Grass Quotes - Page 3

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.

There've been a lot more people hurt on astro-turf than grass.

Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible.

I'm Allergic to grass. Hey, it could be worse. I could be allergic to beer.

It was truly an astonishing grassroots explosion, ... The objective was to get a nationwide demonstration of concern for the environment so large that it would shake the political establishment out of its lethargy.

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content. One world is aware, and by the far the largest to me, and that is myself, And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness, I can wait.

O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?

From our broadcasting box you can't see any grass at all. It is simply a carpet of humanity.

If the grass is greener somewhere else...start watering your own lawn!

The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

Clear and sweet is my soul, clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.

Enthusiasm — real grassroots enthusiasm — trumps money, trumps endorsements, trumps everything.

I hope you came out to hear some bluegrass music. If you didn't, we're both in the wrong place.

The air was cold to the lungs, the long grass dripping wet, and the herbs on it gave out their spiced astringent scent. In a little while on all sides the Cicada would begin to sing. The grass was me , and the air, the distant invisible mountains were me, the tired oxen were me. I breathed with the slight night-wind in the thorn trees.

The grass is always greener over the septic tank.

Ah, I could lay me down in this long grass And close my eyes, and let the quiet wind Blow over me

Never overlook wallflower at dance; may be dandelion in grass.

Of course the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. Why do you think the neighbors put up the fence?

From the highest god to the meanest grass, the same power is present in all - whether manifested or not. We shall have to call forth that power by going from door to door.

Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.

Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

We should not let grass grow on the path of friendship.

It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.

I am the animal at the head of the pack. … I either get eaten, or I get the good grass.