Quotes with grass-roots

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  • Günter Grass We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.
    Günter Grass
    German writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1999) (1927 - 2015)
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  • Günter Grass Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.
    Günter Grass
    German writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1999) (1927 - 2015)
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  • Bertrand Russell Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven.
    Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • William Wordsworth 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
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Malcolm X A man without any history is like a tree without roots.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Jonathan Swift And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Andy Rooney Anyone who likes golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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  • T. S. Eliot April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Günter Grass Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.
    Günter Grass
    German writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1999) (1927 - 2015)
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  • Günter Grass Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises.
    Günter Grass
    German writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1999) (1927 - 2015)
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  • Christina Rossetti Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget.
    Christina Rossetti
    British poet (1830 - 1894)
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  • Charles M. Schultz Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.
    Charles M. Schultz
    American cartoonist (1922 - 2000)
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  • Rupert Brooke Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill; Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.
    Rupert Brooke
    British poet (1887 - 1915)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Bill Rancic Chicago is seriously my favorite city in the country. People have roots here, which is nice. When you go to Los Angeles, no one is actually from Los Angeles.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Bill Rancic Dear Chicago, when I wake up in the morning and see your skyline - the terra cotta of the Wrigley Building, the height of the Willis Tower, the shiny sides of my beloved Trump Tower - I know I'm home. I feel a certain energy walking between your spires, but recognize that what makes you special to me is that my roots are here.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Theodore Roethke Deep in their roots all flowers keep the light.
    Theodore Roethke
    American poet (1908 - 1963)
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  • Burning Spear Dig into the roots of culture, and it will grow. It's like a grass that is growing, and it cannot stop, and music is like the fertilizer for that.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • Bob Hope Drugs are very much a part of professional sports today, but when you think about it, golf is the only sport where the players aren't penalized for being on grass.
    Bob Hope
    American comedian, actor (1903 - 2003)
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  • Joseph Conrad 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
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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