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“I've never written a quote I feel would be suitable for my gravestone. Wouldn't it be ironic if it were this one? Oh, and could you pull a few weeds while you're here?”

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Book:Write like no one is reading

Source: Write like no one is reading

“The average lawn is an interesting beast: people plant it, then douse it with artificial fertilizers and dangerous pesticides to make it grow and to keep it uniform-all so that they can hack and mow what they encouraged to grow. And woe to the small yellow flower that rears its head!”

Environmentalism Lawns Pesticides Landscaping

Book:Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things

Source: Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things

“It's pretty cool to be able to hang out with the President and have the race-winning car on the South Lawn.”

Able Winning President Race Car South Hanging Out Lawns

Author:Buddy Rice

“We were the children of white flight, the first generation to grow up in postwar American suburbs. By the time the ’60s rolled around, many of us, the gay ones especially, were eager to make a U-turn and fly back the other way. Whether or not the city was obsolete, we couldn’t imagine our personal futures in any other form. The street and the skyline signified to us what the lawn and the highway signified to our parents: a place to breathe free.”

Way Firsts Children Form Turns Grows Parent White Cities Growing Up Imagine Generations Streets Gay Breathe Flight Highways Obsolete Suburbs Lawns Skylines

Author:Herbert Muschamp

“Anonymity is a wonderful thing if you can hang on to it. I live in Pasadena where we try to keep the movie people out. We discourage them from moving in our neighborhood and if they do we burn effigies on their lawns.”

People Ifs Trying Moving Wonderful Neighborhood Wonderful Things Discouraging Lawns Anonymity Moving In Pasadena

Author:Joe Johnston

“Take delight in a thing, or rather in anything, not as a means to some other end, but just because it is what it is. A child in the full health of his mind will put his hand flat on the summer lawn, feel it, and give a little shiver of private glee at the elastic firmness of the globe.”

Giving Feels Mind Mean Children Littles Ends Hands Pleasure Summer Delight Flats Globes Lawns Shiver Glee It Is What It Is Firmness

Author:Charles Edward Montague

“My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns, / Shall with their goat-feet dance an antic hay.”

Men Feet Dance Lawns Goats Hay Grazing Antics Satyrs

Author:Christopher Marlowe

“In the downhill of life, when I find I'm declining, May my lot no less fortunate be Than a snug elbow-chair can afford for reclining, And a cot that o'erlooks the wide sea; With an ambling pad-pony to pace o'er the lawn, While I carol away idle sorrow, And blithe as the lark that each day hails the dawn, Look forward with hope for to-morrow.”

Looks May Sea Tomorrow Sorrow Wide Fortunate Dawn Each Day Chairs Pace Idle Lawns Elbows Morrow Hail Pads Carols Ponies Larks Less Fortunate Blithe

Author:John Churton Collins

“Men love women because they are the loveliest things on God's earth. Women love men because chocolate can't mow the lawn. Some men prefer to love other men. Equally, some women prefer to love other women. There is a word to describe this kind of behaviour. Love.”

Men Kind Earth Chocolate Behaviour Lawns

Book:Never Hit a Jellyfish with a Spade: How to Survive Life's Smaller Challenges

Source: Never Hit a Jellyfish with a Spade: How to Survive Life's Smaller Challenges

“The acquisition of True Temper broadens our lawn and garden product line with outstanding, highly respected brands, ... The purchase also expands USI Hardware and Tool's customer base and provides additional capacity for future growth.”

Growth Lines Products Capacity Garden Tools Customers Brands Temper Outstanding Acquisition Lawns Temperance Hardware Future Growth

Author:David A. Clarke, Jr

“An altered look about the hills; A Tyrian light the village fills; A wider sunrise in the dawn; A deeper twilight on the lawn; A print of a vermilion foot; A purple finger on the slope; A flippant fly upon the pane; A spider at his trade again; An added strut in chanticleer; A flower expected everywhere.”

Looks Light Feet Flower Spring Trade Fingers Deeper Expected Hills Dawn Print Village Twilight Sunrise Spiders Purple April Altered Springtime Lawns Slopes Flippant

Book:The Works of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Works of Emily Dickinson

“A Light exists in Spring Not present on the Year At any other period - When March is scarcely here A Color stands abroad On Solitary Fields That Science cannot overtake But Human Nature feels. It waits upon the Lawn, It shows the furthest Tree Upon the furthest Slope you know It almost speaks to you. Then as Horizons step Or Noons report away Without the Formula of sound It passes and we stay - A quality of loss Affecting our Content As Trade had suddenly encroached Upon a Sacrament.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

“Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn; A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just, a Chanc'llor juster still; A Gownman learn'd; a Bishop what you will; Wise if a minister; but if a King, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more ev'rything.”

Ifs Stills Character Wise Judging Kings Saint Ministers Bishops Lawns

Book:The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward

Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward

“Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?”

