"How do you expect the Germans to revolt when they don't even dare walk on the grass?"
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"HELPED are those who lose their fear of death; theirs is the power to envision the future in a blade of grass."
"Wherever the Turkish hoof trods, no grass grows."
"When the wind blows,the grass bends."
"We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead."
"Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation."
"The grass isn't always greener on the other side. I start off kind of in love and then I leave love and I'm single."
"How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green!"
"I am solitary as grass. What is it I miss? Shall I ever find it, whatever it is?"
"The fulness of the godhead dwelt in every blade of grass."
"Grass probably helped me as much as it hurt me. Especially as a performer."
"I lean and loaf at my ease... observing a spear of summer grass."
"Duty grows everywhere--like children, like grass."
"Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn."
"The dry grasses are not dead for me. A beautiful form has as much life at one season as another."
"Reading Chaucer is like brushing through the dewy grass at sunrise."
"A blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another."
"There's a snake hidden in the grass."
"A narrow Fellow in the Grass Occasionally rides"
"Maybe it's better like this, better that everything should go up in a blaze of dry grass and that people should begin again."
"The grass as bristly and stout as chives and me wondering when the ground will break and me wondering how anything fragile survives"