Grasshoppers Quotes

• My dear young fellow,' the Old-Green-Grasshopper said gently, 'there are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet.

  Roald Dahl

  World, Green, Trying New Things

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• If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Fighting, Judgement, Trying

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• You are unique, and this is a beautiful, beautiful thing, grasshopper.

  Libba Bray

  Beautiful, Unique, Beautiful Things

  Libba Bray (2003). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.416, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Now climb, young grasshopper, so your Kung Fu won't be weak.

  Ilona Andrews

  Kung Fu, Weak, Young

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.53, Penguin

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• How narrow is the vision that exalts the busyness of the ant above the singing of the grasshopper.

  Khalil Gibran

  Singing, Vision, Ants

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Grasshopper always wrong in argument with chicken.

  Bertrand Russell

  Wisdom, Argument, Chickens

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• Green little vaulter, in the sunny grass, Catching your heart up at the feel of June, Sole noise that's heard amidst the lazy noon, When ev'n the bees lag at the summoning brass.

  Leigh Hunt

  Heart, June, Lazy

  James Henry Leigh Hunt, “To The Grasshopper And The Cricket”

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• You need to learn patience, you grasshopper

  Nicholas Sparks

  Needs

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• Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks to wade, water lilies, woodchucks, bats, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet, hayfields, pine-cones, rocks to roll, sand, snakes, huckleberries and hornets; and any child who has been deprived of these has been deprived of the best part of education.

  Luther Burbank

  Children, Butterfly, Animal

  Luther Burbank (2000). “The Training of the Human Plant”, p.91, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray, to not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field; that, of course, they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little, shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.

  Edmund Burke

  Numbers, Imagination, Shadow

  Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.557, Transaction Publishers

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• Patience, grasshopper," said Maia. "Good things come to those who wait." "I always thought that was 'Good things come to those who do the wave,'" said Simon. "No wonder I've been so confused all my life.

  Cassandra Clare

  Confused, Waiting, Wonder

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1377, Simon and Schuster

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• Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate.

  Augusto Roa Bastos

  Men, Copying, Generations

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• Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning's gentle wine! Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; 'Tis fill'd wherever thou dost tread, Nature's self's thy Ganymede.

  Abraham Cowley

  Morning, Wine, Self

  Abraham Cowley (1772). “Select works of mr. A. Cowley [ed. by R. Hurd].”, p.148

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• When a man makes alliance with the Almighty, giants look like grasshoppers.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Men, Giants

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• All things come to those who wait.

  Violet Fane

  Patience, Funny Inspirational, Life Changing

  Violet Fane (1872). “From Dawn to Noon: Poems”, p.85

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• Giddy grasshopper Take care...do not leap and crush These pearls of dewdrop

  Kobayashi Issa

  Crush, Care, Pearls

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• Twere better far That gods should quaff their nectar merrily, And men sing out the day like grasshoppers, So may they haply lull the watchful thunder.

  Hartley Coleridge

  Men, May, Thunder

  Hartley Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge (1851). “Poems”, p.272

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• No means yes in grasshopper language.

  Noel Fielding

  Funny, Mean, Humor

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• Personally I am very fond of strawberries and cream, but I have found that for some strange reason, fish prefer worms. So when I went fishing, I didn’t think about what I wanted. I thought about what they wanted. I didn't bait the hook with strawberries and cream. Rather, I dangled a worm or grasshopper in front of the fish and said: "Wouldn't you like to have that?" Why not use the same common sense when fishing for people?

  Dale Carnegie

  Thinking, Fishing, People

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.36, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• I miss the grasshoppers much, but suppose it is all for the best. I should become too much attached to a trotting world.

  Emily Dickinson

  Missing, World, Too Much

  Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.44, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.

  Alexander Pope

  Summer, Wise, War

  Alexander Pope (1830). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope (including His Translation of Homer). To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author, by Dr. Johnson”, p.233

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• A big business man was telling Henry Ford about a coach driver of super-expertness with his whip. The driver was telling how he could flick a fly off his horse's ear with his whip-and, a fly alighting just then, he promptly did so. Next he spied a grasshopper beside the road, and he flicked it off with equal dexterity. A little further along the road the passenger noticed an insect on a bush, and nudged the driver to get him. Not on your life, replied the master of the whip. That there insect is a hornet sitting on his nest with an organization behind him. I leave him alone.

  B. C. Forbes

  Horse, Business, Men

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• Crowds of bees are giddy with clover
  Crowds of grasshoppers skip at our feet,
  Crowds of larks at their matins hang over,
  Thanking the Lord for a life so sweet.

  Jean Ingelow

  Sweet, Feet, Bees

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.1

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• 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

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• Feeling well that breathed words Would all be lost, unheard, and vain as swords Against the enchased crocodile, or leaps Of grasshoppers against the sun.

  John Keats

  Feelings, Sun, Vain

  John Keats (2015). “The Complete Poetry of John Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn + Ode to a Nightingale + Hyperion + Endymion + The Eve of St. Agnes + Isabella + Ode to Psyche + Lamia + Sonnets and more from one of the most beloved English Romantic poets”, p.534, e-artnow

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