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Grass7 quotes
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. — Walt Whitman · 1855All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away. — 1st Peter 1:24 · 65If you desire what is good, the people will be good. The character of a ruler is like wind and that of the people is like grass. In whatever direction the wind blows the grass always bends. — Confucius · 221 BCGet off my lawn! — Walt Kowalski · 2008Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn. — Francis Bacon · 1625Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up? — D.H. Lawrence · 1920All 7 quotes →Big vs. small1 quote
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. — Walt Whitman · 1855Circle of life1 quote
Dies, all dies!
The grass it dies, but in vernal rain
Up it springs and it lives again;
Over and over, again and again
It lives, it dies and it lives again. — Herman Melville · 1891Ephemeral nature of life1 quote
All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away. — 1st Peter 1:24 · 65Lawn1 quote
Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn. — Francis Bacon · 1625Life1 quote
All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away. — 1st Peter 1:24 · 65Nature1 quote
Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up? — D.H. Lawrence · 1920Political leadership1 quote
If you desire what is good, the people will be good. The character of a ruler is like wind and that of the people is like grass. In whatever direction the wind blows the grass always bends. — Confucius · 221 BCRabbits1 quote
Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up? — D.H. Lawrence · 1920Sic transit gloria mundi1 quote
All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away. — 1st Peter 1:24 · 65Stars1 quote
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. — Walt Whitman · 1855Suburbia1 quote
Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn. — Francis Bacon · 1625The masses1 quote
If you desire what is good, the people will be good. The character of a ruler is like wind and that of the people is like grass. In whatever direction the wind blows the grass always bends. — Confucius · 221 BCYard1 quote
Get off my lawn! — Walt Kowalski · 2008