Tree Bird Dawn Wet Lawns

Author:Matthew Arnold

“Technical progress and more comfortable living permit the systematic inclusion of libidinal components into the realm of commodity production and exchange. But no matter how controlled the mobilization of instinctual energy may be (it sometimes amounts to a scientific management of libido), no matter how much it may serve as a prop for the status quo - it is also gratifying to the managed individuals, just as racing the outboard motor, pushing the power lawn mower, and speeding the automobile are fun.”

“Mowing your lawn is against nature.”

Lawns Mowing

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“What is proposed herein is that we have no right, nor any ethical justification, for clearing land or using wilderness while we tread over lawns, create erosion, and use land inefficiently. Our responsibility is to put our house in order. Should we do so, there will never be any need to destroy wilderness.”

Needs Should Use Order House Responsibility Land Wilderness Ethical Justification Lawns Clearing Permaculture Erosion

Author:Bill Mollison

“Today was the annual Easter egg roll on the White House lawn. Usually when you see something rolling on the White House lawn it's a drunk Secret Service agent.”

Today House White Secret Drunk Agents Eggs White House Rolling Easter Lawns Annuals Secret Service Easter Egg Egg Rolls

Author:Conan O'Brien

“Tim Tebow may be back in the NFL with the Philadelphia Eagles. As you remember, he was thrown out of the league when he landed his gyrocopter on the White House lawn.”

May Remember House White League Nfl Thrown White House Eagles Lawns Philadelphia Tebow

Author:David Letterman

“Kids in Washington every year have the big Easter egg roll on the White House lawn. The kids found 300 Easter eggs. They also found about 10,000 missing Hillary emails.”

Years Bigs Kids Found House White Missing Eggs White House Easter Email Lawns Easter Egg Egg Rolls

Author:David Letterman

“I'll toss my coins in the fountain, Look for clovers in grassy lawns Search for shooting stars in the night Cross my fingers and dream on.”

Looks Dream Night Stars Crosses Fingers Shooting Coins Fountain Lawns Toss Clovers Shooting Star

Author:Tracy Chapman

“I just can't recruit where there's grass around. You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.”

Feels Enough Parent College Basketball Comfortable Grass Concrete Lawns Recruit College Basketball

Author:Al McGuire

“Guy Fieri's hair is the front lawn to hell.”

Guy Hell Fronts Hair Lawns

Author:Willie Geist

“The most frequent reason for unsuccessful advertising is advertisers who are so full of their own accomplishments (the world's best seed!) that they forget to tell us why we should buy (the world's best lawn!).”

World Should Reason Forget Seeds Advertising Accomplishment Lawns Unsuccessful Advertisers

Author:John Caples

“Go for a short walk in a soft rain - lovely - so many wild flowers startling me through the woods and a lawn sprinkled with dandelions, like a night with stars. And through it all the sound of soft rain like the sound of innumerable earthworms stirring in the ground.”

Night Stars Sound Walks Flower Rain Woods Lovely Lawns Stirring Dandelions

Author:Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“[On Dashiell Hammett:] ... he is so hard-boiled you could roll him on the White House lawn.”

Hard House White Novel Mystery White House Lawns Mystery Novels

Book:A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by

Source: A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by

“Some ideas, like dandelions in lawns, strike tenaciously: you may pull off the top but the root remains, drives down suckers and may even sprout again.”

May Ideas Roots Remains Strikes Lawns Sucker Sprouts Dandelions

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“But times are alter'd; trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain; Along the lawn, where scatter'd hamlets rose, Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose.”

Wealth Land Trade Train Rose Repose Lawns Unfeeling

Book:The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Including a Variety of Pieces Now First Collected

Source: The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Including a Variety of Pieces Now First Collected

“Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures, Russet lawns and fallows grey, Where the nibbling flocks do stray, Mountains on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide.”

Eye Pleasure Mines Mountain Rivers Rounds Clouds Caught Wide Landscape Breasts Shallow Grey Flocks Lawns Brooks Barren Meadows Daisies Nibbling

Author:John Milton

“It's even occurred to me, as a teeny little subversive whisper of a thought, that if we stop mowing the lawn right now, it will probably be a long, long time before the yard gets overrun by lions and snakes.”

Ifs Littles Long Right Now Long Time Lions Yards Snakes Lawns Subversive Housework Mowing Mowing The Lawn

Author:Barbara Ehrenreich

“[When her daughter suggested the President refer in his conversation with foreign dignitaries about lawn care to 'fertilizer' instead of to 'manure':] But remember, it took me almost thirty years to get him to call it manure.”

Years Care Remember Language President Conversation Speech Daughter Thirty Thirty Years Lawns Manure Fertilizer

Author:Bess Truman

“A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.”

Saint Lawns

Author:Alexander Pope

“To ferment your own food is to lodge a small but eloquent protest - on behalf of the senses and the microbes - against the homogenization of flavors and food experiences now rolling like a great, undifferentiated lawn across the globe.”

