Quotes with grass

Quotes 21 till 40 of 42.

  • Bill Vaughan In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Günter Grass Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in.
    Günter Grass
    German writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1999) (1927 - 2015)
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  • Muhammad Ali It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
    Muhammad Ali
    American Boxer (1942 - 2016)
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  • Allen Klein Like sheep that get lost nibbling away at the grass because they never look up, we often focus so much on ourselves and our problems that we get lost.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • Günter Grass Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.
    Günter Grass
    German writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1999) (1927 - 2015)
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  • Alexander Herzen Modern Western thought will pass into history and be incorporated in it, will have its influence and its place, just as our body will pass into the composition of grass, of sheep, of cutlets, and of men.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Bryan Callen My dad's idea of punishment was to dress me up in all green to disguise me as grass, and then throw me in the pasture. Cows bit me all over.
    Bryan Callen
    American stand-up comedian, actor, writer (1967 - )
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  • Ernest Hemingway 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
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Bayard Taylor Primrose-eyes each morning ope In their cool, deep beds of grass; Violets make the air that pass Tell-tales of their fragrant slope.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Karl Kraus Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Sir John Lubbock Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.
    Sir John Lubbock
    British statesman and banker (1834 - 1913)
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  • Mark Twain Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Günter Grass The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.
    Günter Grass
    German writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1999) (1927 - 2015)
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  • Aldous Huxley The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the grass grows, the sweeter is its flavor, and the more it nourishes.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bobby Seale They came down on us because we had a grass-roots, real people's revolution, complete with the programs, complete with the unity, complete with the working coalitions, where we crossed racial lines.
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle 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
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Buddy Wakefield We are the fed up grass roots movement of goose flesh, hell bent on living this one life by the way we feel our spines, saying what we mean, refusing to allow the few to preach to the many when it is the many who need to be hearing eachother.
    On Spoken Word Introduction (Some They Cant Contain)
    Buddy Wakefield
    American poet and actor (1974 - )
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  • Alexander Smith We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.
    Alexander Smith
    Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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  • Mother Teresa 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
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Alan Bennett Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
    Alan Bennett
    British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author (1934 - )
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