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I'm a big 'Goosebumps' fan - 'Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes.' My favorites are the pick-your-own-death ones. -- Tyler, The Creator
The tranquility of my room partakes too much of Forest Lawn. -- Mason Cooley
I wish I'd not taken off all my clothes in my first television series, 'The Camomile Lawn.' -- Jennifer Ehle
Lawn as white as driven snow; Cyprus black as e'er was crow; Gloves as sweet as damask roses. -- William Shakespeare
It's pretty cool to be able to hang out with the President and have the race-winning car on the South Lawn. -- Buddy Rice
... what's in a person's heart and soul will not likely be changed by the ability to command a helicopter to land on the South Lawn. -- Robert Dallek
Another day it occurred to me that time as we know it doesn't exist in a lawn, since grass never dies or is allowed to flower and set seed. Lawns are nature purged of sex or death. No wonder Americans like them so much. -- Michael Pollan
A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule. -- Michael Pollan
Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life. -- Charles M. Schulz
My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance. -- Tim Allen
I spend hours mowing the lawn in absolutely straight lines on my tractor. If it's not right, I do it again. -- Britt Ekland
I enjoy painting, cutting the lawn and working in the garden when I have time. That's therapy for me. I enjoy working with my hands. -- Billy Williams
This generation should entertain this generation. It's only fair. When I was a kid, I mowed the lawn. Now, somebody else's kid can mow the lawn. -- Tom T. Hall
My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts - with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist - outside on the church lawn. -- Tori Amos
The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn. -- Hunter S. Thompson
I grew up at my grandmother's house and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you're a kid. -- Elton John
I haven't mowed a lawn in quite a while, but I remember hating that when I was growing up. To please Dad, you have to get it right, and that's the thing. You have to please Dad. -- Brendon Urie
The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady. -- Richard M. Nixon
I have to say I've worked very few days of my life. I used to have to cut the lawn, and when I was in junior high school, I worked at a concession stand at a stadium. -- Steve Nash
Good people don't spend their time being good. Good people want to spend their time mowing the lawn and playing with the dog. But bad people spend all their time being bad. It is all they think about. -- Alan Furst
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I wanted the influence. In the end I wasn't very good at being a president. I looked out of the window and thought that the man cutting the lawn actually seemed to have more control over what he was doing. -- Warren Bennis
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In September 1993, President Clinton presided over a handshake between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat on the White House lawn - the climax of a 'day of awe,' as the press described it. -- Noam Chomsky
I grew up at my grandmother's house, and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you're a kid. I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. -- Elton John
I think I've always been drawn to the second person. When I was growing up and playing with my friends, the usual way we interacted with imaginary worlds was as characters: a bench was 'your' boat, leaves on a lawn were the fins of sharks out to get 'you.' -- Mohsin Hamid
As a composer and as a musician I'm a true believer - and this is not to be overly diplomatic - I'm a believer that there's artistry in everything from a lawn gnome to a desk chair to a symphony to an Andy Warhol painting. There's art in absolutely everything. -- Darren Criss
According to the U.N., more than 2.7 billion people will face severe water shortages by 2025. Many social scientists predict that the next big wars will be over water. Nevertheless, the average American family blissfully consumes 300 gallons a day, when you add in watering the lawn and washing dishes, clothes, and cars. -- Alex Shoumatoff
My husband and I have, in some ways, a non-traditional relationship - especially when it comes to domestic duties. He does most of the cooking, dishes, and laundry, while I do most of the yard work. I love to mow the lawn! And I take great satisfaction in planting and pruning. -- Therese Fowler
If the guy out in the woods with the Michigan Militia is a real estate negotiator, instead of some crackpot, and has a normal life, that's unnerving. You don't want to think it's as normal as the guy next door, hedging his lawn. It's easier to demonize or separate them off from 'us.' -- Michael Moore
