Quotes about grass
A collection of quotes on the topic of grass.
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„Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.“
— Hal Borland American journalist and writer 1900 - 1978
Countryman: A Summary of Belief, Lippincott, 1965, p. 99
„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.“
— Vincent Van Gogh Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890) 1853 - 1890
„Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over.“
— Hayao Miyazaki Japanese animator, film director, and mangaka 1941
„Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.“
— Jack Kerouac American writer 1922 - 1969
Sometimes credited to Jack Kerouac, from his book The Dharma Bums. It is not a quote by Kerouac. It first appeared as a very brief description of The Dharma Bums in Esquire's list of "The 80 Best Books Every Man Should Read" in 2010: http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/g96/80-books/?slide=71. It was later copied by Kilburn Hall in his list of 30 "Books and Authors Every Man Should Read" which he first posted online in 2012: https://kilburnhall.wordpress.com/2012/03/17/the-books-and-authors-every-man-should-read/
Misattributed
„[On why criminals rob nice-looking houses] You come up on a house where the grass is this tall, and there's a dog chained to the clothesline, and a motor swinging in the tree, buddy, that's a house where a gun lives! And you want to find out what kind it is, just crawl through the window after dark.“
— Jeff Foxworthy American stand-up comedian 1958
Totally Committed (1998)
„Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.“
— Oscar Wilde, book The Canterville Ghost
Source: The Canterville Ghost http://www.planetmonk.com/wilde/savile/canterville.c1.html (1887)
„It covers your shame, keeps you from shivering.
Grass and water are the food it asks.
Who taught you, priest-man,
to feed this breathing thing to your thing of stone?“
— Lalleshwari Indian writer, mystic and saint 1320 - 1392
The Poems of Lal Ded, poem 59, p. 15
Poetry
„I am solitary as grass. What is it I miss?
Shall I ever find it, whatever it is?“
— Sylvia Plath American poet, novelist and short story writer 1932 - 1963
„A need to concentrate on each sound, so that every blade of grass would be as important as a flower.“
— Arvo Pärt Estonian composer 1935
Arvo Pärt: 24 Preludes for a Fugue http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0358947/ (DVD, 2002)
„We are a nation of sheep, and
someone else owns the grass.“
— George Carlin American stand-up comedian 1937 - 2008
„There is not one little blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.“
— John Calvin French Protestant reformer 1509 - 1564
Sermon Number 10 on I Corinthians, 698. As quoted in John Calvin: A Sixteenth-Century Portrait (1989) by William J. Bouwsma, pp. 134–135.
Epistles to the Corinthians
„So what if I'm smokin' weed onstage and doing what I gotta do? It's not me shooting nobody, stabbing nobody, killing nobody. It's a peaceful gesture and they have to respect that and appreciate that.“
— Snoop Dogg American rapper, singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor 1971
„I have just seen you go down the mountain.
I close the wicker gate in the setting sun.
The grass will be green again in coming spring,
But will the wanderer ever return?“
— Wang Wei a Tang dynasty Chinese poet, musician, painter, and statesman 699 - 759
"Departure" (trans. Robert Payne)
„For mum we're fly. What mum you don't know who am I? I am Józio. And this is my sister Rózia. Now we're fly in sky! There is better than mum. See how heads in ray. Clothes with lucifer light. And on my hand as butterfly airfoil in sky we have all what we want, every day other toy, where we go here is grass, where we touch here is a flower. But we have what we want, torture us boring and trepidation. Oh mum for Your children road to heaven has been closed! On Always!“
— Adam Mickiewicz, book Dziady
Do mamy lecim do mamy! Cóż to, mamo nie znasz Józia? Ja to Józio ja ten samy. A to moja siostra Rózia. My teraz w raju latamy, Tam nam lepiej niż u mamy. Patrz jakie główki w promieniu, Ubiór z jutrzenki światełka, A na oboim ramieniu Jak u motylków skrzydełka, w raju wszystkiego dostatek, Co dzień to inna zabawka, gdzie stąpim wypływa trawka, gdzie dotkniem rozkwita kwiatek. Lecz choć wszystkiego dostatek dręczy nad nuda i trwoga. Ach mamo dla twoich dziatek zamknięta do nieba droga!
Part two.
Dziady (Forefathers' Eve) http://www.ap.krakow.pl/nkja/literature/polpoet/mic_fore.htm
„I always knew that someday I would once again feel the grass under my feet and walk in the sunshine as a free man.“
— Nelson Mandela President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist 1918 - 2013
1990s, Long Walk to Freedom (1995)
„Ah, yet would God this flesh of mine might be
Where air might wash and long leaves cover me;
Where tides of grass break into foam of flowers,
Or where the wind's feet shine along the sea.“
— Algernon Charles Swinburne English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic 1837 - 1909
Laus Veneris.
Undated
„For my part, I love to stand foot to foot with an honest foeman. To open warfare, bold and true hearts raise no objections but the ground of quarrel. It is rather covert enmity which we have most cause to fear and best reason to loathe. That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass -- deadly to the incautious wayfarer.“
— Charles Spurgeon British preacher, author, pastor and evangelist 1834 - 1892
Baptismal Regeneration (1864) http://www.spurgeon.org/sermons/0573.htm