Best 177 quotes in «grass quotes» category

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

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.

Make sure you cut the grass low so the snakes show

Maybe it's better like this, better that everything should go up in a blaze of dry grass and that people should begin again.

No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.

My Mama Moved Among the Days My Mama moved among the days like a dreamwalker in a field; seemed like what she touched was here seemed like what touched her couldn't hold, she got us almost through the high grass then seemed like she turned around and ran right back in right back on in

No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.

Never define your success by somebody else's success. I never looked at another man's grass to tell how green mine should be.

No one comes from the earth like grass. We come like trees. We all have roots.

our finest writing will certainly come from what is unregenerate in ourselves. It will come from the part that is obdurate, unbanishable, immune to education, springing up like grass.

One of the most important things, actually, when you're playing on grass, is to move.

Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn.

Okay let's get this over with, no I'm not seasick, yes I've always been green, No I didn't eat grass as a child.

Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers' imperial dreams.

Pigs eat grass if they are very hungry, but they can't use it as a regular source of food.

Please keep off the grass.

Reading Chaucer is like brushing through the dewy grass at sunrise.

Society is like a lawn, where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface

Remember, the grass is always greener where you don't happen to be the neighbor.

Research is a scientific activity dedicated to discovering what makes grass green.

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

Summer — summer — summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!

the camels had strayed far in search of scarce grass. When collected, they displayed a fiendish ingenuity in throwing their loads and tangling themselves up in every possible strap.

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

The aged are terrible - mere heaps of cinders on the grass from which none can tell how tall the flames once were or what company gathered round them.

The dry grasses are not dead for me. A beautiful form has as much life at one season as another.

The dirt was OK, but once you hit the grass... Wet grass is slippery

The fountain is my speech. The tulips are my speech. The grass and trees are my speech.

The grass is always greener over the septic tank.

The grass is always greener around the fire hydrant.

The grass is always greener once you don't have to mow a lawn anymore.

The grass is always greener when it's covered in money.

The grass is always greener on the other side, unless Vince Russo has been there in which case the grass is most likely dead.

The grass isn't always greener on the other side. I start off kind of in love and then I leave love and I'm single.

The older, thinner, and less productive grass lands, however, frequently can be made to produce much larger yields of feed in corn than if left, as they are, in unproductive grass.

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

The person who knows a great deal about things but has never learnt to see, tends to be assertive; those who have once lost their hearts to a blade of grass or a glowworm and sensed God's omnipresence within them are at least on the road to reverence.

There's a snake hidden in the grass.

The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all.

There hath grown no grass on my heels since I went hence.

There is melancholy in the wind and sorrow in the grass

There's a snake lurking in the grass.

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

There, where I have passed, the grass will never grow gain.

Well, what do you owe yourself? Do you dare take time out to listen to the grass grow, or can you even afford the expense of getting far enough away from life's daily cacophony to hear it grow if you took the time?

The warm green of the grass, sprinkled with flowers of many hues, is a carpet whereon we walk with noiseless tread.

The worst place to be is in the middle. When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.

This soft grass suggests 'softness' to me, but also at the same time 'lying-down-ness'.

Though no one had been buried here for almost thirty years, the grass was mown by yours truly. I felt a tidy graveyard made a happy graveyard.

To kill the grass you must also remove the root