Lawns Quotes - Page 5

• What boy my age didn’t dream of fleeing the well-tended lawn and lamp-lit street for the untamed wilderness, where grand adventure awaited on the other side of the horizon, where the stars burned undimmed in the velvet sky above his head and the virgin ground lay untrodden beneath his feet?

  Rick Yancey

  Dream, Stars, Adventure

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: Curse of the Wendigo”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• Hassan and I fed from the same breasts. We took our first steps on the same lawn in the same yard. And, under the same roof, we spoke our first words. Mine was Baba. His was Amir. My name. Looking back on it now, I think the foundation for what happened in the winter of 1975 —and all that followed— was already laid in those first words.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Winter, Thinking, Names

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.10, A&C Black

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• Alexia, did you know there is an entire regiment decamping on your front lawn? Laddy Maccon sighed. "Really, Ivy, I would never have noticed.

  Gail Carriger

  Ivy, Knows, Did You Know

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• Her eye fell everywhere on lawns and plantations of the freshest green; and the trees, though not fully clothed, were in that delightful state when farther beauty is known to be at hand, and when, while much is actually given to the sight, more yet remains for the imagination.

  Jane Austen

  Eye, Sight, Hands

  Jane Austen, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Jane Austen: All novels, short stories, letters and poems”, p.918, GENERAL PRESS

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• Could you please put this--could you all put these--could you get dressed, please?" The woman only bestowed a serene smile on me. "We are as the Goddess requires." "The Goddess requires you to be naked on my lawn?

  Kelley Armstrong

  Naked, Goddess, Serene

  Kelley Armstrong (2013). “Spellcasters: The Case of the Half-Demon Spy, Dime Store Magic, Industrial Magic, Wedding Bell Hell”, p.234, Vintage Canada

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• You probably think that being a guest in your aunt's house I would hesitate to butter you all over the front lawn and dance on the fragments in hobnailed boots, but you are mistaken. It would be a genuine pleasure. By an odd coincidence I brought a pair of hobnailed boots with me!' So saying, and recognising a good exit line when he saw one, he strode out, and after an interval of tense meditation I followed him. (Spode to Wooster)

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Aunt, Thinking, House

  P.G. Wodehouse (2000). “Jeeves And The Tie That Binds”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• Bran was stripping her futon down to the bare mattress when she entered her apartment. It was sort of like watching the president mowing the White House lawn or taking out the trash.

  Patricia Briggs

  White, House, President

  Patricia Briggs (2008). “Cry Wolf”, p.13, Penguin

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• And that heart which was a wild garden was given to him who only loved trim lawns. And the imbecile carried the princess into slavery.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Princess, Heart, Garden

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• I was the shadow of the waxwing slain By the false azure in the windowpane; I was the smudge of ashen fluff -and I Lived on, flew on, in the reflected sky. And from the inside, too, I'd duplicate Myself, my lamp, an apple on a plate: Uncurtaining the night, I'd let dark glass Hang all the furniture above the grass, And how delightful when a fall of snow Covered my glimpse of lawn and reached up so As to make chair and bed exactly stand Upon that snow, out in that crystal land!

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Fall, Dark, Night

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• Insects were scurrying about in the shade cast by the grass, and the lawn was a huge monotonous forest of thousands of little green blades, all equal, all alike, hiding the world from each other. Anguished, she thought, "I don't want to be just another blade of grass."

  Simone de Beauvoir

  World, Green, Want

  "All Men are Mortal". Book by Simone de Beauvoir, 1946.

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• I would never build a lawn trimmer," Myrnin said. "What did the lawn ever do to me?

  Rachel Caine

  Said, Myrnin

  Rachel Caine (2010). “Ghost Town”, p.30, Allison & Busby

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• Sprawled out on the front lawn Looking up at an ordinary sky It could fall on me and somehow be The day I didn't die

  Nick Burd

  Fall, Sky, Ordinary

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• The sky was electric blue above the trees but the yard felt dark. Stephanie went to the edge of the lawn and sat her forehead on her knees. The grass and soil were still warm from the day. She wanted to cry but she couldn't. The feeling was too deep.

  Jennifer Egan

  Dark, Blue, Sky

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.102, Anchor

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• The lawn was white with doctors

  Sylvia Plath

  Doctors, White

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• When Isaiah predicted that spears would become pruning hooks, that's a reference to cultivating. Pruning and trimming and growing and paying close attention to the plants and whether they're getting enough water and if their roots are deep enough. Soil under the fingernails, grapes being trampled under bare feet, fingers sticky from handling fresh fruit. It's that green stripe you get around the sole of your shoes when you mow the lawn. Life in the age to come. Earthy.

  Rob Bell

  Shoes, Roots, Feet

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• He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back.

  Ray Bradbury

  Girl, Running, Doors

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.5, Hamilton Books

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• You probably love to tell kids to get off your lawn, too.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Kids

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• She sat in the dew-damp grass and ripped up clumps of it, tossing them in the air and feeling vaguely guilty about it. Some gnome ought to pop out of the tree and scold her for torturing the lawn.

  Holly Black

  Air, Tree, Feelings

  Holly Black (2012). “Tithe”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• The window gave onto a view of dove-gray roofs and balconies, each one containing the same cracked flowerpot and sleeping feline. It was as if the entire city of Paris had agreed to abide by a single understated taste. Each neighbor was doing his or her own to keep up standards, which was difficult because the French ideal wasn't clearly delineated like the neatness and greenness of American lawns, but more of a picturesque disrepair. It took courage to let things fall apart so beautifully.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Fall, Sleep, Views

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.136, Macmillan

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• A man could rant and smash and grapple with the State Police, and still the sprinklers whirled at dusk on every lawn and the television droned in every living room.

  Richard Yates

  Men, Police, Television

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• Yer a good lad, Atticus, mowin’ me lawn and killin’ what Brits come around.

  Kevin Hearne

  Lad, Brits

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.107, Del Rey

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• We don't really believe in mowing the lawn; we do it only to avoid unnecessary engagement with the neighbors.

  Miranda July

  Believe, Mowing, Engagement

  Miranda July (2007). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• Rose!" I looked to my right and saw Adrian cutting across the lawn toward me, oblivious to the slush's effects on his designer shoes. "Did you just call me 'Rose'?" I asked. "And not 'little dhampir'? I don't think that's ever happened." "It happens all the time," he countered, catching up to me.

  Richelle Mead

  Cutting, Thinking, Shoes

  Richelle Mead (2008). “Shadow Kiss: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.150, Penguin

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• Did you ever think that in a past life Alec was an old woman with ninety cats who was always yelling at the neighborhood kids to get off her lawn? Because I do.

  Cassandra Clare

  Cat, Kids, Past

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.845, Simon and Schuster

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• Arizonans should not be judged disdainfully and from a distance by people whose closest contacts with Hispanics are with fine men and women who trim their lawns and put plates in front of them at restaurants, not with illegal immigrants passing through their backyards at 3 A.M.

  George Will

  Distance, Men, People

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