“ Underneath an apple-tree sat a maiden and her lover; And the thoughts within her he yearned, in silence, to discover. Round them danced the sunbeams bright, green the grass-lawn stretched before them while the apple blossoms white hung in rich profusion o'er them. ”
- Will Carleton- Copy
- 1.8K
“ We were TP-ing a friend's house, and we took a giant bag of shredded paper and put it all over the lawn. But my mom drove us. We put it all over the lawn, and it took them a week to get it all out. ”
- Alexa Vega- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget. ”
- Christina Rossetti- Copy
- 2.2K
“ What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball. ”
- Bill Murray- Copy
- 2.5K
“ People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors. ”
- John Betjeman- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Anyone who lies golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens. ”
- Andy Rooney- Copy
- 3.9K
“ The real offense, as she ultimately perceived, was her having a mind of her own at all. Her mind was to be his — attached to his own like a small garden-plot to a deer-park. ”
- Henry James- Copy
- 1K
“ The real offence, as she ultimately perceived, was her having a mind of her own at all. Her mind was to be his - attached to his own like a small garden plot to a deer park. ”
- Henry James- Copy
- 1.7K
“ We trample grass, and prize the flowers of May; yet the grass is green when the flower fades away. ”
- R. Southwell- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans. ”
- Marcelene Cox- Copy
- 2.2K
“ If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
- 1.6K
“ On a strawberry sundae of a day, all daisies and June sun and pastoral posing by world leaders on the Lancaster House lawn. ”
- John Vinocur- Copy
- 3.8K
“ The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady. ”
- Richard M. Nixon- Copy
- 3K
“ I have to say I've worked very few days of my life. I used to have to cut the lawn, and when I was in junior high school, I worked at a concession stand at a stadium. ”
- Steve Nash- Copy
- 3.1K
“ The greatest things in the world are those that neither men nor children can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. ”
- Francis P. Church- Copy
- 2.1K
“ EMBALM, v.i. To cheat vegetation by locking up the gases upon which it feeds. By embalming their dead and thereby deranging the natural balance between animal and vegetable life, the Egyptians made their once fertile and populous country barren and incapable of supporting more than a meagre crew… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 3.4K
“ The American cemetery at Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer is a great lawn at the edge of the sea, white marble crosses and Stars of David against an open horizon. very American in the best sense: no phony piety, simple, easy. ”
- John Vinocur- Copy
- 2.2K
“ I'd be painting sometimes, and get the strangest feeling I was being watched. I'd look up and see faces pressed against the window or door screens. Then, when I noticed them, the people would want to come in and talk to me. Got very upset, too, when I was too busy… ”
- Norman Rockwell- Copy
- 1K
“ Just to be seen strolling to or from a helicopter on the White House lawn, shouting an evasive answer to Sam Donaldson, must seem to the Reagans not quite satisfactory enough of a 7 PM presence, and this inane scene certainly galls the press. ”
- Thomas Griffith- Copy
- 1.5K
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