Grass Quotes

Our forest policy is not to preserve forests because they are beautiful—though that is a good in itself—not to preserve them because they are refuges for wild creatures of the wilderness—though that is a good in itself—but rather to conserve them in order to guarantee a steady and continuous supply of timber, grass, and above all, water.

Everybody always thinks the grass is always greener.

We'll eat grass, but we'll make a nuclear bomb.

If India builds the bomb we will eat grass or leaves, we will go hungry. But we will get one of our own.

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.

We can better see what we don't have. The other man's grass is always greener and now we can actually go and visit his grass much more and feel the absence of green in our own lives.

The grass as bristly and stout as chives and me wondering when the ground will break and me wondering how anything fragile survives

We'll all be equal under the grass, and God's got a heaven for country trash.

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. Change may be announced by a small ache, so that you think you're catching cold. Or you may feel a faint disgust for something you loved yesterday. It may even take the form of a hunger that peanuts won't satisfy. Isn't overeating said to be one of the strongest symptoms of discontent. And isn't discontent the lever of change?

Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.

HELPED are those who lose their fear of death; theirs is the power to envision the future in a blade of grass.

The grass isn't always greener on the other side. I start off kind of in love and then I leave love and I'm single.

The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. No, not at all. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.

If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.

Grass is growing on the Front Bench.

I always knew that someday I would once again feel the grass under my feet and walk in the sunshine as a free man.

Natural grass is a wonderful thing for little bugs and sinkerball pitchers.

Wait a minute! This is grass! We've been eating grass!

Under the pavement the dirt is dreaming of grass.

But still, the other voice, the intuitive, returns, like grass forcing its way through concrete.

By some chance, here they are, all on this earth; and who shall ever tell the sorrow of being on this earth, lying, on quilts, on the grass in a summer evening, among the sounds of the night. May God bless my people, my uncle, my aunt, my mother, my good father, oh, remember them kindly in their time of trouble; and in the hour of their taking away.

A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.

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

We're not raising grass. We're raising boys.