Grass Quotes

Network marketing is really the greatest source of grass-roots capitalism, because it teaches people how to take a small bit of capital, that is your time, and build the American dream.

God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.

Drugs are very much a part of professional sports today, but when you think about it, golf is the only sport where the players aren't penalized for being on grass.

Actually I ran away from school when I was 13. No one could find me, and the police were called. I was just hiding in a little thicket of grass at my school, and went to sleep.

Still, I look down, and the grass is so green, I cannot understand how it does not wither and die with sorrow. ~Song of the Sparrow

I am solitary as grass. What is it I miss? Shall I ever find it, whatever it is?

I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks it is a meadow lacking grass, and tries to correct the error.

Everybody always thinks the grass is always greener.

How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green!

It is true there is a scent in the desert, though there may be no flower or tree or blade of grass within miles. It is the essence of the untrodden, untarnished earth herself!

All truths wait in all things.

He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone; At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone.

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

Far off in the red mangroves an alligator has heaved himself onto a hummock of grass and lies there, studying his poems.

Maybe we're grass—our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive.

Green grass grows where dry desert ends.

Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity & disenchantment it is perennial as the grass.

With many readers, brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under ground.

She sat in the dew-damp grass and ripped up clumps of it, tossing them in the air and feeling vaguely guilty about it. Some gnome ought to pop out of the tree and scold her for torturing the lawn.

O Earth, O Earth, return! Arise from out the dewy grass; Night is worn; And the morn Rises from the slumbrous mass.

Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I can bear it.

The strongest must seek a way, say you? But I say: let a ploughman plough, but choose an otter for swimming, and for running light over grass and leaf, or over snow- an Elf!

Morning: Slept. Afternoon: Slept. Evening: Ate grass. Night: Ate grass. Decided grass is boring. Scratched. Hard to reach the itchy bits. Slept.

Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?

The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.

I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.

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

If grass were legalized, it would help our drug problem enormously.

We can better see what we don't have. The other man's grass is always greener and now we can actually go and visit his grass much more and feel the absence of green in our own lives.

I love the fall. I love it because of the smells that you speak of; and also because things are dying, things that you don't have to take care of anymore, and the grass stops growing.

Watching the way the current moves a blade of grass - sometimes I've seen that happen and it has just turned me inside out.

I was always a 'grass is greener' kind of guy.

It would be equally reasonable to say that sheep are born carnivorous, and everywhere nibble grass.

Grass probably helped me as much as it hurt me. Especially as a performer.

Ivan Lendl's never going to be a great player on grass. The only time he comes to the net is to shake your hand.

In the long dusks of summer we walked the suburban streets through scents of maple and cut grass, waiting for something to happen.

The nightingale appear'd the first, And as her melody she sang, The apple into blossom burst, To life the grass and violets sprang.

deep in the meadow , under the willow , a bed of grass , a soft green pillow

My intuition told me that it was the grass that was important.Now it glows parrot-green, cool as mint, soft as moss, lying there like a cashmere blanket.

Take a woman talking, purging herself with rhymes, drumming words out like a typewriter, planting words in you like grass seed. You'll move off.

O sweet clean earth, from whom the green blade cometh! When we are dead, my best beloved and I, close well above us, that we may rest forever, sending up grass and blossoms to the sky.

Like black hulks the shadows of the great trees ride at anchor on the billowy sea of grass.

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

Every blade of grass is a blade of grace, a grace note in God's single Song. Nature is not blind and dumb. Nature is eloquent. Human science is blind and dumb if it does not hear this eloquence.

I’ve talked to guys who have played for the Phillies and gone on to other organizations and the grass isn’t always greener on the other side.

Meetings, clearly, can take place anywhere, and wouldn't it be nice to see your coworkers lounging on the grass with their shoes off?

I can't sit on grass without a blanket.

Remember that "Help us grow this grass" is a far more effective sign than "Keep off the grass".

You may have heard that back in the States there are some people who are smoking grass. I don't know how you feel, but it's sure easier than cutting the stuff.

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.