Lawns Quotes - Page 10

• I prefer the 1950s where people were like, "I'm a white supremacist, and that's who I am." Now people want to burn a cross on your lawn and call themselves not racists.

  Junot Diaz

  Who I Am, White, People

  "Junot Díaz is staying put". Interview with Marcela García, www.bostonglobe.com. April 6, 2016.

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• Today was the annual Easter egg roll on the White House lawn. Usually when you see something rolling on the White House lawn it's a drunk Secret Service agent.

  Conan O'Brien

  Easter, Eggs, White

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• Tim Tebow may be back in the NFL with the Philadelphia Eagles. As you remember, he was thrown out of the league when he landed his gyrocopter on the White House lawn.

  David Letterman

  Eagles, Nfl, White

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• Kids in Washington every year have the big Easter egg roll on the White House lawn. The kids found 300 Easter eggs. They also found about 10,000 missing Hillary emails.

  David Letterman

  Easter, Kids, Years

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• I just can't recruit where there's grass around. You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, College, Parent

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• Guy Fieri's hair is the front lawn to hell.

  Willie Geist

  Hair, Guy, Hell

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• The most frequent reason for unsuccessful advertising is advertisers who are so full of their own accomplishments (the world's best seed!) that they forget to tell us why we should buy (the world's best lawn!).

  John Caples

  Accomplishment, World, Advertising

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• Go for a short walk in a soft rain - lovely - so many wild flowers startling me through the woods and a lawn sprinkled with dandelions, like a night with stars. And through it all the sound of soft rain like the sound of innumerable earthworms stirring in the ground.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Stars, Rain, Flower

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• [On Dashiell Hammett:] ... he is so hard-boiled you could roll him on the White House lawn.

  Dorothy Parker

  White, House, Mystery Novels

  Dorothy Parker (1970). “A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by "Constant Reader"”

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• Some ideas, like dandelions in lawns, strike tenaciously: you may pull off the top but the root remains, drives down suckers and may even sprout again.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Ideas, Roots, May

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• But times are alter'd; trade's unfeeling train
  Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain;
  Along the lawn, where scatter'd hamlets rose,
  Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Land, Rose, Wealth

  Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior (1851). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Including a Variety of Pieces Now First Collected”, p.66

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• Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures, Russet lawns and fallows grey, Where the nibbling flocks do stray, Mountains on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide.

  John Milton

  Eye, Rivers, Clouds

  c.1631 L'Allegro, l.69-76.

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• I looked at her. my lovely, tall mother with her pretty coil of hair and her hard, bitter mouth. Her veins were never open. Her heart never leapt out to flop helplessly on the lawn. She never melted into puddles. She was normal. Always. At any cost.

  E. Lockhart

  Mother, Heart, Hair

  E. Lockhart (2014). “We Were Liars”, p.195, Delacorte Press

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• The picture of Mother Teresa that I remember from my childhood is of a short, sari-wearing woman scurrying down a red gravel path between manicured lawns. She would have in tow one or two slower-footed, sari-clad young Indian nuns. We thought her a freak. Probably wed picked up on unvoiced opinions of our Loreto nuns.

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Mother, Two, Childhood

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• It's something he used to say when he was happy. It could be a very, very simple day. We might be sitting out on the front lawn. Dad loved classical music and we might be listening to some Stravinsky or something and having some tea and eggs. And he'd say, 'Oh, good stuff, isn't it?'

  Jennifer Grant

  Dad, Simple, Eggs

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

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• Surely among a rich man's flowering lawns,
  Amid the rustle of his planted hills,
  Life overflows without ambitious pains;
  And rains down life until the basin spills,
  And mounts more dizzy high the more it rains
  As though to choose whatever shape it wills.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Pain, Rain

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

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• You cutting the lawn, fixing the machines,
  all this leprous day and then more vodka,
  more soda and the pond forgiving our bodies,
  the pond sucking out the throb.

  Anne Sexton

  Cutting, Forgiving, Ponds

  Anne Sexton (1974). “The death notebooks”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Please do not take counsel of women who are so prejudiced that, as I once heard said, they would not allow a male grasshopper to chirp on their lawn; but out of your own great heart, refuse to set an example to such folly.

  Frances E. Willard

  Heart, Males, Example

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• Finally [Indira Ganhi] called a beautiful dark little boy who was playing on the lawn, and embracing him tenderly, murmured, 'This is my grandchild; this is the man I love most in the world.' It was a strange sensation to watch this very powerful woman embracing a child.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Beautiful, Children, Powerful

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• We know that inevitably the millennials will get old and tired again, and then there will be the bilennials or trilennials, or whatever the next generation is, and we're all going to end up on our lawn shaking our fists in a bathrobe yelling at the moon.

  Jon Hamm

  Tired, Moon, Yelling

  "‘Mad Men’ star Jon Hamm looks back: ‘It was a long, strange trip’". Interview With Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. March 31, 2015.

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• Does the unmistakeable intent of Versailles to proclaim dominion over nature destroy its aesthetic appeal, as Schopenhauer thought? Does the greenness of the lawn lose its allure when we learn how much water, sorely needed elsewhere, it uses? And historical shifts in garden taste - from formal, 'French' gardens to 'Capability' Brown's landscapes, for instance, or from the elaborate gardens of imperial Kyoto to Zen 'dry' gardens - register important changes in philosophical or religious attitudes.

  David E. Cooper

  Religious, Attitude, Philosophical

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• We pretend to be a middle class, democratic nation, but in reality we love our blue bloods. ... We love the prep school manners, the aristocratic calm, the Skull and Bones mystery, the dappled lawns stretching before New England summer homes. How else can be explained the Bush vs. Kerry match-up that confronts us this year?

  David Brooks

  Summer, Home, School

  "Democratic aristocrats and blue collar Republicans". www.cnn.com. March 15, 2004.

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• Tonight, the moon came out, it was nearly full.
  Way down here on earth, I could feel it's pull.
  The weight of gravity or just the lure of life,
  Made me want to leave my only home tonight.
  
  I'm just wondering how we know where we belong
  Is it in the arc of the moon, leaving shadows on the lawn
  In the path of fireflies and a single bird at dawn
  Singing in between here and gone

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Life, Nature, Travel

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• Sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet; Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn, The moans of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Music, Sweet, Voice

  'The Princess' (1847) pt. 7, l. 203, song (added 1850)

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• A college president is like the lawn mower at a cemetary: he has a lot of people under him, but they don't pay much attention to him

  Steven Sample

  College, People, President

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