#grass

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #grass




I like almost everything, even country twang, disco, blue grass and accordions.


Pat Mastelotto


#blue #country #disco #even #everything

[Ella Baker]'s second defining characteristic was her dislike of top-down leadership... 'She felt leaders were not appointed but the rose up. Someone will rise. Someone will emerge'. It was an attitude Baker shared with some of the older women in the movement.


Gail Collins


#ella-baker #feminism #grassroots-organizing #leadership #naacp

Unlike what you may be told in other sectors of life, when observing the universe, size does matter, which often leads to polite ‘telescope envy’ at gatherings of amateur astronomers.


Neil deGrasse Tyson


#neil-degrasse-tyson #physics #telescope #universe #life

The miracle of the light pours over the green and brown expanse of saw grass and of water, shining and slow-moving below, the grass and water that is the meaning and the central fact of the Everglades of Florida. It is a river of grass.


Marjorie Stoneman Douglas


#florida #nature #river-of-grass #nature

As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea. The red of the grass made all the great prairie the colour of winestains, or of certain seaweeds when they are first washed up. And there was so much motion in it; the whole country seemed, somehow, to be running.


Willa Cather


#nature #prairie #similies #nature

Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.


Karel Capek


#hold #instinct #life #live #more

Actually I ran away from school when I was 13. No one could find me, and the police were called. I was just hiding in a little thicket of grass at my school, and went to sleep.


Zhang Ziyi


#away #called #could #find #grass

It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians.


Dan Fogelberg


#great #like #more #musicians #other

It is difficult to determine the cause of grass fires. There is usually nothing left behind when we get there, like a cigarette or a gas can, for us to determine what started it.


John Glover


#cause #cigarette #determine #difficult #fires

I'm frustrated by something, it's my fault for exposing myself to it in the first place. The rumor mill always seemed like a grass fire to me. Why walk out in the middle of the field, it's just going to flame out and go away just like everything else does?


Amy Grant


#away #does #else #everything #exposing