Grass Quotes - page 21

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)
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. View quote
Stephen Spender
Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower. View quote
William Wordsworth
My apprehensions come in crowds I dread the rustling of the grass The very shadows of the clouds Have power to shake me as they pass I question things and do not find One that will answer to my mind And all the world appears unkind. View quote
William Wordsworth
Humans! They lived in the world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly turned into fruit, and what impressed them? Weeping statues. And wine made out of water! A mere quantum-mechanistic tunnel effect, that'd happen anyway if you were prepared to wait zillions of years. As if the turning of sunlight into wine, by means of vines and grapes and time and anzymes, wasn't a thousand times more impressive and happened all the time... View quote
Terry Pratchett
We can't depend on the Democrats ... They got there and betrayed the grass roots that put them there. View quote
Cindy Sheehan
I read like an animal. I read under the covers, I read lying in the grass, I read at the dinner table. While other people were talking to me, I read. View quote
Nicole Krauss
Jews have always thought that having someone elevated with his head above the grass was not good for the Jews. I never felt that way. I believe that you have to stand up. View quote
Ed Koch
The Surface Stations site has been up two days now, and I'm getting hundreds of registrations across the country from people wanting to get involved in the grass roots effort to photograph, measure, catalog and contribute to the database of weather stations. I'm getting inquires from Congress, Policy think tanks, and bloggers worldwide... I've been invited to submit a research paper, and I'm having a lot of fun too. Now I know why I lost the school board election, it was to give me time to do this. Everything happens for a reason. View quote
Anthony Watts
We are the fed up grass roots movement of goose flesh, hell bent on living this one life by the way we feel our spines, saying what we mean, refusing to allow the few to preach to the many when it is the many who need to be hearing eachother. View quote
Buddy Wakefield
In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass. (Bill Vaughan)
Once you've learned to study in a bathing suit on the grass with muscled men throwing frisbees over your head, you can accomplish almost anything. View quote
Susan Rice
Then, cleaving the grass, gazelles appear (The gentler dolphins of kindlier waves) With sensitive heads alert of ear; Frail crowds that a delicate hearing saves. View quote
Thomas Sturge Moore
He was, she thought, as beautiful as a young god, lying on his side among the grass and flowers. View quote
Alice Borchardt
I like grass, I enjoy it and it suits my game. View quote
Andy Roddick
Research is a scientific activity dedicated to discovering what makes grass green. View quote
Russell Baker
If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning. View quote
Vincent van Gogh
I found every breath of air, and every scent, and every flower and leaf and blade of grass and every passing cloud, and everything in nature, more beautiful and wonderful to me than I had ever found it yet. This was my first gain from my illness. How little I had lost, when the wide world was so full of delight for me. View quote
Charles Dickens
It was a very aged, ghostly place the church had been built many hundreds of years ago, and had once had a convent or monastery attached for arches in ruins, remains of oriel windows, and fragments of blackened walls, were yet standing-, while other portions of the old building, which had crumbled away and fallen down, were mingled with the churchyard earth and overgrown with grass, as if they too claimed a burying-place and sought to mix their ashes with the dust of men. View quote
Charles Dickens
In this way they went on, and on, and on--in the language of the story-books--until at last the village lights appeared before them, and the church spire cast a long reflection on the graveyard grass as if it were a dial (alas, the truest in the world) marking, whatever light shone out of Heaven, the flight of days and weeks and years, by some new shadow on that solemn ground. View quote
Charles Dickens
What are the ingredients of the most creatively meaningful image of human existence that the mind can conceive? Remove human frailty--as grass, as a sigh, as dust, as moth-crushed--and the estimate becomes romantic. Remove grandeur--a little lower than God--and aspiration recedes. Remove sin-the tendency to miss the mark--and sentimentality threatens. Remove freedom--choose ye this day!--and responsibility goes by the board. Remove, finally, divine parentage and life becomes estranged, cut loose and adrift on a cold, indifferent sea. With all that has been discovered about human life in the intervening 2,500 years, it is difficult to find a flaw in this assessment. (Huston Smith)
I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process. View quote
Eckhart Tolle
God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart. View quote
Edna St. Vincent Millay
I see the rainbow in the sky, the dew upon the grass I see them, and I ask not why they glimmer or they pass. With folded arms I linger not to call them back twere vain In this, or in some other spot, I know theyll shine again. View quote
Walter Savage Landor
Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now? View quote
Alan Bennett