Grass Quotes - Page 31

• Blue grass was the outgrowth of Irish music. As a matter of fact a lot the tunes, a lot of the melodies and the jigs... have different names but are actually the same tunes.

  Keith Getty

  Blue, Names, Tunes

  "Composer/performer Keith Getty is celebrating an Irish Christmas at venues across the USA". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. December 5, 2014.

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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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• 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. Change may be announced by a small ache, so that you think you're catching cold. Or you may feel a faint disgust for something you loved yesterday. It may even take the form of a hunger that peanuts won't satisfy. Isn't overeating said to be one of the strongest symptoms of discontent. And isn't discontent the lever of change?

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Thinking, Yesterday

  John Steinbeck (2007). “Travels with Charley and Later Novels, 1947-1962”

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• I sleep equally well in a soft bed or on the grass beside the road. If I am given food and shelter, fine. If not, I'm just as happy. Many times I am given shelter by total strangers. When hospitality is not available there are always bus depots, railroad stations and all night truck stops.... When no shelter is available to me, I sleep in the fields or by the side of the road with God to guard me.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Sleep, Night, Sides

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• People have the most control over their affairs at the grass-roots level. Anything that can be fairly and efficiently handled at a grass-roots level should be thus handled, and only delegated to a higher authority when necessary.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Roots, People, Levels

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.102, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• I call myself a radical conservative. What's that? Well, let's analyze it. Go to the dictionary. Radical: One who gets to the roots of things. And I'm a conservative because I want to conserve the green of the grass, the potability of drinking water, the first amendment of the Constitution and whatever sanity we have left.

  Studs Terkel

  Drinking, Roots, Water

  "What I've Learned: Studs Terkel" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. November 6, 2008.

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• I was typing away while everybody was dropping acid and smoking grass. I was known as my own square.

  Anne Rice

  Dropping Acid, Squares, Smoking

  "Other Incarnations Of the Vampire Author". Interview with Stewart Kellerman, www.nytimes.com. November 7, 1988.

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• Many times, working is kind of like channeling, and I really don't know what's going to fall on the page. I just did this image of a fat girl and put her on a tiny mountain peak of grass that she's walking over. It just amused me.

  Gloria Vanderbilt

  Girl, Fall, Mountain Peaks

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• There are those who, attracted by grass, flowers, mountains, and waters, flow into the Buddha Way.

  Dogen

  Flower, Water, Mountain

  Dogen (2004). “Beyond Thinking: A Guide to Zen Meditation”, p.53, Shambhala Publications

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• The liveness in me just loves to feel the liveness in growing things, in grass and rain and leaves and flowers and sun and feathers and furs and earth and sand and moss.

  Emily Carr

  Rain, Flower, Moss

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.326, D & M Publishers

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• Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves.

  Matsuo Basho

  Fall, Rivers, Tree

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• Well, what do you owe yourself? Do you dare take time out to listen to the grass grow, or can you even afford the expense of getting far enough away from life's daily cacophony to hear it grow if you took the time?

  Vincent Price

  Cacophony, Enough, Dare

  Vincent Price (1959). “I like what I know: a visual autobiography”

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• John Fiedler's voice was kind of like the wind blowing through tall grass. It sounded homey and it sounded comforting.

  Jim Cummings

  Wind Blowing, Voice, Comforting

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• He who is too busy to pray will be too busy to live a holy life. Satan had rather we let the grass grow on the path to our prayer chamber than anything else.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Path, Praying

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.69, CCEL

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• I was very healthy from a young age. I was always known as the healthy kid in my group of friends. My mom had us drink barley-grass powder, and I've taken vitamins and fish oil and multivitamins since I was a kid. My mom just had me doing that for a long, long time. And I enjoy eating healthy. It's not a chore to me to eat healthy food.

  Blake Griffin

  Mom, Taken, Kids

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I love being married. I love my husband. I think married people always have that thing where they think that the grass is greener on the single side, but all my single friends are like, "Trust me, you don't want to have to actually interact with these people."

  Aisha Tyler

  Husband, Love Is, Thinking

  "Aisha Tyler Is a Woman Men Can't Help But Love". Interview with Paul Schrodt, www.esquire.com. May 28, 2014.

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• Have you noticed that all you need to grow healthy, vigorous grass is a crack in your sidewalk? Having a baby is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.

  Carol Burnett

  Baby, Over You, Healthy

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• The problem with the drone is it's like your lawn mower. You've got to mow the lawn all the time. The minute you stop mowing, the grass is going to grow back.

  Bruce Riedel

  Drones, Mowing, Problem

  "Plan for hunting terrorists signals U.S. intends to keep adding names to kill lists" by Greg Miller, www.washingtonpost.com. October 23, 2012.

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• Be humble as the blade of grass that is being trodden underneath the feet. The little ant tastes joyously the sweetness of honey and sugar. The mighty elephant trembles in pain under the agony of sharp goad

  Sivananda

  Pain, Humble, Agony

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• Artist Allen Crawford brings Whitman's undying text to new life in gorgeous hand-lettering and illustrations, transforming the 60-page poem originally published in 1855 as the centerpiece of Leaves of Grass into a breathtaking 256-page piece of art.

  Maria Popova

  Art, Illustration, Hands

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• The capacity of the mind is broad and huge, like the vast sky. Do not sit with a mind fixed on emptiness. If you do, you will fall into a neutral kind of emptiness. Emptiness includes the sun, moon, stars, and planets, the great earth, mountains and rivers, all trees and grasses, bad people and good people, bad things and good things, heaven and hell; they are all in the midst of emptiness. The emptiness of human nature is also like this.

  Huineng

  Stars, Fall, Moon

  Huineng (1967). “The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch”

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• There's not another drug in life that I'm glad I took but grass.

  George Michael

  Drug, Glad

  "Exclusive: George Michael on Drugs". Interview with Melvyn Bragg, www.mirror.co.uk. October 20, 2006.

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• The mind that thought of light, heavy, grey, yellow, still, swift, also conceived of magic that would make heavy things light and able to fly, turn grey lead into yellow gold, and the still rock into a swift water. If it could do the one, it could do the other; it inevitably did both. When we can take green from grass, blue from heaven, and red from blood, we have already an enchanter's power.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Powerful, Light, Rocks

  "On Fairy-Stories". Andrew Lang Lecture at the University of St. Andrews on March 08, 1939. "Essays presented to Charles Williams", 1947.

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• Investing is like waiting for paint dry and grass grow so. If you like fun, let handle 800 USD and headed to Las Vegas

  Paul Samuelson

  Fun, Vegas, Waiting

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• The earth affords a lavish supply of richess of innocent foods, and offers you banquets that involve no bloodshed or slaughter; only beasts satisfy their hunger with flesh, and not even all of those, because horses, cattle, and sheep live on grass.

  Pythagoras

  Horse, Sheep, Vegetarian Diet

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