Quotes About Grasshoppers

#1. I bought my Grasshoppers tennis shoes at a flea market in Brooklyn. They are so comfortable to lounge around in on tour.

Wynter Gordon

#2. Feeling well that breathed words Would all be lost, unheard, and vain as swords Against the enchased crocodile, or leaps Of grasshoppers against the sun ...

John Keats

#3. A great war shall burst forth from fishes of steel. Machines of flying fire, lobsters, grasshoppers, mosquitoes. The mass attacks shall be repulsed in the woods, when no child in Germany shall obey any longer.

Nostradamus

#4. This river is so old. When the Nephilim walked the land and men were like grasshoppers at their feet, it was flashing as thin and quick as a minnow.

Kristopher Reisz

#5. I want you to begin keeping a calendar of who you see and when: the first day each year you see buttercups, the first day frogs start singing, the last day you see robins in the fall, the first day for grasshoppers. In short, I want you to pay attention.

Derrick Jensen

#6. three hundred trout are required to support one man for a year. The trout, in turn, must consume 90,000 frogs, which must consume 27 million grasshoppers, which live off of 1,000 tons of grass."10

Jeremy Rifkin

#7. (The Palestinians) would be crushed like grasshoppers ... heads smashed against the boulders and walls.

Yitzhak Shamir

#8. Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.

Alexander Pope

#9. When a man makes alliance with the Almighty, giants look like grasshoppers.

Vance Havner

#10. One hundred trout are needed to support one man for a year. The trout, in turn, must consume 90,000 frogs, that must consume 27 million grasshoppers that live off of 1,000 tons of grass.

G. Tyler Miller

#11. Their laughter was like the stridulation of the ghosts of grasshoppers.

John Collier

#12. Ras Tiegans fried everything, from grasshoppers to pickles to hunks of curried dog.

Kameron Hurley

#13. The cicadas pierce the air with their searing one-note calls; dust eddies across the roads; from the weedy patches at the verges, grasshoppers whir. The leaves of the maples hang from their branches like limp gloves; on the sidewalk my shadow crackles.

Margaret Atwood

#14. The white people were as thick and numerous and aimless as grasshoppers, moving always in a hurry but never seeming to get to whatever place it was they were going to.

Dee Brown

#15. Twere better far That gods should quaff their nectar merrily, And men sing out the day like grasshoppers, So may they haply lull the watchful thunder.

Hartley Coleridge

#16. Even without seeing the crickets, grasshoppers, cicadas and katydids, we hear them shrilling in this season and trust that they're the tiny living gargoyles entomologists claim.

Diane Ackerman

#17. Crowds of bees are giddy with clover
Crowds of grasshoppers skip at our feet,
Crowds of larks at their matins hang over,
Thanking the Lord for a life so sweet.

Jean Ingelow

#18. I miss the grasshoppers much, but suppose it is all for the best. I should become too much attached to a trotting world.

Emily Dickinson

#19. Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field.

Edmund Burke

#20. when God pleads his people's cause he can deal with giants as with grasshoppers. No

Matthew Henry

#21. Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses.

Gene Tierney

#22. Destiny is not necessarily what we get out of life, but rather, what we give.

Cary Grant

#23. She is a small woman with a face like a book mite; she is not without opinions.

Lisa Koger

#24. The continuation that obeys only obvious stack semantics, O grasshopper, is not the true continuation.

Guy Steele

#25. We met the next day for coffee and when I asked her what was up she said, "I think I'm having a crisis of faith." To which I thought, what the hell does that look like for a Unitarian? "Yeah," she continued, "I-I think I believe in Jesus." Oh. That's what it looks like.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

#26. Considering things in the ecumenical measure, we are the microbes of the Universe.

Sahara Sanders

#27. Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

Gil Scott-Heron