Grass Quotes - Page 12

• Green grass grows where dry desert ends.

  Og Mandino

  Desert, Dry, Green

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• It was the most emphatic display of selflessness I have seen on a football field. Pounding over every blade of grass, competing as if he would rather die of exhaustion than lose, he inspired all around him.

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Football, Player

  "A-League talking points: Melbourne City fail another test of character" by Jonathan Howcroft, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2015.

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• You and I are just like a blade of grass sitting here; we are going to wither and die. "But the word of the Lord endures forever"

  Adrian Rogers

  Forever, Sitting, Lord

  Adrian Rogers, Steve Rogers (2012). “What Every Christian Ought to Know”, p.22, B&H Publishing Group

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• I meditate for the last time on this mountain that is bare, though others all around are white with snow. Like the bare peak of the koan, this one is not different from myself. I know this mountain because I am this mountain, I can feel it breathing at this moment, as its grass tops stray against the snows. If the snow leopard should leap from the rock above and manifest itself before me - S-A-A-O! - then in that moment of pure fright, out of my wits, I might truly perceive it, and be free.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Time, Nature, Rocks

  Peter Matthiessen (1998). “Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969-1982”, p.89, Shambhala Publications

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• 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.

  Chase Utley

  Organization, Guy, Gone

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

  Jock Stein

  Blue, Rangers, Alright

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

  Marie Therese Rodet Geoffrin

  Path, Should, Grows

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• O' beautiful for spacious skies
  But now those skies are threatening
  They're beating plowshares into swords
  For this tired old man that we elected king
  Armchair warriors often fail
  And we've been poisoned by these fairy tales
  The lawyers clean up all details
  Since daddy had to lie
  But I know a place where we can go
  And wash away this sin
  We'll sit and watch the clouds roll by
  And the tall grass wave in the wind
  Just lay your head back on the ground
  And let your hair spill all around me
  Offer up your best defence
  But this is the end
  This is the end of the innocence

  Don Henley

  Beautiful, Song, Kings

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• And so she comes to dream herself the tree, The wind possessing her, weaving her young veins, Holding her to the sky and its quick blue, Drowning the fever of her hands in sunlight. She has no memory, nor fear, nor hope Beyond the grass and shadows at her feet.

  Hart Crane

  Dream, Memories, Blue

  Hart Crane (1966). “The complete poems and selected letters and prose of Hart Crane”, Anchor

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• Hawthorn, white and odorous with blossom, framing the quiet fields, and swaying flowers and grasses, and the hum of bees.

  F. S Flint

  Flower, White, Tree

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• Summer is a prodigal of joy. The grass Swarms with delighted insects as I pass, And crowds of grasshoppers at every stride Jump out all ways with happiness their guide; And from my brushing feet moths flit away In safer places to pursue their play. In crowds they start. I marvel, well I may, To see such worlds of insects in the way, And more to see each thing, however small, Sharing joy's bounty that belongs to all. And here I gather, by the world forgot, Harvests of comfort from their happy mood, Feeling God's blessing dwells in every spot And nothing lives but owes him gratitude.

  John Clare

  Summer, Gratitude, Blessing

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• And hate the bright stillness of the noon without wind, without motion. the only other living thing a hawk, hungry for prey, suspended in the blinding, sunlit blue. And yet how gentle it seems to someone raised in a landscape short of rain- the skyline of a hill broken by no more trees than one can count, the grass, the empty sky, the wish for water.

  Dana Gioia

  Summer, Hate, Rain

  Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.35, Macmillan

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

  Nicholas Udall

  Action, Heels

  I. E. Clark, Nicholas Udall (1965). “Nicholas Udall's Ralph Roister Doister: A One-act Version”, p.17, I. E. Clark Publications

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• I often surprise myself. You can't plan some shots that go in, not unless you're on marijuana, and the only grass I'm partial to is Wimbledon's.

  Rod Laver

  Marijuana, Tennis, Wimbledon

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• 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.

  Goran Ivanisevic

  Player, Hands, Tennis

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

  Goran Ivanisevic

  Cutting, Tennis, Lines

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

  George T. Delacorte, Jr.

  Tree, Speech, Fountain

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• When death comes, we take off our clothes and gather everything we left behind: what is dark, broken, touched with shame. When Death demands we give an accounting, naked we present our lives in bundles. See how much these weigh, we tell him, refusing to deny what we have lived. Everything that is touched by light loves the light. We the stubborn-as-grass, we who reel at the taste of sap and want our spirits cleansed, will not betray the weeds, snake, or crippled mare. Never leave behind what the light shone on.

  Linda Gregg

  Weed, Dark, Light

  Linda Gregg (1991). “Sacraments of Desire”, Graywolf Press

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• There are nettles everywhere, but smooth, green grasses are more common still; the blue of heaven is larger than the cloud.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Clouds, Blue, Heaven

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.439

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• Boredom is the consciousness of repetition. Because animals cannot remember the past, they cannot feel bored. They cannot remember the past, so they cannot feel bored. They cannot remember the past, so they cannot feel the repetition. The buffalo goes on eating the same grass every day with the same delight. You cannot. How can you eat the same grass with the same delight? You get fed up.

  Rajneesh

  Animal, Past, Boredom

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• If the grass is greener on the other side it`s probably getting better care. Success is a matter of sticking to a set of common sense principles anyone can master.

  Earl Nightingale

  Common Sense, Get Better, Principles

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• 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.

  Jackson Browne

  Sunday, Nuclear Disarmament, Play

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• Since the age of six, I have had a passion for drawing things. Now that I am 75 years, I have finally learned something of the true quality of birds, animals, insects, fishes, and of the vital nature of grasses and trees. By the time I am 89, I shall have made more progress. By the time I am 90, I shall understand the deeper meaning of things. When I am 100, I shall be truly marvelous; and at 110 each dot and each line will possess a life of its own.

  Hokusai

  Passion, Animal, Years

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• Sir, in carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good. The relation between superiors and inferiors is like that between the wind and the grass. The grass must bend, when the wind blows across it.

  Confucius

  Blow, Government, Wind

  Confucius, James Legge (1893). “Confucian Analects: The Great Learning, and The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.105, Courier Corporation

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• Wheaties was the big sponsor in those days (1940s). They sponsored almost all the baseball games in the majors and the minors. That was a lot of Wheaties. I think there were twenty-four boxes in a case and some of these guys were hitting twenty-five and thirty home runs a season. We had a dog in those days named Blue Grass and the players used to give us their Wheaties for him. Blue Grass loved Wheaties and so did I.

  Ernie Harwell

  Baseball, Running, Dog

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