Lawns Quotes - Page 7

• A Canadian newspaperman said yesterday that this is the President's "Easter egghead roll on the White House lawn." I want to deny that!

  John F. Kennedy

  Easter, White, Yesterday

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.347, Best Books on

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• Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know. I admire lolling on a lawn by a water-lilied pond to eat white currants and see goldfish: and go to the fair in the evening if I'm good. There is not hope for that -one is sure to get into some mess before evening.

  John Keats

  Book, Wine, Doors

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• The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn: the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me.

  James Russell Lowell

  Summer, July, Bees

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.382

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• Show me thy feet, show me thy legs, thy thighs
  Show me those fleshy principalities;
  Show me that hill where smiling love doth sit,
  Having a living fountain under it;
  Show me thy waist, then let me there withal,
  By the ascension of thy lawn, see all.

  Robert Herrick

  Sexy, Feet, Legs

  Robert Herrick (1898). “The Hesperides & Noble Numbers”

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• The Cowboy's defense has more holes in it than Ronny Milsapp and Jose Feliciano after a game of lawn darts.

  Dennis Miller

  Football, Cowboy, Games

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• Go, little book, and wish to all
  Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall,
  A bin of wine, a spice of wit,
  A house with lawns enclosing it,
  A living river by the door,
  A nightingale in the sycamore!

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Flower, Book, Wine

  'Underwoods' (1887) 'Envoy'.

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• The American lawn uses more resources than any other agricultural industry in the world. It uses more phosphates than India and puts on more poisons than any other form of agriculture.

  Bill Mollison

  Agriculture, India, Poison

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• I don't force it. If you don't have an idea and you don't hear anything going over and over in your head, don't sit down and try to write a song. You know, go mow the lawn...My songs speak for themselves.

  Neil Young

  Song, Writing, Ideas

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• My treasure chest is filled with gold.
  Gold . . . gold . . . gold . . .
  Vagabond's gold and drifter's gold . . .
  Worthless, priceless, dreamer's gold . . .
  Gold of the sunset . . . gold of the dawn . . .Gold of the showertrees on my lawn . . .
  Poet's gold and artist's gold . . .
  Gold that can not be bought or sold -
  Gold.

  Don Blanding

  Sunset, Artist, Dreamer

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• Soon we will plunge ourselves into cold shadows, and all of summer's stunning afternoons will be gone. I already hear the dead thuds of logs below falling on the cobblestones and the lawn.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Summer, Fall, Autumn

  Charles Baudelaire, “Chant D'Automne (Song Of Autumn)”

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• A man who took great pride in his lawn found himself with a large crop of dandelions. He tried every method he knew to get rid of them. Still they plagued him. Finally he wrote the department of agriculture. He enumerated all the things he had tried and closed his letter with the question: "What shall I do now?" In due course the reply came: "We suggest you learn to love them."

  Anthony de Mello

  Spiritual, Pride, Men

  Anthony De Mello (2016). “The Song of the Bird”, p.65, Image

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• "I want to be a lawn." Greta Garbo.

  W. C. Sellar

  Nature, Want, Garbo

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• Was it a camp?" Daniel asked. Sean nodded. "A naturist camp." "Maya will feel right at home", Corey said from his spot on a wooden lawn chair. Daniel sputtered a laugh and Sean tried to hide his. "Naturist, not naturalist," I said. "It means nudist." Corey leaped up and spun. "You mean old, naked butts sat on those chairs?

  Kelley Armstrong

  Home, Mean, Laughing

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• I am not a religious man. I have not attended a service for many years. But I do believe in God. My own practice of religion, you could say, it a nonpractice. I personally feel that it's just as worthy on a weekend to rake the lawns of an elderly neighbor or to climb a mountain and marvel at the beauty of this land we live in as it is to sing hosannas or go to Mass. In other words, I think every many finds his own church- and not all of them have four walls - Judge Haig (Page 399)

  Jodi Picoult

  Religious, Wall, Believe

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.359, Simon and Schuster

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• Boys everywhere. All seven of them plus their dad, running and laughing and shoving each other around on the front lawn, engaged in what appeared to be a full-contact, tackle version of ultimate Frizbee. They were playing shirts and skins. Shirts and might-fine-lookin' skins.

  Kate Brian

  Running, Dad, Boys

  Kate Brian (2008). “Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• The castle grounds were gleaming in the sunlight as though freshly painted; the cloudless sky smiled at itself in the smoothly sparkling lake, the satin-green lawns rippled occasionally in a gentle breeze: June had arrived.

  J. K. Rowling

  Summer, Lakes, June

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• Do not worry too much about your lawn. You will soon find if you haven't already that almost every adult American devotes tremendous time and money to the maintenance of an invasive plant species called turf grass that we can't eat. I encourage you to choose better obsessions.

  John Green

  Inspirational, Graduation, Worry

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• I am not a lover of lawns. Rather would I see daisies in their thousands, ground ivy, hawkweed, and even the hated plantain with tall stems, and dandelions with splendid flowers and fairy down, than the too - well-tended lawn.

  William Henry Hudson

  Nature, Flower, Ivy

  William Henry Hudson (1923). “The Collected Works of W. H. Hudson: The book of a naturalist”

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• To see human beings in agony, to see them covered in blood and to hear their death groans, makes people humble. It makes their spirits delicate, bright, peaceful. It's never at such times that we become cruel or bloodthirsty. No, it's on a beautiful spring afternoon like this that people suddenly become cruel. It's at a moment like this, don't you think, while one's vaguely watching the sun as it peeps through the leaves of the trees above a well-mown lawn? Every possible nightmare in the world, every possible nightmare in history, has come into being like this.

  Yukio Mishima

  Beautiful, Spring, Humble

  Yukio Mishima (2011). “The Temple of the Golden Pavilion”, p.95, Tuttle Publishing

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• I just listened to the music, and breathed in the day, and remembered things. Things like walking around the neighborhood and looking at the houses and the lawns and the colorful trees and having that be enough.

  Stephen Chbosky

  House, Tree, Enough

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.

  Alexander Pope

  Daughter, Nature, Light

  Alexander Pope (1967). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.152, Lulu.com

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• I believe the religion of Christ covers the whole man. Why shouldn't a man play baseball or lawn-tennis? ... Don't imagine that you have got to go into a cave to be consecrated, and stay there all your life. Whatever you take up, take it up with all your heart.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Baseball, Believe, Heart

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• I don't want to sound like some grumpy old man telling you to get off my lawn.

  Michael Wilbon

  Men, Sound, Want

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• The government could take away all the drugs in the world and people would spin around on their lawns until they fell down and saw God.

  Dennis Miller

  Government, People, Drug

  Dennis Miller (2010). “Rants”, p.34, Main Street Books

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• Oh, when I was a kid, I was poor. Christmas, I got no presents. Well, there was one Christmas, on our front lawn - Prancer and Dancer - they dropped off a little something.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Kids, Dancer, Littles

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