Grass Quotes

The grass isn't always greener on the other side!

Ach, Rangers are alright, but they still haven’t invented blue grass.

I'd like to combine melancholy and sunshine... There's a sadness in Provence which no one has expressed... I'd like to put reason in the grass and tears in the sky, like Poussin.

The true poet, is like a man who's happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he's allowed to look at leaves and grass, to see the sun rise and set.

Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.

I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

May you live to see the green grass growing over your grave.

I am too not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

There was no more grass, no flowers, not even any moss: dusty granite blocks covered the ice and an occasional grinding groan reminded us that we were on a slow-moving glacier.

When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white.

Charity is like warmth in springtime or summer that causes grass, plants, and trees to grow. Without charity, or spiritual warmth, nothing grows.

This country is no more saved than; well ... it's as lost as they say in Alabama, "... as lost as a ball in tall grass."

In a snowfall that covers the winter grass a white heron uses his own whiteness to disappear.

I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.

How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'Green'?

Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.

Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.

Sunk in the grass of an empty lot on a spring Saturday, I split the stems of milkweed and thought about ants and peach pits and death and where the world went when I closed my eyes.

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

Under the pavement the dirt is dreaming of grass.

Loafe with me on the grass—loose the stop from your throat; Not words, not music or rhyme I want—not custom or lecture, not even the best; Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice.

I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament - it was about 1982 - they called it Peace Sunday.

It's not that the grass is greener on the other side, it's that you can never be on both sides of the lawn at the same time.

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

But the grass ain't always greener on the other side, It's green where you water it

There've been a lot more people hurt on astro-turf than grass.

Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball.

We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.

I'm Allergic to grass. Hey, it could be worse. I could be allergic to beer.

I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.

In this light, my spirit saw through all things and into all creatures and I recognized God in grass and plants.

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Once you've learned to study in a bathing suit on the grass with muscled men throwing frisbees over your head, you can accomplish almost anything.

Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.

A soldier never dies. His blood makes the grass green for his children.

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

For many years, at great cost, I traveled through many countries, saw the high mountains, the oceans. The only things I did not see were the sparkling dewdrops in the grass just outside my door.

O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?

If I can't serve on grass, I can maybe help cut the grass, paint the lines and serve some strawberries.

Focus on this moment. Hold your hand and see what it feels like. Go look at some grass. Talk to a palm tree. Outrun a Ferrari. Experience life.

The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all is there for itself.

If the grass is greener somewhere else...start watering your own lawn!

Where innocent bright-eyes daisies are With blades of grass between, Each daisy stands up like a star Out of a sky of green.

If God had wanted us to play football in the sky, He'd have put grass up there.

Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.

Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun.

All over the land are vast and handsome pastures, with good grass for cattle, and it strikes me the soil would be very fertile were the country inhabited and improved by reasonable people.

Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment.

And joy is everywhere; it is in the earth's green covering of grass; in the blue serenity of the sky.