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It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. -- Muhammad Ali
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. -- Hal Borland
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. -- Walt Whitman
If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts. -- Camille Paglia
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. -- Helen Keller
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.' -- Harmon Killebrew
I've always said that one night, I'm going to find myself in some field somewhere, I'm standing on grass, and it's raining, and I'm with the person I love, and I know I'm at the very point I've been dreaming of getting to. -- Drew Barrymore
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls. -- Mother Teresa
Grass is growing on the Front Bench. -- Nancy Astor
Grass grows at last above all graves. -- Julia Caroline Dorr
A narrow Fellow in the Grass Occasionally rides -- Emily Dickinson
Grass is always greener on your side, just switch places with your neighbor. -- Saru Singhal
Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects. -- Oscar Wilde
Grass probably helped me as much as it hurt me. Especially as a performer. -- George Carlin
I was about 13 or 14 when I heard Malcolm X's speech 'Message to the Grass Roots.' -- Ta-Nehisi Coates
Grass is a surface I have always loved, Wimbledon is a tournament I have always loved. -- Steffi Graf
We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Suspension of disbelief and that whole question is part of the heart of the 'Leaves of Grass'movie. -- Edward Norton
It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards. -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson
I tried to film 'Leaves of Grass' in Oklahoma, but it was literally about a million dollars less to shoot in Louisiana. -- Tim Blake Nelson
I hope Gunter Grass will continue helping the SPD in campaigns and that he will otherwise remain with us as a provocative literary figure, as well. -- Sigmar Gabriel
The best thing I ever heard was in the '60s. I heard Jimi Hendrix play 'I Can Hear The Grass Grow' after a rehearsal, and it was brilliant. -- Roy Wood
Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do. -- Karel Capek
Grass that is here today and gone tomorrow does not require much time to mature. A giant oak tree that lasts for generations requires much more time to grow strong. -- Henry T. Blackaby
Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life. -- Charles M. Schulz
There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me. -- Thomas Jefferson
God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens. -- Andy Rooney
Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow. -- Khalil Gibran
Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass. -- Rupert Brooke
From our broadcasting box you can't see any grass at all. It is simply a carpet of humanity. -- Richie Benaud
Every blade of grass has its Angel that bends over it and whispers, "Grow, grow." - The Talmud -- Sapphire
I asked the waiter, 'Is this milk fresh?' He said, 'Lady, three hours ago it was grass.' -- Phyllis Diller
In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak. -- James Russell Lowell
There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice. -- John Calvin
The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. -- Henry Miller
Green is my favorite. And it's my favorite because it's the color of my wife's eyes, grass, trees, life, and money, and mother earth! -- Casper Van Dien
To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes. -- Thomas Carlyle
I love to promote our sport. I love grass-roots tennis. I love coaching. I love all parts of the sport. I love the business side. -- Billie Jean King
Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by. -- Mahmoud Darwish
People often ask me whether I prefer theater or film, and the answer is that I prefer the one I'm not doing: The grass is always greener. -- Helen Mirren
Sometimes I daydream about having a farm and a wife and some babies and watching the grass grow, but you have to meet the right person for that. -- Conor Oberst
Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him. -- Ernest Hemingway
I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one's mind. -- Annie Dillard
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. -- John Steinbeck
Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life. -- Joseph Conrad
I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies. -- Boris Pasternak
If you want to relax, watch the clouds pass by if you're laying on the grass, or sit in front of the creek; just doing nothing and having those still moments is what really rejuvenates the body. -- Miranda Kerr
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. -- John Lubbock
You gotta bear in mind, the youth - and this is just in Britain alone - have nowhere to go in the evenings. They've closed all the social centers. There's not even a patch of grass to kick a ball on. -- John Lydon
That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. -- William Wordsworth
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. -- Eleonora Duse
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. -- Eleonora Duse
I love the water. Everything about it. Smelling the humidity in the air, seeing the mist rise in the morning, feeling the dew-wet grass on my bare feet. I love watching the fish jump and the geese land. We even have an eagle here that circles every so often. -- Lori Foster
