Top 77 Grass Grow Quotes
#1. The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all.
Anzia Yezierska
#3. Trying to observe the slow shift from self-centeredness to empathy is like trying to watch grass grow.
Neal A. Maxwell
#4. Some people like to keep their grass cut really short, so they can see the intruders coming. Keep those kill zones open. I say let the grass grow tall so they don't know there's a house behind it. Some call it lazy, I say it's thinking.
Jeff Foxworthy
#5. Measuring progress is often like watching grass grow. While it's difficult to detect movement on a daily basis, it's simple to see growth over time.
Frank Sonnenberg
#6. Investing is like waiting for paint dry and grass grow so. If you like fun, let handle 800 USD and headed to Las Vegas
Paul Samuelson
#7. Well, what do you owe yourself? Do you dare take time out to listen to the grass grow, or can you even afford the expense of getting far enough away from life's daily cacophony to hear it grow if you took the time?
Vincent Price
#8. A man who wants time to read and write must let the grass grow long.
Sloan Wilson
#9. Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.
Andy Rooney
#10. Sometimes I daydream about having a farm and a wife and some babies and watching the grass grow, but you have to meet the right person for that.
Conor Oberst
#11. Someday we might look back with a curious nostalgia at the days when profligate homeowners wastefully sprayed their lawns with liquid gold to make the grass grow, just so they could then burn black gold to cut it down on the weekends.
Alok Jha
#12. Professor Moriarty is not a man who lets the grass grow under his feet.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#13. The virtue of making two blades of grass grow where only one grew before does not begin to be superhuman.
Henry David Thoreau
#14. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
George Eliot
#15. Unfortunately for humanity, God is patient enough to actually enjoy watching the grass grow.
A.E. Samaan
#16. First you spend a lot of time and money making the grass grow, just so you can spend a lot of time and money cutting it down again a little while later.
Lee Child
#17. No one makes history, no one sees it happen, no one sees the grass grow.
Boris Pasternak
#19. If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.
George Eliot
#20. Love falls to earth, rises from the ground, pools around the afflicted. Love pulls people back to their feet. Bodies and souls are fed. Bones and lives heal. New blades of grass grow from charred soil. The sun rises.
Anne Lamott
#21. Lie quiet and you will lapse back into peace again. Be like the god Heimdall before the battle call, so still that you can hear the wool grow on the backs of sheep, and the grass grow far away in the lands where the snow melts.
Anne Rice
#22. The best thing I ever heard was in the '60s. I heard Jimi Hendrix play 'I Can Hear The Grass Grow' after a rehearsal, and it was brilliant.
Roy Wood
#23. Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.
Paul Samuelson
#24. There was no football on TV, which meant that I was reduced to watching cricket, which is about as interesting as watching grass grow. Thankfully they had introduced Twenty20 cricket, which was a lot faster paced and more interesting. It was more like watching grass get watered. I
Renae Kaye
#25. I should have known [ ... ] I am the rain. [ ... ] I am the land [ ... ] and I am the rain. The grass will grow out of me in a little while.
John Steinbeck
#26. Take away my people, but leave my factories and soon grass will grow on the factory floors ... Take away my factories, but leave my people and soon we will have a new and better factory.
Andrew Carnegie
#27. Soon enough the days will close over their lives, the grass will grow over their graves, until their story is just an unvisited headstone.
M.L. Stedman
#28. There were black mountains on which nothing, no grass or trees, seemed to grow. Thin lines that twisted unpredictably, with tributaries arriving nowhere. Not rivers, but roads.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#29. We shove the dirt over the book, tamping down the disturbed soil. The grass will grow back soon enough. It will be for us the beautiful uncut hair of graves.
John Green
#30. What I do is sometimes - at least in Germany - met with wounding campaigns. I always face the question: should I grow myself a thick skin and ignore it, or should I let myself be wounded? I've decided to be wounded, since, if I grew a thick skin, there are other things I wouldn't feel any more.
Gunter Grass
#31. We live, we die, and like the grass and trees, renew ourselves from the soft earth of the grave. Stones crumble and decay, faiths grow old and they are forgotten, but new beliefs are born. The faith of the villages is dust now ... but it will grow again ... like the trees.
Chief Joseph
#32. There, where I have passed, the grass will never grow gain.
Attila The Hun
#33. We will burn the old grass and the new will grow.
Pol Pot
#34. I wish the night would end, I wish the day'd begin, I wish it would rain or snow, or the wind would blow, or the grass would grow, I wish I had yesterday, I wish there were games to play ...
Virginia C. Andrews
#35. Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.
Khalil Gibran
#36. According to the Talmud, every blade of grass has its own angel bending over it, whispering, Grow, grow.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#37. The paired butterflies are already yellow with August Over the grass in the West garden; They hurt me. I grow older.
Li Bai
#38. Sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God: Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.
David
#39. He declares his privacy is temporary and justified, and promises to explain before the wedding. That is all that anyone knows for certain, but Mrs MacNab will tell you a great deal more than even she is certain of. You know how the tales grow like grass on such a patch of ignorance as that.
G.K. Chesterton
#40. Grassroots efforts are real.
Grass cannot grow if someone is standing on it.
Where are you standing?
Bob Kulhan
#41. Tereza's death hurt me so much, it was as if I had two heads smashing into each other. One was full of mown love, the other of hate. I wanted the love to grow back. It grew like grass and straw, all mixed up together, and turned into an icy affirmation on my brow. That was my damn stupid plant.
Herta Muller
#42. We live by night and dance fast so grass can't grow under our feet. That's our creed.
