Grass Quotes

Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.

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

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.

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.

The grass is always greener over the septic tank.

For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee; For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank Thee!

Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.

That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass - deadly to the incautious wayfarer.

The green grass floweth like a stream Into the oceans's blue.

The streams with softest sound are flowing, The grass you almost hear it growing, You hear it now, if e'er you can.

Kill if you must, but never hate: Man is but grass and hate is blight, The sun will scorch you soon or late, Die wholesome then, since you must fight

I don't believe in angels but the moon is now dead for me. The last glass of wine is gone before the thirst I'm suffering from. The blue grass lost its way running away from your sails.

.... all blades of grass, wood, and stone, all things are One.

A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.

Never overlook wallflower at dance; may be dandelion in grass.

From the highest god to the meanest grass, the same power is present in all - whether manifested or not. We shall have to call forth that power by going from door to door.

And I do not want anymore to be useful, to be docile, to lead / children out of the fields into the text / of civility, to teach them that they are (they are not) better than the grass.

One had a lovely face, And two or three had charm, But charm and face were in vain. Because the mountain grass Cannot keep the form Where the mountain hare has lain.

This looks a good team on paper, let's see how it looks on grass.

There are some things that are real, that you can see, that you can observe, like the moon, and grass and things. But for ideas to become real, they have to be played on your senses.

Of course the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. Why do you think the neighbors put up the fence?

I've done a bit of smuggling, I've run my share of grass. I made enough money to buy Miami, but I piss it away so fast.

Four ducks on a pond, / A grass-bank beyond, / A blue sky of spring, / White clouds on the wing: / What a little thing / To remember for years - / To remember with tears!.

Dancing up the full moon Round some fair new altar Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.

A need to concentrate on each sound, so that every blade of grass would be as important as a flower.

We should not let grass grow on the path of friendship.

Sudden Light I have been here before, But when or how I cannot tell: I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the light around the shore.

We are a nation of sheep, and someone else owns the grass.

There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills. These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.

We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are.

I'm not here to say I don't eat vegetables - I do, a lot of them - but, from a soil perspective, they're actually more costly than a cow grazing on grass.

The White House is dismissing these town hall fireworks as AstroTurf movements which means it's the opposite of a true grass roots movement.

If the grass is greener in the other fellow's yard- let him worry about cutting it.

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.

Playing from deep grass is a fact of life in professional golf.

Look at those animals and remember the greatest scientists in the world have never discovered how to make grass into milk.

It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.

Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath?

Pebble Beach is Alcatraz with grass.

There is no dusk to be, There is no dawn that was, Only there's now, and now, And the wind in the grass.

A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

I am the animal at the head of the pack. … I either get eaten, or I get the good grass.

It seems hopeless, hopeless. Those who eat meat [at public expense] are a mean, selfish lot, and so the country is doomed. Our only hope lies in the grass-roots folk who eat our traditional food.

Make sure you cut the grass low so the snakes show

When she walked...she stretched out long and thin like a little tiger, and held her head high to look over the grass as if she were treading the jungle.

Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.

The cowboy doesn't need an iron horse, but covers his country on one that eats grass and wears hair.

Tradition is like the tether which prevents an animal from getting a blade of grass beyond the length of that tether