover all.

  Carl Sandburg

  Work, Body, Plant

  "Grass" l. 1 (1918)

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Country, Spring, Cities

  Democratic National Convention Address, originally delivered 8 July 1896 and later recorded in studio

  39 Copy quote

  Show source

• He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass.

  Ben Hecht

  Summer, Love Life, June

  8 Copy quote

• We say of the oak, How grand of girth! Of the willow we say, How slender! And yet to the soft grass clothing the earth How slight is the praise we render.

  Edgar Fawcett

  Earth, Praise, Slender

  Edgar Fawcett (1891). “Songs of Doubt and Dream (poems)”

  59 Copy quote

  Show source

• I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your bootsoles.

  Walt Whitman

  Looks, Want, Dirt

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.83, NYU Press

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• The grass is always greener over the septic tank.

  Erma Bombeck

  Tanks, Grass Is Greener On The Other Side, Grass Is Always Greener

  Erma Bombeck (2014). “Es darf auch mal Champagner sein”, p.2, Edel:Books

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• Grass grows at last above all graves.

  Julia Caroline Dorr

  Hope, Grief, Lasts

  Julia Caroline Ripley Dorr (1879). “Friar Anselmo: And Other Poems”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.

  Walt Whitman

  Nature, Children, Hands

  'Song of Myself' (1855) st. 6

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• The sun's champagne streamed from one body into another. And there was a couple on the green silk of the grass, covered by a raspberry umbrella. Only their feet and a little bit of lace could be seen. In the magnificent universe beneath the raspberry umbrella, with closed eyes, they drank in the sparkling madness. 'Extra! Extra! Zeppelins over the North Sea at 3 o'clock.' But under the umbrella, in the raspberry universe, they were immortal. What did it matter that in another far-away universe people would be killing each other?

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Couple, Eye, Sea

  8 Copy quote

• It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

  Muhammad Ali

  Funny, Sports, Jobs

  Twitter post from Aug 18, 2010

  157 Copy quote

  Show source

• From our broadcasting box you can't see any grass at all. It is simply a carpet of humanity.

  Richie Benaud

  Inspirational Sports, Humanity, Broadcasting

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

  22 Copy quote

  Show source

• If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

  George Eliot

  Heart, Squirrels, History

  "Middlemarch". Volume 1,

  38 Copy quote

  Show source

• All Nature bristles with the marks of interrogation-among the grass and the petals of flowers, amidst the feathers of birds and the hairs of mammals, on mountain and moorland, in sea and sky-everywhere. It is one of the joys of life to discover those marks of interrogation, these unsolved and half-solved problems and try to answer their questions.

  J. Arthur Thomson

  Life, Nature, Flower

  53 Copy quote

• 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 grasshoppers that live off of 1,000 tons of grass.

  G. Tyler Miller

  Science, Men, Years

  41 Copy quote

• Look at those animals and remember the greatest scientists in the world have never discovered how to make grass into milk.

  Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin

  Science, Animal, Discovery

  14 Copy quote

• The green grass floweth like a stream
  Into the oceans's blue.

  James Russell Lowell

  Ocean, Blue, Green

  James Russell Lowell, “The Sirens”

  17 Copy quote

  Show source