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My parents were kind of over protective people. Me and my sister had to play in the backyard all the time. They bought us bikes for Christmas but wouldn't let us ride in the street, we had to ride in the backyard. Another Christmas, my dad got me a basketball hoop and put it in the middle of the lawn! You can't dribble on grass. -- Jimmy Fallon
I mow my own lawn. -- Ron Reagan
The lawn was white with doctors -- Sylvia Plath
You don't mow another man's lawn! -- Billie Joe Armstrong
Mowing your lawn is against nature. -- Rufus Wainwright
"I want to be a lawn." Greta Garbo. -- W. C. Sellar
They kind of look like evil lawn gnomes -- Cassandra Clare
Guy Fieri's hair is the front lawn to hell. -- Willie Geist
The fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn. -- A. E. Housman
A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn. -- Alexander Pope
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Out on the lawn I lie in bed, Vega conspicuous overhead. -- W. H. Auden
Why did God create men? Because vibrators can't mow the lawn. -- Madonna Ciccone
Mow the carpet, vacuum the lawn, and make love like war. -- Jarod Kintz
You probably love to tell kids to get off your lawn, too. -- Jeaniene Frost
If the grass is greener somewhere else...start watering your own lawn! -- Michael Beckwith
Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn. -- Kate Bernheimer
Interspersed in lawn and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades. -- Alexander Pope
The banker rubs his nose, thinking of his cat stalking something on the lawn. -- Mason Cooley
The grass is always greener once you don't have to mow a lawn anymore. -- R. K. Milholland
If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn. -- Andrew Mason
I always thought a yard was three feet, then I started mowing the lawn. -- Lettie Cowman
I still help out with the garbage. I still help out with the lawn. -- Taylor Lautner
God will not speak to me and tell me to mow my lawn today. -- Ian Bogost
Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn. -- Alexander Pope
Crabgrass is aptly descriptive of this hated weed, for it does scuttle quickly through a lawn. -- Allen Lacy
Yer a good lad, Atticus, mowinâ?? me lawn and killinâ?? what Brits come around. -- Kevin Hearne
[On Dashiell Hammett:] ... he is so hard-boiled you could roll him on the White House lawn. -- Dorothy Parker
I know a man who is a diamond cutter. He mows the lawn at Yankee Stadium. -- Henny Youngman
I'm a baseball player. I'm also a guy who mows his lawn and plays with his dog. -- Scott Rolen
I would never build a lawn trimmer," Myrnin said. "What did the lawn ever do to me? -- Rachel Caine
They're a rotten crowd', I shouted across the lawn. 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
I use a pick in my hair without force. You use a lawn mower-you got peat moss. -- Extra P
Either Matt was outside , or he was weirdly ordering me to have an orgasm on the lawn. -- M. Pierce
You just may be a redneck if your lawn furniture used to be your living room furniture. -- Jeff Foxworthy
A rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers. -- Edward Abbey
I don't want to sound like some grumpy old man telling you to get off my lawn. -- Michael Wilbon
My bodyguard was mowing the lawn in a pink bikini when the body fell from the sky. -- Charlaine Harris
When I'm looking for an idea, I'll do anything--clean the closet, mow the lawn, work in the garden. -- Kevin Henkes
If I ever wanted a gnome, I guess Id just stand out on my lawn for a while. -- Johnny Christ
The key to a nice-looking lawn is a good mower. I recommend one who is muscular and shirtless. -- Maxine
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You might be a redneck if it's easier to spray weed killer on your lawn than mow it. -- Jeff Foxworthy
I'm that grumpy old guy yelling at all those pesky little Grizzly Bear fans to get offa my lawn. -- Chuck Eddy
We don't really believe in mowing the lawn; we do it only to avoid unnecessary engagement with the neighbors. -- Miranda July
We made love like two folding lawn chairs. We were both motionless, but the possibility of movement permeated the moment. -- Jarod Kintz
Have you seen McConaughey in 'Unsolved Mysteries?' Even back then, it's a great performance! And he's mowing the lawn. -- Cary Fukunaga
The Cowboy's defense has more holes in it than Ronny Milsapp and Jose Feliciano after a game of lawn darts. -- Dennis Miller
A sweet disorder in the dress Kindles in clothes a wantonness A lawn about the shoulders thrown Into a fine distraction; -- Robert Herrick
The man who worries morning and night about the dandelions in the lawn will find great relief in loving the dandelions. -- Liberty Hyde Bailey
Her lawn looks like a meadow, And if she mows the place She leaves the clover standing And the Queen Anne's Lace. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Everybody knows how lazy he is. One day the neighbors saw Fang mow the lawn and I got three Get Well cards. -- Phyllis Diller
When I won the Derby on Never Say Die I went home and cut the lawn. I haven't cut the lawn since. -- Lester Piggott
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
