Grass Quotes - Page 22

• Since the boss said I would play, I've been thinking I should kiss the penalty spot, the grass and the post. I think every Liverpool player should do that.

  Jerzy Dudek

  Kissing, Thinking, Player

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

  Charles Marion Russell

  Country, Horse, Cowboy

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• Women like poetry. A soft word in their ears and they melt - a grease spot on the grass.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Grease, Ears, Spots

  Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.61, A&C Black

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

  Cesare Pavese

  People, Dry, Should

  "The Moon and the Bonfire". Book by Cesare Pavese. Chapter XXVI, p. 148, 1950.

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• My words are little jars For you to take and put upon a shelf. Their shapes are quaint and beautiful, And they have many pleasant colours and lustres To recommend them. Also the scent from them fills the room With sweetness of flowers and crushed grasses.

  Amy Lowell

  Beautiful, Flower, Scent

  Amy Lowell (2009). “Sword Blades and Poppy Seed”, p.57, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Wind Blowing, Matter, Fields

  "The Lathe of Heaven". Book by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1971.

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• The moon carries the masks of meningitis into bedrooms, fills the wombs of pregnant women with cold water and, as soon as I'm not careful, throws handfuls of grass on my shoulders.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Moon, Water, Cold

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• The Zebra is striped all over so that the Lion can see him and eat him. Some people say he is striped so that the Lion can not see him. These people believe that the stripes of the Zebra simulate the bars of sunlight falling through the tall jungle grasses and that therefore the Zebra is invisible and that the earth is flat.

  Will Cuppy

  Zebras, Believe, Fall

  Will Cuppy (1944). “The Great Bustard and Other People: Containing: How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes and How to Become Extinct”

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• Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other. Throw it in the garbage and it springs up clean. Try to root it out and it only flourishes. Love is a weed, a dandelion that you poison from your heart. The taproots wait. The seeds blow off, ticklish, into a part of the yard you didn't spray. And one day, though you worked, though you prodded out each spiky leaf, you lift your eyes and dozens of fat golden faces bob in the grass.

  Louise Erdrich

  Love, Weed, Spring

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• My mind was once the true survey Of all these meadows fresh and gay; And in the greenness of the grass Did see its hopes as in a glass.

  Andrew Marvell

  Gay, Glasses, Mind

  c.1650-1652 'The Mower's Song' (published 1681).

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• Bread without love is like grass without salt -- the stomach may be filled, but it leaves a bad taste in the mouth.

  Leonid Andreyev

  Love Is, Taste, Salt

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• Tis easy now for the heart to be true As for grass to be green or skies to be blue-- 'Tis the natural way of living.

  James Russell Lowell

  Heart, Blue, Sky

  James Russell Lowell (1861). “Poetical Works”, p.3

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• A voice of greeting from the wind was sent; The mists enfolded me with soft white arms; The birds did sing to lap me in content, The rivers wove their charms, And every little daisy in the grass Did look up in my face, and smile to see me pass!

  Richard Henry Stoddard

  Nature, Voice, Rivers

  Richard Henry STODDARD (1852). “Poems”, p.56

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• Beginnings start without shade,Thinner than minnows.The live grass whirls with the sun,Feet run over the simple stones,There's time enough.Behold, in the lout's eye, love.

  Theodore Roethke

  Running, Eye, Simple

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.146, Anchor

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• What the eye delights in, no longer dictates My greed to enjoy: boys, grass, the fenced-off deer. It leaves those figures that distantly play On the horizon's rim: they sign their peace, in games.

  Stephen Spender

  Eye, Boys, Games

  Stephen Spender (2015). “New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender”, p.135, Faber & Faber

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• Near the snow, near the sun, in the highest fields, See how these names are fêted in the waving grass And by the streamers of the white cloud And whispers of the wind in the listening sky. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's centre. Born of the sun, they travelled a short while toward the sun And left the vivid air signed with their honour.

  Stephen Spender

  Heart, Air, Wind

  'I think continually of those who were truly great' (1933)

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• Dame Fortune is a fickle gipsy, And always blind, and often tipsy; Sometimes for years and years together, She 'll bless you with the sunniest weather, Bestowing honour, pudding, pence, You can't imagine why or whence; Then in a moment Presto, pass! Your joys are withered like the grass

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed

  Years, Weather, Joy

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1852). “Lillian: And Other Poems”, p.64

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• Direct me gods, whose changes are all holy, To where it flickers deep in grass, the moly.

  Thom Gunn

  Holy, Flicker, Direct

  Thom Gunn (2017). “Selected Poems of Thom Gunn”, p.89, Faber & Faber

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• The gray-green stretch of sandy grass,Indefinitely desolate;A sea of lead, a sky of slate;Already autumn in the air, alas!One stark monotony of stone,The long hotel, acutely white,Against the after-sunset lightWithers gray-green, and takes the grass's tone.

  Arthur Symons

  Sunset, Autumn, Air

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• Time that weakens all things else has but strengthened the impregnable position of the believer's faith and hope and confidence. And as, year by year, the tree adds another ring to its circumference, every age has added the testimony of its events to this great truth. "The grass withereth, and the flower fadeth, but the word of the Lord shall endure forever.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Flower, Years, Tree

  Thomas Guthrie (1862). “The Way to Life: Sermons”, p.107

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• What we try to do as Elders is help those who are trying to change their own societies and communities for the better. We hope that by supporting the good work that is being done, especially at the grass roots, we can help to alleviate the suffering of human beings. That is our core mission - to draw attention to the impact that conflict, injustice and poverty have on ordinary people.

  Desmond Tutu

  Roots, Impact, People

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

  Arvo Part

  Flower, Important, Sound

  "Arvo Pärt 24 prelüüdi ühele fuugale". Documentary, DVD, 2002.

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• Times like this, with the wind moving the grass and curling around her like a huge cool hand, Tess felt the world as a second presence, as another person, as if the wind and the grass had voices of their own and she could hear them talking.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Moving, Hands, Talking

  "Blind Lake". Book by Robert Charles Wilson, 2003.

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• The autumn comes, a maiden fair In slenderness and grace, With nodding rice-stems in her hair And lilies in her face. In flowers of grasses she is clad; And as she moves along, Birds greet her with their cooing glad Like bracelets' tinkling song.

  Kalidasa

  Song, Flower, Moving

  Kālidāsa (1928). “Kalidasa translations of Shakuntala, and other works”

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

  William Wendt

  Flower, Hue, Green

  John Alan Walker, William Wendt (1992). “Documents on the Life and Art of William Wendt, 1865-1946, California's Painter Laureate of the Paysage Moralisé”

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