Famous quotes containing the words tender and/or grass:
“The tender skin does not shrink from bayonets, the timid woman is not scared by fagots; the rack is not frightful, nor the rope ignominious. The poor Puritan, Antony Parsons, at the stake, tied straw on his head when the fire approached him, and said, “This is God’s hat.””
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Walking around in the park
Should feel better than work:
The lake, the sunshine,
The grass to lie on....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)