Grass Quotes - Page 18

• There was scarcely a woman alive, it seemed, who could resist the urge to haul men down onto beds, car seats, kitchen floors, dining-room tables, park grass, parlor sofas, or packing crates, entwine warm thighs around them, and pant in ecstasy.

  Russell Baker

  Sex, Men, Car

  Russell Baker (1983). “Growing Up”, Plume

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• Grass is the least rewarding of all status symbols... The grass does nothing but drink money, exhaust energies, crush spirits, destroy sleep, create tensions and interfere with the watching of baseball games, and sprout insolent signs ordering humans to keep off it.

  Russell Baker

  Crush, Baseball, Sleep

  Russell Baker (1965). “All Things Considered”

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• A man's renown is like the hue of grass, Which comes and goes.

  Dante Alighieri

  Men, Hue, Fame

  Dante Alighieri (1948). “Dante”

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• Make sure you cut the grass low so the snakes show

  Banky W.

  Cutting, Snakes, Lows

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• When I was a small boy I often went to the woods to lie on the grass in the shade. Somehow I had come to believe the earth could give me wisdom, but it did not. Yet I learned a little about animals and learned it is not always brave to make a stand. It is often foolish. There is a time for courage and a time for flight.

  Louis L'Amour

  Lying, Believe, Animal

  Louis L'Amour (2003). “Ride the Dark Trail”, p.70, Bantam

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• There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell. Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond (this, truly, diabolical) is established between you and him.

  Umberto Eco

  Pain, Animal, Heaven

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You work here [on the farm] simply without philosophizing; sometimes the work is hard and crowded with pettiness. But at times you feel a surge of cosmic exaltation, like the clear light of the heavens... . And you, too, seem to be taking root in the soil which you are digging, to be nourished by the rays of the sun, to share life with the tiniest blade of grass, with each flower; living in nature's depths, you seem then to rise and grow into the vast expanse of the universe.

  A. D. Gordon

  Flower, Land, Roots

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• Joy is everywhere; it is in the earth's green covering of grass: in the blue serenity of the sky: in the reckless exuberance of spring: in the severe abstinence of grey winter: in the living flesh that animates our bodily frame: in the perfect poise of the human figure, noble and upright: in living, in the exercise of all our powers: in the acquisition of knowledge. . . Joy is there everywhere.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Spring, Winter, Exercise

  Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life”, p.64, Rabindranath Tagore

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• God, we thank you for this earth, our homes; for the wide sky and the blessed sun, for the salt sea and the running water, for the everlasting hills and the never resting winds, for trees and the common grass underfoot. We thank you for our senses by which we hear the songs of birds, and see the splendor of the summer fields, and taste of the autumn fruits, and rejoice in the feel of the snow, and smell the breath of the spring. Grant us a heart wide open to all this beauty; and save our souls from being so blind that we pass unseeing when even the common thorn bush is aflame with your glory.

  Walter Rauschenbusch

  Summer, Running, Song

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• The gentle rain which waters my beans and keeps me in the house today is not drear and melancholy, but good for me too. Though it prevents my hoeing them, it is of far more worth than my hoeing. If it should continue so long as to cause the seeds to rot in the ground and destroy the potatoes in the low lands, it would still be good for the grass on the uplands, and, being good for the grass, would be good for me, too.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Rain, Land

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.95, Xist Publishing

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• The beauty of the trees, the softness of the air, the fragrance of the grass, they speak to me. The summit of the mountain, the thunder of the sky, the rhythm of the sea, speaks to me. The faintness of the stars, the freshness of the morning, the dewdrop on the flower, speaks to me. The strength of the fire, the taste of the salmon, the trail of the sun, and the life that never goes away, they speak to me. And my heart soars.

  Chief Dan George

  Morning, Nature, Stars

  Chief Dan George, “My Heart Soars”

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• I believe there are two sides to the phenomenon known as death, this side where we live, and the other side where we shall continue to live. Eternity does not start with death. We are in eternity now. Norman Vincent Peale It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

  Crowfoot

  Running, Rest In Peace, Believe

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• My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were. Some of them could not run up a hill and called it trying to climb stairs.

  Georg Brandes

  Running, Father, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I never fail to be moved by knowing that the ground on which I walk is layered with the past- with achievement and strife and the repeated passions and conflicts of the human creature, always changing, always the same. Generations passing like grass.

  Eva Hoffman

  Passion, Past, Knowing

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• Everybody always thinks the grass is always greener.

  Patrick Ewing

  Thinking, Grass Is Always Greener, Greener

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• The grass roots are energized because the absolutely highest priority in the country in November is to defeat Barack Obama. I have spoken with literally thousands and thousands of tea-party activists - I have yet to meet a single tea-party leader that is not going to vote for Mitt Romney.

  Ted Cruz

  Country, Party, Roots

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• To me, I'm the epitome of what a ghetto child is: I was raised by a single parent; I stayed in apartments my whole life; I don't think I've ever cut the grass.

  2 Chainz

  Children, Ghetto, Cutting

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think there's been a major shift in grass roots media because of the Internet and because the geeks and nerds rule the world. They are in control in so many ways.

  Erin Gray

  Thinking, Media, Roots

  "Conventions: Another day at the office for celebs" by Suzanne Kelly, www.cnn.com. September 7, 2010.

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• I liked back in the sixties where you'd turn on the radio and go 'Oh that's Hendrix, that's Creedence Clearwater, that's The Doors, there's The Grass Roots, The Monkees, there's Big Brother.' You could just instantly hear it and tell. But in the eighties and nineties there's no way you could do that.

  Creed Bratton

  Brother, Doors, Roots

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• Acid, booze, and ass, needles, guns, and grass, lots of laughs.

  Joni Mitchell

  Gun, Laughing, Alcohol

  Song: Blue on Blue

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• I love coffee in a cup, little fuzzy pups, bourbon in a glass, and grass.

  Tom T. Hall

  Coffee, Glasses, Alcohol

  Song: I Love, Album: Country Songs for Children, 1995

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• Time to move on, time to get going. What lies ahead I have no way of knowing. But under my feet, baby, grass is growing.

  Tom Petty

  Baby, Lying, Moving

  Song: Time To Move On, Album: Wildflowers, 1994

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• What happens when all the parts of childhood are soldered down, when the young no longer have the time or space to play in their family's garden, cycle home in the dark with the stars and moon illuminating their route, walk down through the woods to the river, lie on their backs on hot July days in the long grass, or watch cockleburs, lit by morning sun, like bumblees quivering on harp wires? What then?

  Richard Louv

  Nature, Morning, Stars

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.81, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Dirt rolls from his palm, Blades of grass Tumble from his hair.

  Gary Soto

  Nature, Hair, Dirt

  Gary Soto (1992). “Neighborhood Odes”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Next time you see an unblemished expanse of grass, think about the chemicals that probably got dumped in your vicinity to create it. Are you grateful for that?

  Robert Wright

  Nature, Grateful, Thinking

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