God's Warrior
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GrassThe voice said, Cry, And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the fields:
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
- Bible, Isaiah (ch. XL, v. 6-7)
Grass
Tan Chade Meng
When I have the time to take a walk, I would often take the time to admire the grass. Grass doesn't make a fuss. It doesn't try to be beautiful or outstanding. It doesn't want to attract attention. It is so humble that it even allows people to walk all over it. Yet, it possess such strength. It glows in healthy green despite being stepped all over, and when a typhoon strikes and all the flowers die and all the trees get uprooted, humble grass survives. And humble grass, in its own humble way, provides food for animals, shelter for insects, and joy to some funny guy walking past. I think a virtuous man should be like grass. Humble, unnoticed, yet possessing great strength and kindness.
Grass grows at last above all graves.
- Julia Caroline Ripley
A blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another.
- Samuel Johnson
The green grass floweth like a stream
Into the oceans's blue.
- James Russell Lowell,
O'er the smooth enamell'd green
Where no print of step hath been.
- John Milton, Arcades
I am the grass.
Let me work.
- Carl Sandburg, Grass
Ay, sir, but 'while the grass grows'--the proverb is something musty.
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, ii)
How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green!
- William Shakespeare, The Tempest (Gonzalo at II, i)
Whylst grass doth grow, oft sterves the seely steede.
- George Whetstone, Promos and Cassandra
Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects.
Oscar Wilde
Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal.
John J. Ingalls (1874)
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