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Quotes About Grass

I think for Britain it's tough to play on clay. They prefer grass courts, hard courts, fast courts.
~ David Goffin
I don't really like to run on grass.
~ Gael Monfils
I like to garden, particularly mowing grass.
~ Rita Tushingham
I can play well on grass. Everyone keeps on telling me that.
~ Kiki Bertens
Rugby is just a ball. I would be much more versed to coach American football, but you need 22 players and all of the equipment. With rugby, all you need is some green grass, a ball, and a bunch of kids who want to run into each other really hard, which they enjoy.
~ John Layfield
I enjoy playing on grass and I enjoy being in London.
~ Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
We all know how good Roger is on grass.
~ David Goffin
I think I can play really well on grass when my serve is going well, when I really play aggressive, when I believe in it, then I think I can play well.
~ Kiki Bertens
When you see these things, your heart will rejoice. You will flourish like the grass! Everyone will see the Lord's hand of blessing on his servants. —Isaiah 66:14
~ Gary Chapman
for the human mind in that grassy corner had not the proverbial tendency to admire the unknown, holding rather that it was likely to be against the poor man, and that suspicion was the only wise attitude with regard to it.
~ George Eliot
My instincts led me to meditate in the woods when I was a kid. I would emerge at sunset and announce to my family that we are all connected beings. I would watch the grass grow and dance with trees and realize that I was a necessary part of the inter-workings of the world.
~ Tara Stiles
am driving us home to Mrs. Lush in her shiny kitchen with a checked tablecloth in a house where the grass looks as if it's been Hoovered. You see, only in the land of Croca-Colas does the sun shine in Technicolor. Life lived at the end of the rainbow.
~ Sally Gardner
Our breath Caught like a needle On the skin of water You said "Will it be here?" "Here where the grass is so tall?" And I thought Yes Yes here
~ Sally Mann
I let my gaze sink to the darken ground. The moon pick out the bitty grass, can see a balden dandelion gray with night. And now first consider what become of Pasha's missing teeth. Children can lose teeth from hunger. Teeth bash out in war. No glad adventure lead to gappen teeth.
~ Sandra Newman
Kritan women once danced supplely around a beautiful altar with light feet, crushing the soft flowers of grass.
~ Sappho
I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks it is a meadow lacking grass, and tries to correct the error.
~ Sara Stein
Ivan Lendl's never going to be a great player on grass. The only time he comes to the net is to shake your hand.
~ Goran Ivanisevic
the backyard's tall grass, he had somehow understood the fear in his mother's voice. But on this day, the day they began taking the woods away, he hesitated. He took one extra breath of the fresh air, scented with clover and honeysuckle and—coming from far away—
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
A narrow pond would form in the orchard, water clear as air covering grass and black leaves and fallen branches, all around it black leaves and drenched grass and fallen branches, and on it, slight as an image in an eye, sky, clouds, trees, our hovering faces and our cold hands.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Fear and comfort could be the same thing. It was strange, when she thought of it. The wind always somewhere, trifling with the leaves, troubling the firelight. And that smell of damp earth and bruised grass, a lonely, yearning sort of smell that meant, Why don't you come back, you will come back, you know you will.
~ Marilynne Robinson
It was as if the light had coaxed a flowering from the frost, which before seemed barren and parched as salt. The grass shone with petal colors, and water drops spilled from all the trees as innumerably as petals.
~ Marilynne Robinson
It was 7 minutes after midnight. The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of the lawn in front of Mrs. Shears's house.
~ Mark Haddon
Nature is the first and last revelation because it is the 'scripture' of the Eternal. The trace of His hand is found in every rippling field of grass or fluttering leaf or silent flower; to read them is to help recover our roots of immortality.
~ Mark Perry
The clocks were striking midnight at different places all over the town as I stepped through the door of my college. The rain had cleared. Moonlight gave the grass and towers an air of unreality, as if all would be removed in the morning to make way for another scene.
~ Anthony Powell