Best Grass Quotes

We are a nation of sheep, and someone else owns the grass.

We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us, like the grass which confesses the influence of the slightest dew that falls on it; and did not spend our time in atoning for the neglect of past opportunities, which we call doing our duty.

Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.

When one is overcome by this wretched, clinging desire in the world, one’s sorrows increase like grass growing up after a lot of rain.

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

If you meet a cross-eyed personyou must plunge into the grass,alongside the chilly ants,fish through the green fingernailsand come up with the four-leaf clover.

My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house. That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.

Pebble Beach is Alcatraz with grass.

In the story shoes are just a metaphor for what these girls go through…the grass is always greener and everyone always wants to be in somebody else’s shoes; they don’t want to be in their own.

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

I had a mini marathon once I landed the role – going from ‘Splendor in the Grass’ to ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ to ‘Shampoo’ to ‘Reds.’ I watched them back to back. I found that when you’re in the mood for ‘Reds,’ you’re not in the mood for ‘Shampoo.’

A rough should have high grass. When you go bowling they don’t give you anything for landing in the gutter, do they?

This soft grass suggests ‘softness’ to me, but also at the same time ‘lying-down-ness’.

When kids can’t afford to see it anymore maybe we’ll have a whole resurgence of garage bands all over America and this New Wave thing will start to mean something on a grass roots level.

And I’d like to give my love to everybody, and let them know that the grass may look greener on the other side, but believe me, it’s just as hard to cut.

The paired butterflies are already yellow with August Over the grass in the West garden; They hurt me. I grow older.

The older, thinner, and less productive grass lands, however, frequently can be made to produce much larger yields of feed in corn than if left, as they are, in unproductive grass.

I am a strong believer in grass roots communities, but I also believe government resources, when available, should be equally available to all people.

The fears of what may come to pass, I cast them all away, Among the clover scented grass, Among the new-mown hay.

Still, I look down, and the grass is so green, I cannot understand how it does not wither and die with sorrow. ~Song of the Sparrow

I’m sure that half the buzz from smoking grass was the fact that it was so illegal.

I like almost everything, even country twang, disco, blue grass and accordions.

Fellow from Texas can tell the difference between grass-roots and AstroTurf.

I look for the moment(s) in the story where the writer risked abandoning the glory of the self in favor of the possible relationship with an other. I don’t ever let the market tell me what a memoir is. The first best memoir I ever read was Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman.

Between the wolf in the tall grass and the wolf in the tall story there is a shimmering go-between. That go-between, that prism, is the art of literature.

Stone, steel, dominions pass, Faith too, no wonder; So leave alone the grass That I am under.

Never define your success by somebody else’s success. I never looked at another man’s grass to tell how green mine should be.

I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may.

There’s a snake hidden in the grass.

Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.

It is of the nature of idea to be communicated: written, spoken, done. The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on.

The spring has sprung, the grass is rizz. I wonder where them birdies is?

In the plains the grass grows tall, since there is no one to cut it. There is no one to water it either.

I ain’t the only old woman looking. I’m just the only one honest enough to admit it. The others just hire the boy to cut their grass so they can sit at the window and drool.

There’s a snake lurking in the grass.