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It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.
A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following.
When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white.
Don't sit and wish for some ideal; the grass is not always greener with the big house and cars and artwork.
It is my hope that the establishment part of the Democratic Party will heed what the grass roots is saying.
For me, Wimbledon is such a special tournament. I feel at home when I play there, and the grass is perfect.
When I was in charge of the Christian Coalition I was available to mobilize grass roots support for somebody.
The Spanish troops returned and we could yet discover the grass beaten down in the direction which they went.
HELPED are those who lose their fear of death; theirs is the power to envision the future in a blade of grass.
I'm not gregarious. I spend a lot of time in the parks when it is fine. I do know almost every blade of grass.
People say a striker should be so hungry for goals, that he should eat the grass. Well, I did that - literally!
How much power is there in a thousand noisy engines? I tell you, there is more power in a single blade of grass.
God knows Himself and every created thing perfectly. Not a blade of grass or the tiniest insect escapes His eye.
I went through one period when I smoked a surprising, a really breath-taking, amount of grass almost every night.
Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread and the wine.
The streams with softest sound are flowing, The grass you almost hear it growing, You hear it now, if e'er you can.
How was life before Pop-Tarts, Prozac and padded playgrounds? They ate strudel, took opium and played on the grass.
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.
I'm not irreplaceable ... I'm nothing but grass growing on the ground; when the grass dies, another one replaces it.
Apparently I don't do stairs, I won't walk on carpet and I refuse to walk on grass. How do I do to get around, hover?
Ive been an engineer, barman, skip lorry driver, coalman, boat window manufacturer, contract grass cutter and builder.
I tried to film 'Leaves of Grass' in Oklahoma, but it was literally about a million dollars less to shoot in Louisiana.
I've been married for 46 years, and I live in a nice house, my grass is always cut, I pay my bills, and my cat loves me!
The cows shorten the grass, and the chickens eat the fly larvae and sanitize the pastures. This is a symbiotic relation.
I love to tackle, especially when the grass is wet, but my main aim is to be a complete goalkeeper who can do everything.
I love being in the woods, when I can just walk barefoot in the grass and just sit down and breathe. I love that so much.
The two books I've re-read more than any others are Guenter Grass's 'The Tin Drum' and Victor Hugo's 'Notre-Dame de Paris'.
The live oak can grow sturdily on the hottest hills of central California, contrasting dark green against the golden grass.
Maybe it's better like this, better that everything should go up in a blaze of dry grass and that people should begin again.
I still drink vodka; I'm not an advocate of drinking, but I'm no angel. I don't like grass, because it just makes me hungry.
The grass is always greener on the other side, unless Vince Russo has been there in which case the grass is most likely dead.
To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
Never define your success by somebody else's success. I never looked at another man's grass to tell how green mine should be.
That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass - deadly to the incautious wayfarer.
Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.
Too many people are waiting for Jesus to come along and cut your grass. And Jesus isn't going to come along and cut your grass.
As players, we need to try to inspire young girls to keep playing because, at grass roots, we need more girls playing football.
To look out of a car in Scania, you see a painting on the horizontal - one windmill, one tiny farmhouse, acres of beet or grass.
In my junior high and high school days, I would just pick up a mower and go mow the neighbor's grass and make an extra 30 bucks.
I grew up in Canada, man - we all had rinks in our backyards because we'd ice down the grass with a hose and build a skating rink.
The grass as bristly and stout as chives and me wondering when the ground will break and me wondering how anything fragile survives
I'm feeling good about my movement on grass courts; I can serve a little bit better. This makes me much more dangerous than on hard.
The grass is not always greener on the other side. It is about recognising what you do have and being grateful for what you do have.
Green is my favorite. And it's my favorite because it's the color of my wife's eyes, grass, trees, life, and money, and mother earth!
What a benediction is this fragrance of the early morning! The vernal grass fills the whole atmosphere as with a shower of sweetness.
Meetings, clearly, can take place anywhere, and wouldn't it be nice to see your coworkers lounging on the grass with their shoes off?
I used to mow grass and sell Christmas cards and shovel snow in order to raise the $25 to go to Boy Scout Camp in Osceola every year.
I was born in an Ilokano village called Cabugawan. Most of the houses in it were roofed with thatch, pan-aw, a species of wild grass.
I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one's mind.
People often ask me whether I prefer theater or film, and the answer is that I prefer the one I'm not doing: The grass is always greener.