She wakes in a puddle of sunlight.Her hands asleep beside her.Her hair draped on the lawn like a mantle of cloth. -- Roman Payne
After President Obama, President Rodriguez... What's the worse that can happen? The border problem gets solved and the White House lawn looks better? -- Christopher Titus
Grow the lawn and mow the lawn always keep the TV on, brush your teeth and kill the germs, poison apples, poison worms. -- Trenton Lee Stewart
Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain -- Jack Kerouac
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
One legged veterans will greet the dawn, and they're whistling marches as they mow the lawn, and the gargoyles on sit and grieve. -- Phil Ochs
Beer bottles, whiskey bottles, brown glass, green. They fell to the lawn and I'd feel serene. Adam was king to my stilted queen. -- Kate Bernheimer
Alexia, did you know there is an entire regiment decamping on your front lawn? Laddy Maccon sighed. "Really, Ivy, I would never have noticed. -- Gail Carriger
It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawn mower, snowblower and vacuum cleaner. -- Ben Berger
A tortoise is, I suppose, a Jewish pet. It knows its place. Out on the lawn. It doesn't bark. It doesn't tear the Dralon. -- Maureen Lipman
Sprawled out on the front lawn Looking up at an ordinary sky It could fall on me and somehow be The day I didn't die -- Nick Burd
My mother was a very elegant woman. When a flying saucer landed on the lawn, she turned it over to see if it was Wedgwood. -- Joan Rivers
Reeducation needs careful tending, like an English lawn. Even one moment of negligence, and the weeds crop up again ~ those indestructible weeds of historical truth. -- Sefton Delmer
Why do we fear the dark as unavoidable defeat when it alone is constant, and we'd starve if it stopped watering the lawn of dreams. -- Rosmarie Waldrop
Someone can break your heart, leave you dead on the lawn, and still you never learn what to say to stop it all over again. -- Daniel Handler
The thing I love is that my home life hasn't changed. I still help out with the garbage. I still help out with the lawn. -- Taylor Lautner
This was an away-day for the deputy prime minister's staff, who've had a change of responsibilities [on John Prescott's scandalous playing habits... on the croquet lawn] -- Paul Clark
But times are alter'd; trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain; Along the lawn, where scatter'd hamlets rose, Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Society is like a lawn, where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface -- Washington Irving
It's not that the grass is greener on the other side, it's that you can never be on both sides of the lawn at the same time. -- Laura Fraser
All of Dad's relationships ended exactly the same: subpoena, beep of a moving van backing up the driveway, pile of his clothes burning on the front lawn. -- Christopher Titus
I just can't recruit where there's grass around. You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents. -- Al McGuire
Men throw huge shadows on the lawn, don't they? Then, all their lives, they try to run to fit the shadows. But the shadows are always longer. -- Ray Bradbury
A college president is like the lawn mower at a cemetary: he has a lot of people under him, but they don't pay much attention to him -- Steven Sample
No one wakes up and says, "Yay I get to mow the lawn!" But if I can find meaning there, then there's nowhere I can't find meaning. -- Ian Bogost
Once our idea of heaven meant all the dead relatives waiting on the kept lawn of the many mansions as if, suddenly sinless, they had nothing to do. ... -- Deborah Digges
Kids in Washington every year have the big Easter egg roll on the White House lawn. The kids found 300 Easter eggs. They also found about 10,000 missing Hillary emails. -- David Letterman
Denial is pushing something out of your awareness. Anything you hide in the basement has a way of burrowing under the house and showing up on the front lawn. -- Howard Sasportas
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You cutting the lawn, fixing the machines, all this leprous day and then more vodka, more soda and the pond forgiving our bodies, the pond sucking out the throb. -- Anne Sexton
A man could rant and smash and grapple with the State Police, and still the sprinklers whirled at dusk on every lawn and the television droned in every living room. -- Richard Yates
Sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet; Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn, The moans of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
It's hard and sometimes it's scary. It still amazes my mother. I went home for Christmas one year and there were fans all over the front lawn, hoping to see me. -- Luke Perry
When I was four or five years old, my grandfather showed me how to build things, paint, saw. Through years of fixing bikes, repairing lawn mowers, I learned how things work. -- Tony Fadell
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

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