Quotes with meadow-grass

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Hal Borland For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence, and the denial falters in the face of evidence on every hand. In every tuft of grass, in every bird, in every opening bud, there it is.
    Hal Borland
    American author, journalist and naturalist
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  • Edna St. Vincent Millay God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    American poet (1892 - 1950)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Hell's brewin' dark sun's on the rise
    This storm'll blow through by and by
    House is on fire, Viper's in the grass
    A little revenge and this too shall pass.
    The Rising (2002) Lonesome Day
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • William Wordsworth How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Walt Whitman I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Camille Paglia If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • George Eliot If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the best of us walk about well wadded with stupidity.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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