Dennis Lehane
#43. Every child can remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#44. Dig into the roots of culture, and it will grow. It's like a grass that is growing, and it cannot stop, and music is like the fertilizer for that.
Burning Spear
#45. Every blade of grass has an angel that bends over it and whispers 'Grow, grow'.
Midrash Rabbah
#46. Dandelion Wine is nothing if it is not the boy-hid-in-the-man playing in the fields of the Lord on the green grass of other Augusts in the midst of starting to grow up, grow old, and sense darkness waiting under the trees to seed the blood. I
Ray Bradbury
#47. It wouldn't be much fun living on a planet where grass could not grow.
Ruskin Bond
#48. Charity is like warmth in springtime or summer that causes grass, plants, and trees to grow. Without charity, or spiritual warmth, nothing grows.
Emanuel Swedenborg
#49. Businesses once grew by one of two ways; grass roots up, or by acquisition ... Today businesses grow through alliances - all kinds of dangerous alliances. Joint ventures and customer partnerings which, by the way, very few people understand.
Peter Drucker
#50. I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love
If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.
You will hardly know who I am or what I mean
But I shall be good health to you nonetheless
And filter and fibre your blood.
Walt Whitman
#51. The soldiers did go away and their towns were torn down; and in the Moon of Falling Leaves (November), they made a treaty with Red Cloud that said our country would be ours as long as grass should grow and water flow.
Black Elk
#52. I hate baseball. It's dull. Nothing happens. It's like watching grass - no, Astroturf - grow
Jeff Jarvis
#53. The Kabbalah describes angels as bundles of light, meaning intelligence, consciousness. Kabbalists believe that above every blade of grass is an angel crying "Grow! Grow!" ... I believe that above the entire human race is one super-angel, crying "Evolve! Evolve!"
Steven Pressfield
#54. The grass is often no greener on the other side, so stick it out and see if you can grow up within the relationship. Find happiness and emotional independence within yourself before placing unreasonable and often unexpressed expectations on your spouse.
Malti Bhojwani
#55. Remember that "Help us grow this grass" is a far more effective sign than "Keep off the grass".
Norman Vincent Peale
#56. Grass that is here today and gone tomorrow does not require much time to mature. A giant oak tree that lasts for generations requires much more time to grow strong.
Henry T. Blackaby
#57. In the plains the grass grows tall, since there is no one to cut it. There is no one to water it either.
Vera Nazarian
#58. When you grow and rise above the masses, you will always become a target. Just as the flower grows above the grass, it becomes a target for the nourishment of the rays of sunshine, it also becomes a target to be cut down.
Sumner Davenport
#59. Yet what each one does is by no means of little moment. The grass has to put forth all its energy to draw sustenance from the uttermost tips of its rootlets simply to grow where it is as grass; it does not vainly strive to become a banyan tree; and so the earth gains a lovely carpet of green.
Rabindranath Tagore
#60. Why can't the ex-Chemist have a second chance? I get that we're kids and he's an adult, but you don't learn everything before you grow up. You learn until grass grows on your grave.
Shelley Tougas
#61. As a Talmudic saying goes, over every blade of grass an angel whispers, "Grow, grow!" Living organisms and living faiths must grow, or die!
Bruce Epperly
#62. And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Jonathan Swift
#63. Independently of me the grass grows, the rain falls on the grass that grows, and the sun shines on the patch of grass that grew or will grow; the hills have been there for ages, and the wind blows in the same way as when Homer heard it, even if he didn't exist.
Fernando Pessoa
#64. Not forever can one enjoy stillness and peace. But misfortune and obstruction are not final. When the grass has been burnt by the fire of the steppe, it will grow anew in summer.
Jean Sasson
#65. Let the grave mound grow a little grass, I always say; then it's safe to look.
John Irving
#66. And the truth is only that we grow and die and wither even as this grass here.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
#67. All dies! and not alone
The aspiring trees and men and grass;
The poets' forms of beauty pass,
And noblest deeds they are undone,
Even truth itself decays, and lo,
From truth's sad ashes pain and falsehood grow.
Herman Melville
#68. You're trying to eat grass that isn't there. Why don't you give it a chance to grow?
Richard Adams
#69. Every blade of grass has its Angel that bends over it and whispers, "Grow, grow." - The Talmud
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#70. The problem with the drone is it's like your lawn mower. You've got to mow the lawn all the time. The minute you stop mowing, the grass is going to grow back.
Bruce Riedel
#71. We need to simplify life. Do you think grass thinks about who trod on it yesterday? No... It just continues to grow. And so should you. You cannot control who treads on you, but you do control your own growth. Don't ever let others inhibit you!
Tony Curl
#72. Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.
William Jennings Bryan
#73. If grass can grow through cement, love can find you every time.
Cher
#74. I wanted love to grow back, like the grass when it's mown down. To grow differently, if need be, like children's teeth, like hair, like fingernails. To spring up at will, wild and untended. The chill of the sheets made me shudder, and so did the warmth that followed when I lay down.
Herta Muller
#75. A grass blade believes that men build palaces for it to grow in. Grass wedges its way between the closest blocks of marble and it brings them down. This power of feeble life which can creep in anywhere is greater than that of the mighty behind their cannons.
Honore De Balzac
#76. The world is alive with words. The animals, the trees, the grass, and the birds hum with their own words. "Life," they say. "Air," they breathe. "Heat," they hum. The birds call "Fly, fly!" and the leaves wave them onward, uncurling as they whisper "grow, grow." I
Amy Harmon
