Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.
Rugby is just a ball. I would be much more versed to coach American football, but you need 22 players and all of the equipment. With rugby, all you need is some green grass, a ball, and a bunch of kids who want to run into each other really hard, which they enjoy.
When you visit a foreign city you are in it, but not of it, separated by a glass wall. Once, while a student, I was getting dressed in my ground-floor room when a family of Italians crossed the grass to watch, as if I were laid on for their amusement and instruction.
The Bible tells us that God will meet all our needs. He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the grass with the splendor of lilies. How much more, then, will He care for us, who are made in His image? Our only concern is to obey the heavenly Father and leave the consequences to Him.
That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
I cut grass, I did yard work, I did roofing, I cleaned basements to take care of my family.
Being outside on the grass is the easy, enjoyable part of being a footballer.
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.
My experience on clay is less than possibly on hard and grass courts, but in terms of my game style and my physical abilities, I think there’s no reason why I can’t adapt well to the surface and really try to maximize what I can do well on clay.
I was jogging in the grass while on a warm-up and there was a sprinkler hole. I rolled my ankle, and it was really bad.
Robots do not hold on to life. They can’t. They have nothing to hold on with – no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.
You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
My instincts led me to meditate in the woods when I was a kid. I would emerge at sunset and announce to my family that we are all connected beings. I would watch the grass grow and dance with trees and realize that I was a necessary part of the inter-workings of the world.
A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.
Everything dies, from the smallest blade of grass to the biggest galaxy.
If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.
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.
I was about 13 or 14 when I heard Malcolm X’s speech ‘Message to the Grass Roots.’
I can play well on grass. Everyone keeps on telling me that.
You may have heard that back in the States there are some people who are smoking grass. I don’t know how you feel, but it’s sure easier than cutting the stuff.
And I’d like to give my love to everybody, and let them know that the grass may look greener on the other side, but believe me, it’s just as hard to cut.
Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.
I’m not here to say I don’t eat vegetables – I do, a lot of them – but, from a soil perspective, they’re actually more costly than a cow grazing on grass.
I can play on grass – when I won Junior Wimbledon, that was an unbelievable feeling, I could not believe that I had won the tournament, as Wimbledon is like the holy place of tennis.
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.
My game is suited to grass because I’m really aggressive on the court. I have a big serve, I’m quick, I hit the ball hard, and I go to net so I have everything a player needs to do well on grass.
How many colours are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of ‘green’? How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye?
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.
When I was in charge of the Christian Coalition I was available to mobilize grass roots support for somebody.
For me, riding a two-wheeler bike was very risky. Counting the pedal strokes before turning a corner and learning to hear the sounds coming from buildings, grass and the climbing frame made all the difference to basic survival and ensured that I didn’t end up head-first in the sandpit.
But the worst of all is, according to the old phrase, while the grass grows, the horse starves, but the man of money is the man for Nova Scotia. Those may do extremely well.
I pass through the difficult moments in life, really difficult times on grass, during my seven years of my career. All of a sudden I felt comfortable.
All I see is that grass and open field, and I just run like there’s no tomorrow.
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.
I can’t sit on grass without a blanket.
With time, I’ve got more used to grass, and I think my style of game helps.
My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were. Some of them could not run up a hill and called it trying to climb stairs.
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.
You need good fitness from the players and the organisational structure has to be there from early on in pre-season because the games come so quickly that you don’t have much time on the grass with the players to shuffle the pack tactically.
It is possible to set your standards too high, which can undermine a man’s confidence and ability to perform. Instead of reaching for the stars and settling for the moon, there is considerable evidence that man is better served reaching for a blade of grass and settling for an under-the-table handshake deal.
There are some things that are real, that you can see, that you can observe, like the moon, and grass and things. But for ideas to become real, they have to be played on your senses.
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’.
In 2017, Kante has been fantastic and is almost two players at times. He covers every blade of grass and he’s not short of technique. He would get in any team because there’s room for that type of player no matter what system you play or level you play at.
When I was 7, I started playing with a club. The only grass on the field was in the corner. There was no grass in the middle! It was just sand.
It is difficult to determine the cause of grass fires. There is usually nothing left behind when we get there, like a cigarette or a gas can, for us to determine what started it.
You always have groups that want to come after the big bad developer. They don’t want to see anything done. Don’t disturb a blade of grass; just freeze the world in time. It validates them.
Wimbledon is quite simply the ultimate championship, and I’d be the first to admit it was the one I wanted to win. A lot has to do with the history and the tradition: the grass courts, the royal box, the grand spectacle of it all.
I like almost everything, even country twang, disco, blue grass and accordions.
Engineers are now experimenting with 4,096-line TV systems, suggesting that with the next generation of sets you’ll be able to count the grass blades on the Superbowl field, an obvious lifestyle improvement.
In countries or places where an appropriate grass surface is not an option, then turf is indeed a great alternative. But that is only when grass does not or cannot grow.
From the rough, I’d use a 6-iron, play the ball back an inch or two and swing down on a steeper angle to catch the ball first. It also helps to aim slightly left and open the clubface at address. You’ll get more height on the shot, and the club will cut through the grass more easily.
Playing from deep grass is a fact of life in professional golf.
There is a part of me that will forever want to be walking under autumn leaves, carrying a briefcase containing the works of Shakespeare and Yeats and a portable chess set. I will pass an old tree under which once on a summer night I lay on the grass with a fragrant young woman and we quoted e.e. cummings back and forth.
Mikhail Youzhny likes the grass and has plenty of weapons to hurt you with.
‘Bloom’ is basically the idea that all flesh is grass, and that we can look at natural plant growth and organic material as outgrowths of the Earth.
Paying a royalty to someone for prepping an ebook is akin to paying the kid who cuts your grass a percentage of the purchase price when you sell your house. It makes no sense.
I go out and walk around the yard. Sometimes I’ll cut grass.
Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.
