Grasshoppers Quotes

• Now climb, young grasshopper, so your Kung Fu won't be weak.

  Ilona Andrews

  Kung Fu, Weak, Young

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.53, Penguin

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• You are unique, and this is a beautiful, beautiful thing, grasshopper.

  Libba Bray

  Beautiful, Unique, Beautiful Things

  Libba Bray (2003). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.416, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Fighting, Judgement, Trying

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• My dear young fellow,' the Old-Green-Grasshopper said gently, 'there are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet.

  Roald Dahl

  World, Green, Trying New Things

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• How narrow is the vision that exalts the busyness of the ant above the singing of the grasshopper.

  Khalil Gibran

  Singing, Vision, Ants

  Khalil Gibran "La nueva frontera y la arena y la espuma", Biblioteca de Alejandría

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• El saltamontes siempre se equivoca en la discusión con la gallina.

  Bertrand Russell

  Wisdom, Argument, Chickens

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• You need to learn patience, you grasshopper

  Nicholas Sparks

  Necesita

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• Pequeño saltador verde, en la hierba soleada, Atrapando tu corazón al sentir de junio, Único ruido que se oye en medio del mediodía perezoso, Cuando ev'n las abejas la zaga en el latón de convocatoria.

  Leigh Hunt

  Corazón, Junio, Perezoso

  James Henry Leigh Hunt, "Al saltamontes y al grillo"

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• Todos los niños deberían tener pasteles de barro, saltamontes, bichos de agua, renacuajos, ranas, tortugas de barro, bayas de saúco, fresas silvestres, bellotas, castañas, árboles a los que trepar. Arroyos que vadear, nenúfares, marmotas, murciélagos, abejas, mariposas, diversos animales que acariciar, campos de heno, piñas de pino, rocas que rodar, arena, serpientes, arándanos y avispones; y cualquier niño que se haya visto privado de todo esto se ha visto privado de la mejor parte de la educación.

  Luther Burbank

  Niños, Mariposa, Animal

  Luther Burbank (2000). "La formación de la planta humana", p.91, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• When a man makes alliance with the Almighty, giants look like grasshoppers.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Men, Giants

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• Patience, grasshopper," said Maia. "Good things come to those who wait." "I always thought that was 'Good things come to those who do the wave,'" said Simon. "No wonder I've been so confused all my life.

  Cassandra Clare

  Confused, Waiting, Wonder

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1377, Simon and Schuster

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• Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning's gentle wine! Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; 'Tis fill'd wherever thou dost tread, Nature's self's thy Ganymede.

  Abraham Cowley

  Morning, Wine, Self

  Abraham Cowley (1772). “Select works of mr. A. Cowley [ed. by R. Hurd].”, p.148

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• Porque media docena de saltamontes bajo un helecho hacen resonar el campo con su importuno chirrido, mientras miles de grandes reses, reposadas bajo la sombra del roble británico, rumian y callan, ruega que no se imagine que los que hacen el ruido son los únicos habitantes del campo; que, por supuesto, son muchos en número; o que, después de todo, son otros que los pequeños, arrugados, exiguos, saltarines, aunque ruidosos y molestos insectos del momento.

  Edmund Burke

  Números, Imaginación, Sombra

  Edmund Burke (1963). "Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches", p.557, Transaction Publishers

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• Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate.

  Augusto Roa Bastos

  Men, Copying, Generations

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• Todo llega a quien espera.

  Violeta Fane

  Paciencia, Divertido Inspirador, Cambio de vida

  Violet Fane (1872). "Del alba al mediodía: Poemas", p.85

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• Giddy grasshopper Take care...do not leap and crush These pearls of dewdrop

  Kobayashi Issa

  Crush, Care, Pearls

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• No means yes in grasshopper language.

  Noel Fielding

  Divertido, Malo, Humor

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• Mejor sería que los dioses bebieran su néctar alegremente, y los hombres cantaran el día como saltamontes, para que tal vez adormecieran el trueno vigilante.

  Hartley Coleridge

  Men, May, Thunder

  Hartley Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge (1851). "Poemas", p.272

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• Las cosas buenas llegan a los que inician.

  Susan RoAne

  Paciencia, Fitness, Entrenamiento

  Susan RoAne (2009). "Face to Face: How to Reclaim the Personal Touch in a Digital World", p.21, Simon and Schuster.

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• Personally I am very fond of strawberries and cream, but I have found that for some strange reason, fish prefer worms. So when I went fishing, I didn’t think about what I wanted. I thought about what they wanted. I didn't bait the hook with strawberries and cream. Rather, I dangled a worm or grasshopper in front of the fish and said: "Wouldn't you like to have that?" Why not use the same common sense when fishing for people?

  Dale Carnegie

  Thinking, Fishing, People

  Dale Carnegie (2016). "How to win friends & influence people", p.36, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd.

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• Jefes que ya no se enzarzan en luchas sangrientas, pero sabios a través del tiempo, y narrativos con la edad, En los días de verano como saltamontes se regocijan - Una raza sin sangre, que envía una débil voz.

  Alexander Pope

  Summer, Wise, War

  Alexander Pope (1830). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope (including His Translation of Homer). To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author, by Dr. Johnson”, p.233

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• Feeling well that breathed words Would all be lost, unheard, and vain as swords Against the enchased crocodile, or leaps Of grasshoppers against the sun.

  John Keats

  Feelings, Sun, Vain

  John Keats (2015). “The Complete Poetry of John Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn + Ode to a Nightingale + Hyperion + Endymion + The Eve of St. Agnes + Isabella + Ode to Psyche + Lamia + Sonnets and more from one of the most beloved English Romantic poets”, p.534, e-artnow

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• Patience, grasshopper," I counseled. "You don't want to seem overeager." "Right, that's why I said tomorrow," he said. "I want to see you again tonight. But I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow.

  John Green

  Noche, Esperar, Querer

  John Green (2012). "La Falla en Nuestras Estrellas", p.29, Penguin

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• I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Memorable, News, Journalism

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.148

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• Crowds of bees are giddy with clover
  Crowds of grasshoppers skip at our feet,
  Crowds of larks at their matins hang over,
  Thanking the Lord for a life so sweet.

  Jean Ingelow

  Sweet, Feet, Bees

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.1

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