“If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher.”
Debbie Macomber (1948) American writer
Source: Mrs. Miracle
“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.”
It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It (1988)
Context: 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.
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water wi…" by Robert Fulghum?
Robert Fulghum82
American writer 1937Related quotes
Yousef Munayyer American writer
In response over a video of a shooting by IDF soldiers on prostestors during the 2018 Gaza border protests. (April 10 2018) https://theintercept.com/2018/04/10/gaza-protests-palestine-israel-sniper-video/
“Where there is a fence, there is no terror. Where there's no fence, there is terror.”
Tzachi Hanegbi (1957) Israeli politician
Public radio, after the twin suicide bombings in Beer Sheva (August 31, 2004)
Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist
Evelyn Collier, Chapter 6, p. 103
2009, The Best of Me (2011)
Lalleshwari (1320–1392) Indian writer, mystic and saint
The Poems of Lal Ded, poem 59, p. 15
Poetry
“It is forbidden to walk on the grass. It is not forbidden to fly over the grass.”
Augusto Boal (1931–2009) Brazilian writer
Games for Actors and non-Actors (1992)
E. B. White (1899–1985) American writer
"Intimations" (December 1941)
One Man's Meat (1942)
Context: Before you can be an internationalist you have first to be a naturalist and feel the ground under you making a whole circle. It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members. A club, moreover, or a nation, has a most attractive offer to make: it offers the right to be exclusive. There are not many of us who are physically constituted to resist this strange delight, this nourishing privilege. It is at the bottom of all fraternities, societies, orders. It is at the bottom of most trouble. The planet holds out no such inducement. The planet is everybody's. All it offers is the grass, the sky, the water, the ineluctable dream of peace and fruition.