Senses Protest Globes Rolling Flavor Behalf Lawns Eloquent Lodges Microbes

Book:Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation

Source: Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation

“You just may be a redneck if your lawn furniture used to be your living room furniture.”

Ifs May Home Used House Rooms Used To Be Furniture Redneck Living Room Lawns

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“The Chain Letter to the Ephebians. Forget Your Gods. Be Subjugated. Learn to Fear. Do not break the chain -- the last people who did woke up one morning to find fifty thousand armed men on their lawn.”

People Men Lasts Forget Break Morning Thousand Letters Chains Fifty Lawns Forget You Discworld

Book:Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)

Source: Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)

“I looked at her. my lovely, tall mother with her pretty coil of hair and her hard, bitter mouth. Her veins were never open. Her heart never leapt out to flop helplessly on the lawn. She never melted into puddles. She was normal. Always. At any cost.”

Heart Hard Mother Hair Cost Normal Mouths Lovely Bitter Tall Veins Lawns Puddles

Book:We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

“The picture of Mother Teresa that I remember from my childhood is of a short, sari-wearing woman scurrying down a red gravel path between manicured lawns. She would have in tow one or two slower-footed, sari-clad young Indian nuns. We thought her a freak. Probably wed picked up on unvoiced opinions of our Loreto nuns.”

Two Remember Young Mother Opinion Path Childhood Red Indian Freak Lawns Nun Teresa Gravel Tow Sari

Author:Bharati Mukherjee

“I think I've always been drawn to the second person. When I was growing up and playing with my friends, the usual way we interacted with imaginary worlds was as characters: a bench was 'your' boat, leaves on a lawn were the fins of sharks out to get 'you.'”

Thinking World Way Persons Character Growing Up Growing My Friends Boat Usual Imaginary Benches Sharks Lawns Fins Imaginary World

Book:Discontent and its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London

Source: Discontent and its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London

“It's something he used to say when he was happy. It could be a very, very simple day. We might be sitting out on the front lawn. Dad loved classical music and we might be listening to some Stravinsky or something and having some tea and eggs. And he'd say, 'Oh, good stuff, isn't it?'”

Might Used Stuff Simple Fronts Listening Dad Sitting Tea Eggs Classical Music Lawns Stravinsky

Author:Jennifer Grant

“Surely among a rich man's flowering lawns, Amid the rustle of his planted hills, Life overflows without ambitious pains; And rains down life until the basin spills, And mounts more dizzy high the more it rains As though to choose whatever shape it wills.”

Men Life Pain Rich Shapes Rain Riches Hills Ambitious Lawns Spills Rich Man Flowering Overflow Dizzy

Book:The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition

Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition

“You cutting the lawn, fixing the machines, all this leprous day and then more vodka, more soda and the pond forgiving our bodies, the pond sucking out the throb.”

Body Cutting Machines Forgiving Lawns Fixing Ponds Soda Vodka

Book:The death notebooks

Source: The death notebooks

“Please do not take counsel of women who are so prejudiced that, as I once heard said, they would not allow a male grasshopper to chirp on their lawn; but out of your own great heart, refuse to set an example to such folly.”

Heart Said Heard Example Please Males Refuse Folly Lawns Great Hearts Grasshoppers

Author:Frances E. Willard

“Once our idea of heaven meant all the dead relatives waiting on the kept lawn of the many mansions as if, suddenly sinless, they had nothing to do.”

Ifs Ideas Heaven Waiting Lawns Mansions

Author:Deborah Digges

“PRESENTIMENT is that long shadow on the lawn Indicative that suns go down; The notice to the startled grass That darkness is about to pass.”

Long Darkness Sun Shadow Grass Lawns Long Shadows

Book:The Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson

“The tranquility of my room partakes too much of Forest Lawn.”

Rooms Silence Too Much Forests Tranquility Lawns

Author:Mason Cooley

“I was going to be the best paper boy ever. I used my Sting-Ray bike and got the papers there after school. People know I porched everything. No roofs, no lawns. I stopped the bike and nailed it. And if I ever missed, I would go pick it up and do it right.”

People Ifs Knows School Used Boys Paper Picks Being The Best Rays Roof Bike Papers Lawns After School

Author:Gary Carter

“The banker rubs his nose, thinking of his cat stalking something on the lawn.”

Thinking Cat Noses Bankers Lawns Stalking

Author:Mason Cooley

“When I won the Derby on Never Say Die I went home and cut the lawn. I haven't cut the lawn since.”

Home Dies Cutting Havens Lawns Derby

Author:Lester Piggott

“The grass is always greener once you don't have to mow a lawn anymore.”

Grass Maturity Lawns Greener Grass Is Always Greener

Author:R. K. Milholland

“Out on the lawn I lie in bed, Vega conspicuous overhead.”

Lying Bed Vegas Lawns Overhead

Author:W. H. Auden

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