(267 quotes found)
“Grass grows by inches but it's killed by feet.”
George Thoma
“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
“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
“The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.”
English Proverb
“In creating, the only hard thing's to begin; A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak”
James Russell Lowell
“May you live to see the green grass growing over your grave.”
Frank Richard Stockton
“I have been here before./ But when or how I cannot tell:/ I know the grass beyond the door,/ The sweet keen smell,/ The sighing sound, the lights around the shore.”
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
“The tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut by the scythe.”
Russian Proverb
“If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.”
Camille Paglia
“The fountain is my speech. The tulips are my speech. The grass and trees are my speech.”
George T. Delacorte
