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Quotes About Grass

Wimbledon is very special with the traditions and everything.
~ Caroline Wozniacki
Wimbledon just is the epitome of tennis.
~ Madison Keys
There is nothing like Wimbledon. When I think about tennis, I think about this tournament.
~ Madison Keys
If you had a robot out here calculating all the variables, I think you could potentially get really close to perfection, but from a human perspective, there's no way to understand all the wind. The wind is the biggest variable, and the grass length is the second biggest variable that we just don't have control over and never will.
~ Bryson DeChambeau
I think winning at Wimbledon's huge. This is the biggest tournament in tennis for so many different reasons. You can see the history around the grounds. The Village around you, everyone lives for it.
~ Frances Tiafoe
Sorg blekes ut og vender seg til stjernene men minnet om hester, kvinne føtter, barn strømmer fra deres ansikter over i gressets rike.
~ Rolf Jacobsen
The world of grass was never meant to be shortened to a carpet so that the outdoors is like one big wall-to-wall room.
~ Louise Erdrich
In war the most testing moments are those of peace , for a dead man lying in the grass makes the living see the world as it would be, but for their folly.
~ Andreï Makine
There is a misery of the body and a misery of the mind, and if the stars, whenever we looked at them, poured nectar into our mouths, and the grass became bread, we would still be sad. We live in a system that manufactures sorrow, spilling it out of its mill, the waters of sorrow, ocean, storm, and we drown down, dead, too soon.
~ Andrea Dworkin
I can never get over when you're on the beach how beautiful the sand looks and the water washes it away and straightens it up and the trees and the grass all look great. I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.
~ Andy Warhol
I can never get over when you're on the beach how beautiful the sand looks and the water washes it away and straightens it up and the trees and the grass all look great. I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.
~ Andy Warhol
ABATURE  (A'BATURE)   n.s.[a hunting term.] Those sprigs of grass which are thrown down by a stag in his passing by.Dict.
~ Samuel Johnson
his hat from his head and presses it to his chest. I walk a few dozen yards from the train, climb the grassy bank, and sit rubbing my
~ Sara Gruen
And that was as far as he got before i heard it. The thumping of footsteps, running up the lawn toward me: It seemed like I could hear it through the grass, like leaning your ear to a railroad track and feeling the train coming, miles away. As the noise got closer I could hear ragged breaths, and then a voice. It was my mother.
~ Sarah Dessen
I headed downtown right away. It was still early in the evening, glittering with electric, with ice; and trembling in the factories, those nearly all windows, over the prairies that had returned over demolitions with winter grass pricking the snow and thrashed and frozen together into beards by the wind. The cold simmer of the lake also, blue; the steady skating of rails too, down to the dark.
~ Saul Bellow
Saving Thy Gracious Presence, he to me A long-legged grasshopper appears to be, That springing flies, and flying springs, And in the grass the same old ditty sings. Would he still lay among the grass he grows in! Each bit of dung he seeks, to stick his nose in.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The statue had its own traffic triangle, part laid to grass, with conker trees. All on its own, its plinth pink granite. Above stood William Wallace stern and black, right hand covering his claymore hilt, left hand wide, outstretched and open. A yo-yo hung from his ring finger.
~ John Aberdein
Lover of swampsThe quagmire overgrownWith hassock tufts of sedge—where fear encampsAround thy home aloneThe trembling grassQuakes from the human footNor bears the weight of man to let him passWhere he alone and muteSitteth at rest
~ John Clare
It was an overcast late November morning, the grass splintered by hoarfrost, and winter grinning through the gaps in the clouds like a bad clown peering through the curtains before the show begins.
~ John Connolly
You still carrying an arsenal in the trunk of your car?" "Why, you need something?" "No, but if your car is hit by lightning I'll know where my lawn went.
~ John Connolly
Although he was a northern creature, more comfortable with dark and cold than light and heat, he had long since passed the annual point of weariness with the elements, and yearned to see expanses of earth and grass unsullied by patches of grim ice.
~ John Connolly
The lazy geese, like a snow cloudDripping their snow on the green grass,Tricking and stopping, sleepy and proud,Who cried in goose, Alas.
~ John Crowe Ransom
O great wide beautiful wonderful World With the wonderful waters around you curled And the beautiful grass upon your breast O World you are beautifully dressed.
~ John Crowley
Grief broke down in phrases And extrapolated lines From me without myself Tear-stained pillow of stone I felt I was lying Beside him in the coffin Wormy mother Who takes us into the ground With her whenever and wherever She wants the grass glistens And grows over us in the heat Of late summer in the country
~ Edward Hirsch