Lawns Quotes - Page 2

• They're a rotten crowd', I shouted across the lawn. 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Friendship, Together, Rotten

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.119, Atlântico Press

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• My parents were kind of over protective people. Me and my sister had to play in the backyard all the time. They bought us bikes for Christmas but wouldn't let us ride in the street, we had to ride in the backyard. Another Christmas, my dad got me a basketball hoop and put it in the middle of the lawn! You can't dribble on grass.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Basketball, Christmas, Dad

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• I'll toss my coins in the fountain,
  Look for clovers in grassy lawns
  Search for shooting stars in the night
  Cross my fingers and dream on.

  Tracy Chapman

  Dream, Stars, Night

  Song: Dreaming On A World

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• Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain

  Jack Kerouac

  Motivational, Wisdom, Travel

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• colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middle-class non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of well-to-do houses with lawns and television sets in each living room with everybody looking at the same thing and thinking the same thing at the same time while the Japhies of the world go prowling in the wilderness to hear the voice crying in the wilderness, to find the ecstacy of the stars, to find the dark mysterious secret of the origin of faceless wonderless crapulous civilization.

  Jack Kerouac

  Stars, School, Dark

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.39, Penguin

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• Aubade THE lark now leaves his wat'ry nest, And climbing shakes his dewy wings. He takes this window for the East, And to implore your light he sings- Awake, awake! the morn will never rise Till she can dress her beauty at your eyes. The merchant bows unto the seaman's star, The ploughman from the sun his season takes, But still the lover wonders what they are Who look for day before his mistress wakes. Awake, awake! break thro' your veils of lawn! Then draw your curtains, and begin the dawn!

  William Davenant

  Stars, Eye, Light

  William Davenant, “Morning Song”

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• The man who worries morning and night about the dandelions in the lawn will find great relief in loving the dandelions.

  Liberty Hyde Bailey

  Morning, Night, Men

  Liberty Hyde Bailey (1910). “Manual of Gardening: A Practical Guide to the Making of Home Grounds and the Growing of Flowers, Fruits, and Vegetables for Home Use”

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• Consider the many special delights a lawn affords: soft mattress for a creeping baby; worm hatchery for a robin; croquet or badminton court; baseball diamond; restful green perspectives leading the eye to a background of flower beds, shrubs, or hedge; green shadows - "This lawn, a carpet all alive/With shadows flung from leaves' - as changing and as spellbinding as the waves of the sea, whether flecked with sunlight under trees of light foliage, like elm and locust, or deep, dark, solid shade, moving slowly as the tide, under maple and oak. This carpet!

  Katharine Sergeant Angell White

  Leadership, Baseball, Baby

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• It's not that the grass is greener on the other side, it's that you can never be on both sides of the lawn at the same time.

  Laura Fraser

  Grass Is Greener On The Other Side, Sides, Grass

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• Somewhere, a long way away, people are doing sensible things like mowing lawns and digging gardens.

  Michael Palin

  Garden, Long, People

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• I spend hours mowing the lawn in absolutely straight lines on my tractor. If it's not right, I do it again.

  Britt Ekland

  Mowing, Lines, Hours

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• Be sure to lay wide streets planted with shady trees, every other of a quick-growing variety. Be sure that there is plenty of space for lawns and gardens, reserved large areas for football, hockey and parks. Earmark areas for Hindu temples, Mohammedan mosques and Christian churches.

  Jamsetji Tata

  Christian, Football, Hockey

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• We don't need women. There are plenty other things in the world to have sex with, just go to a sexaholics meeting and take notes. There's microwaved watermelons. There's the vibrating handles of lawn mowers right at crotch level. There's vacuum cleaners and beanbag chairs. Internet sites. All those old chat room sex hounds pretending to be sixteen-year-old girls. For serious, old FBI guys makes the sexiest cyberbabes.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Girl, Sex, Years

  "Choke". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2001.

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• ... what's in a person's heart and soul will not likely be changed by the ability to command a helicopter to land on the South Lawn.

  Robert Dallek

  Character, Heart, Land

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• In lawn tennis mixed, the basic chivalry move is to pretend to serve less fiercely to the woman than to the man. This is particularly useful if your first service tends to be out in any case.

  Stephen Potter

  Moving, Men, Tennis

  Stephen Potter (1950). “Some notes on lifemanship: with a summary of recent researches in gamesmanship”

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• When you're not in love, when you don't have love, everybody you know falls in love.

  Dane Cook

  Falling In Love, People, Bags

  "Dane Cook: A Stand-Up Comic on the Rise". "Day to Day" with Alex Chadwick, www.npr.org. December 1, 2005.

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• My mother was a very elegant woman. When a flying saucer landed on the lawn, she turned it over to see if it was Wedgwood.

  Joan Rivers

  Mother, Humor, Flying

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• If I were just your average 23-year-old girl, and I called the police to say that there were strange men sleeping on my lawn and following me to Starbucks, they would leap into action. But because I am a famous person, well, sorry, ma'am, there's nothing we can do. It makes no sense.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Life, Girl, Sorry

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• I don't think it's fair - you get married, you give your wife a wedding ring. I think you should give her a mood ring. Oh, it may sound crass, but just check the color when you come home. 'Hi honey. Infernal red? Oh boy, I ain't getting laid, and I gotta cut the lawn, I know it.'

  Adam Ferrara

  Home, Cutting, Boys

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• I’m on top of my green like a lawn chair

  Lil Wayne

  Green, Chairs

  Song: Never Get It

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• I must admit that outside the university, it is difficult to be a pure mathematician. No one in my family understands what I do. My neighbors wonder why I spend all my time in my study scribbling with pencil on a yellow pad of paper instead of going outside to mow the lawn.

  Isadore Singer

  Yellow, Paper, Pads

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• It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawn mower, snowblower and vacuum cleaner.

  Ben Berger

  Inspirational, Funny, Hilarious

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• I have just realized that it is due to you, and to Mr. James Thomas and his staff of the Army Navy Country Club that the putting green here on the White House lawn is already in such excellent condition. I assure you that I get a great deal of pleasure and relaxation out of using the green in an occasional late afternoon hour . . .

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Sports, Country, Army

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• When I won the Derby on Never Say Die I went home and cut the lawn. I haven't cut the lawn since.

  Lester Piggott

  Home, Cutting, Havens

  2004 In the Observer, 30May.

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• The banker rubs his nose, thinking of his cat stalking something on the lawn.

  Mason Cooley

  Cat, Thinking, Bankers

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