(58 quotes found)
“In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight”
Rabindranath Tagore
“Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, 'Grow, grow.'”
The Talmud
“Whereat, with blade, with bloody blameful blade,He bravely broached his boiling bloody breast.”
William Shakespeare
“One, two! One, two! and through and through / The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!/ He left it dead, and with its head / He went galumphing back.”
Lewis Carroll
“An Irishman is never drunk as long as - He can hold onto one blade of grass and not - Fall off the face of the earth”
Old Irish toast
“There seemed to be some heavenly support beneath his shoulder blades that lifted his feet from the ground in ecstatic suspension, as if he secretly enjoyed the ability to fly but was walking as a compromise to convention.”
Zelda Fitzgerald
“Jolly boating weather, / And a hay harvest breeze, / Blade on the feather, / Shade off the trees.”
William Johnson Cory
“Be humble as the blade of grass that is being trodden underneath the feet. The little ant tastes joyously the sweetness of honey and sugar. The mighty elephant trembles in pain under the agony of sharp goad.”
John Ruskin
“Scissors with blades less than four inches (10 centimeters) long and tools like screwdrivers, wrenches, pliers that are less than seven inches (18 centimeters) will be removed from the prohibited items list on December 22.”
Kip Hawley
“A blade of grass is light, cotton is lighter, the beggar is infinitely lighter still. Why then does not the wind carry him away? Because it fears that he may ask alms of him.”
Chanakya