When I do stand-up for a long time, I'll get burned out, then I'll get an acting gig. For me, the grass is always greener. I'd like to do a mixture of all of it. My goal is just to do small movies that I've written. That's what I'm trying to do now, just write smaller movies. -- Zach Galifianakis
The grass is always greener on the other side. We are busy applying fairness creams while people in the West go bare-bodied on the beach to get a tan. Indian girls have ruled the roost when it comes to beauty pageants. I flaunt my complexion, and I am proud to be noticed as an Indian wherever I go. -- Shilpa Shetty
I grew up in New Mexico, and the older I get, I have less need for contemporary culture and big cities and all the stuff we are bombarded with. I am happier at my ranch in the middle of nowhere watching a bug carry leaves across the grass, listening to silence, riding my horse, and being in open space. -- Tom Ford
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. -- Eckhart Tolle
There is a part of me that will forever want to be walking under autumn leaves, carrying a briefcase containing the works of Shakespeare and Yeats and a portable chess set. I will pass an old tree under which once on a summer night I lay on the grass with a fragrant young woman and we quoted e.e. cummings back and forth. -- Roger Ebert
She eats grass. Don't ask. -- Ilona Andrews
Please keep off the grass. -- Peter Ustinov
Pebble Beach is Alcatraz with grass. -- Bob Hope
Duty grows everywhere--like children, like grass. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible. -- Jill Lepore
Its great grass at Anfield, professional grass. -- Bill Shankly
We're not raising grass. We're raising boys. -- Harmon Killebrew
While the grass groweth the horse starveth. -- John Heywood
There's a snake lurking in the grass. -- Virgil
Green grass grows where dry desert ends. -- Og Mandino
There's a snake hidden in the grass. -- Virgil
When the wind blows,the grass bends. -- Confucius
If there's grass in the field, play ball! -- William J. Clinton
A storm breaks trees. It only bends grass. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Lilly-flowers nodded their half-opened heads in the grass. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
I can't sit on grass without a blanket. -- Tia Carrere
In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing -- T. S. Eliot
To rid the grass of weed, to get -- Lucien Stryk
I guess the grass is always greener elsewhere. -- Gilles Marini
Trees have judicial standing, and probably grass too. -- William O. Douglas
Wherever the Turkish hoof trods, no grass grows. -- Victor Hugo
Snakes hide in grass, people behind their lies. -- nopain
Everybody always thinks the grass is always greener. -- Patrick Ewing
Thirst is a language even the grass understands. -- Marty Rubin
The landscape looks different from every blade of grass. -- Marty Rubin
The grass is always greener around the fire hydrant. -- Jeff Rich
New Zealand has incredible global recognition for grass-fed livestock. -- Joel Salatin
The heart of a grass-roots campaign is the ownership. -- Ted Cruz
Human: That's stupid. Isn't there grass on both sides? -- Orson Scott Card
Under the pavement the dirt is dreaming of grass. -- Wendell Berry
The grass is always greener over the septic tank. -- Erma Bombeck
The grass isn't always greener on the other side! -- Ricky Gervais
How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green! -- William Shakespeare
I love tennis, but I just don't like grass. -- Marat Safin
I'm involved in issues, and issues are about grass-roots politics. -- J. B. Pritzker
A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. -- Henry David Thoreau
Parks are but pavement disguised with a growth of grass. -- George Gissing
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Mother cow expects from us nothing but grass and grain. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The grass is always greener when it's covered in money. -- Craig Benzine
Wait a minute! This is grass! We've been eating grass! -- Gary Larson
Never overlook wallflower at dance; may be dandelion in grass. -- Confucius
I was always a 'grass is greener' kind of guy. -- Joe Buck
I don't want to be just another blade of grass. -- Simone de Beauvoir
It's good to touch the green, green grass of home -- Tom Jones
Robust grass endures mighty winds; loyal ministers emerge through ordeal. -- William Shakespeare
No one thinks of winter when the grass is green. -- Rudyard Kipling
To kill the grass you must also remove the root -- Pol Pot
Where the grass is greener, the water bill is bigger. -- Rick Warren
If grass were legalized, it would help our drug problem enormously. -- Ken Kesey
The green grass floweth like a stream Into the oceans's blue. -- James Russell Lowell
Reading Chaucer is like brushing through the dewy grass at sunrise. -- James Russell Lowell
The grass withers, the flower fades, but Cosmic Ordering stands forever. -- Stephen Richards
Fellow from Texas can tell the difference between grass-roots and AstroTurf. -- Lloyd Bentsen
Acid, booze, and ass, needles, guns, and grass, lots of laughs. -- Joni Mitchell
Ach, Rangers are alright, but they still haven't invented blue grass. -- Jock Stein
When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth -- Chinua Achebe
There've been a lot more people hurt on astro-turf than grass. -- Ken Kesey
Baseball is sunshine, green grass, fathers and sons, our rural past. -- Albert Theodore Powers
.... all blades of grass, wood, and stone, all things are One. -- Meister Eckhart
The fulness of the godhead dwelt in every blade of grass. -- Elias Hicks

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