Top 1200 Long Grass Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

You can't be the accountant in your accounting firm. You can't cut the grass in your landscaping business. You can't work on the vehicles in your auto repair shop... And you really can't spend all of your time managing those actions, either.

Passion is lifted from the earth itself by the muddy hands of the young; it travels along grass-stained sleeves to the heart. If we are going to save environmentalism and the environment, we must also save an endangered indicator species: the child in nature.

A lot of people are always striving for bigger and better. People are always wondering if the grass is greener and then they'll? start hearing things or meeting other people.

But speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance. Speak the truth, and all things alive orbrute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

But isn't the knowledge that comes from experience more valuable than the knowledge that doesn't? It seems fairly obvious to some of us that a lot of scholars need to go outside and sniff around - walk through the grass, talk to the animals. That sort of thing.

A long long time ago, I can still remember how that music use to make me smile.

Because criminals know that when they see a house with 2 foot tall grass, a dog on a chain, and an engine hanging from a tree, a gun lives in that house. And if you want to know what kind, just break in at 2 in the morning.

In terms of threshold, as long as it's based in reality, you can go pretty far, as long as you buy that it's really happening.

Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do is this life is to let himself die.

the present is the merest flicker between the long long time past and the things that haven't yet happened but most assuredly will.

I'm Allergic to grass. Hey, it could be worse. I could be allergic to beer.

So many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me - a long, long road without a goal.

I'm sure all actors have trouble. The guy who always plays the funny guy, he wants to be taken seriously. And there's the action guy who wants to do serious stuff. Everyone's grass is greener.

It seems like every new corner we turn, the Rockefellers are already there. And in some cases, they have been there for a long, long time.

In order to succeed, you have to live dangerously.. as long as the danger is rationally accepted and as long as the rewards far outweigh the risk.

Beaumont-Hamel sits within a thousand acres of French agriculture. The trenches are under this blanket of grass. In the 1920s, a park was established here and trees from Newfoundland imported to encircle the battlefield so you get the feeling of being within a copse of woods.

Woman! Come out! I have—" She looked down at the bloodless grass, embarrassed. "I have come to rescue you," she finally said, as if admitting that she were covered in boils.

We're all flawed human beings trying to be a better person on a daily basis and I didn't figure that out for a long, long time.

You know what writers say about their long books: If I had another year, the book would be half as long.

I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.

But night would come and with it the mountain moon and the lake would be moon - laned and I'd go out and sit in the grass and meditate facing west, wishing there were a Personal God in all this impersonal matter.

Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards.

As long as women are bound by poverty and as long as they are looked down upon, human rights will lack substance.

I realized that I was more of a sprinter than a marathon man. With a long, long project, I get bored easily.

Send home my long strayed eyes to me, Which (Oh) too long have dwelt on thee.

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

We have seen a lot more black and minority ethnic coaches at grass-roots level, academy level, development level, but of course at senior level there is a massive void. That is something that has to be addressed and there has to be a pathway for them.

Let you hold in mind, girls, that your beauty must pass Like a lovely white clover that rusts with its grass. Keep your bottoms off barstools and marry you young Or be left--an old barrel with many a bung.

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long.

I'd like very much to make a confident picture. I would like to be as good as nature, which, with a shower, produces flowers and grass to cover the destruction. But we are surrounded by human fragmentation, by pessimism, and it is difficult to talk of other things.

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had no childhood in it if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass . . .

The new CIA torture report is 6 million pages long. It's almost as long as a George Clooney pre-nup.

Horses have hoofs to carry them over frost and snow; hair, to protect them from wind and cold. They eat grass and drink water, and fling up their heels.... Such is the real nature of horses.

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.

And I leave the children the long, long days to be merry in in a thousand ways, and the Night, and the trail of the Milky Way to wonder at.

When you are tempted to look elsewhere for greener pastures, just remember someone else is probably looking at yours. And if another pasture looks greener, perhaps it is getting better care and attention. Grass is always greener . . . where it is watered.

I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes as common as the grass.

I want to try to have fun as long as I can and play football at a high level. I do not know how long that will go on.

Grass is a surface I have always loved, Wimbledon is a tournament I have always loved.

A student might ask, how long will it take to learn guitar..., the answer is, as long as you live - that short.

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long.

We became one of those bands that could be around forever like Slayer. We can go on as long as we want to, as long as we have fun.

You don't have to be brilliant, only a little bit wiser than the other guys, on average, for a long, long, time.

I think it's long overdue, and I believed that Doris Miller should have been honored a long time ago.

It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.

The executives who run the fast food industry are not bad men. They are businessmen. They will sell free-range, organic, grass-fed hamburgers if you demand it. They will sell whatever sells at a profit.

You make a horror film that's not very good. You'd be joining a long line, in a long video aisle, of stuff that doesn't work.

I wanted to write it long before I wrote Every Night, Josephine! I'd been thinking about it a long time.

I liked back in the sixties where you'd turn on the radio and go 'Oh that's Hendrix, that's Creedence Clearwater, that's The Doors, there's The Grass Roots, The Monkees, there's Big Brother.' You could just instantly hear it and tell. But in the eighties and nineties there's no way you could do that.

Rome endured as long as there were Romans. America will endure as long as we remain American in spirit and in thought.

When I paint green, it doesn't mean grass; when I paint blue, it doesn't mean sky.

Great Spirit-I want no blood upon my land to stain the grass. I want it all clear and pure, and I wish it so, that all who go through among my people may find it peaceful when they come, and leave peacefully when they go.

The pleasure of the mulch pile is incomprehensible. I wouldn't care if they just hauled the mulch to the landfill somewhere. Obviously, grass clippings are biodegradable, but when they're bunched together at the landfill, they become badly influenced by other garbage.

I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant.

Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one?

There was after all no mystery in the end of love, no mystery but the mystery of love itself, which was large certainly but as real as grass, as natural and unaccountable as bloom and branch and their growth.

The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your work.

The sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can't touch - like England 's grass network of lanes 100 years ago, but today he can destroy them and only Lord Farrer keeps him from doing it.

When awful darkness and silence reign Over the great Gromboolian plain, Through the long, long wintry nights.