Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Geeta Tripathee

Quote by Geeta Tripathee

“Grasshoppers grow crops never: No hands they have to hold spades; Nor have they harrows to level fields; Only have they long trunks to suck.”

Quote by Geeta Tripathee

Create image

Author

Geeta Tripathee

Browse famous quotes and profile details for Geeta Tripathee. more

You May Also Like

“Thousands of grasshoppers were jumping everywhere; I felt like I was walking through popping popcorn. These critters made me conscious of my surroundings, since many snakes eat grasshoppers. When it comes to rattlesnakes and copperheads, the locals there have a saying that the “Third person gets bit.” The theory is: the first person gets the snake’s attention, the second person gets the snake aggravated, and the third person gets bit. There were only two of us, but I didn’t feel like testing the theory.”

GrasshoppersBiteSnakeRattlesnake
Book:Three Hundred Zeroes: Lessons of the Heart on the Appalachian Trail
Create image

“Thus it was up to God, to Him alone in His own ways - by one or both, I say - to give man back his whole life and perfection. But since a deed done is more prized the more it manifests within itself the mark of the loving heart and goodness of the doer, the Everlasting Love, whose seal is plain on all the wax of the world was pleased to move in all His ways to raise you up again. There was not, nor will be, from the first day to the last night, an act so glorious and so magnificent, on either way. For God, in giving Himself that man might be able to raise himself, gave even more than if he had forgiven him in mercy. All other means would have been short, I say, of perfect justice, but that God's own Son humbled Himself to take on mortal clay. -Paradiso, Canto VII”

ParadisoCiardi Translation
Book:The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Create image