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It was pretty tough for Paul in New York, ... Sometimes fans feel the grass is greener in terms of someone else doing a better job, but that's not necessarily the case.

It's what Jonathan Swift suggested two and a half centuries ago: making two blades of grass grow where one grew before - and doing it in such a way that doesn't deplete the earth's resources.

It's very good. Our players enjoyed it. It's the soft grass instead of that hard stuff. It's excellent.

They would cut the grass for you. ... We sat down and had beers.

These other states, they don't let grass grow, so we've got to get it.

Sloping land is somewhat impermeable to water, thus a considerable amount of water is lost by runoff. Crops grown on these sites are less likely to be adversely impacted by saturated soil conditions during prolonged rainy periods, but are prone to a loss of natural fertility due to erosion. Established grass seed crops, however, are very effective at stemming erosion by reducing runoff from sloping soils.

Every time your car leaks, every time you wash your car, every time you mow your grass too short, you're making a choice that can, potentially, impair a watershed. What we are trying to educate about is, there is an alternative -- there are other things you can do to protect and conserve clean water resources.

Around the greens, it's horrendous as far as I'm concerned. I think the fairway rough is fair. But they have five or six different types of grass around the greens and it's patchy.

Around the greens, it's horrendous as far as I'm concerned, ... I think the fairway rough is fair. But they have five or six different types of grass around the greens and it's patchy.

The international players definitely have a different style and a lot of that depends on where they are coming from. Clay players are more patient and play away from the net while the grass and hard court players are more similar to Americans in that they are aggressive.

The fan feedback we received we can not ignore. Dragon Stadium is a very fine stadium, but our players and fans want the Burn to play on a grass soccer field and we want to be receptive to that need.

I'm sure the grounds crews will take good care of the fields. And one thing about Louisiana, it is not hard to grow grass and get it fixed up and ready to grow the next day. Stuff grows fast down there.

In a way, (the rules) makes (the Masters) different, and it makes it special and it makes it unique. But then again, it's still a golf tournament. It's the players that make that tournament. It's Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods battling down the stretch that makes that event successful on television around the world. It's not how green the grass is on the No. 1 fairway.

I knew I was in for a tough match even though grass isn't his surface and I am just delighted to win,

I'm looking at something on my wall. It says jogging 6 miles an hour at 150 pounds is 11.6 calories a minute, and mowing grass is 4.1 calories per minute. When I'm jogging, am I really expending 11.6 calories? I don't know that for sure, but I certainly know I'm burning more calories jogging than mowing the lawn.

I have no objection to promoting abstinence, but where that is not an option anymore, we should promote prevention strategies that work. I think that having it being driven by the grass roots up is the best way to go.

I haven't done any major fund-raising efforts. It's a local election. It should be grass roots.

I had a picture of a seven-year-old throwing a Frisbee around on the grass but it's treated as a spiritual place.

I never saw them selling anything, and, in fact, I never saw any plant or grass for sale in that house.

I need to improve, I want to improve, and to be able to stay in London and play on grass before Wimbledon is a very good opportunity for me.

I'll be talking a lot about the book, which I think has something for everybody from beginner to expert. I've tried to include practical information, such as how to fish an estuary or grass flat, so people will walk away with something they can use.

I'm a tremendous believer now. It's about as much like grass as you can have a synthetic surface be. I really think the right decision was made. This is great for everyone. Players love it, and I think this surface will offer a better product on the field for fans.

If you are planning a garden and decide you need help, this is a great time to talk to landscape designers or contractors and start the process. They aren't as busy as they will be when the grass turns green.

In the story shoes are just a metaphor for what these girls go through, ... The grass is always greener and everyone always wants to be in somebody else's shoes; they don't want to be in their own.

I just wanted to capture the feeling you get on a summer day when you're drunk and you're rolling about on the grass with the person you love next to you.

I long for scenes where man has never trod A place where woman never smiled or wept There to abide with my Creator God And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept, Untroubling and untroubled where I lie The grass below, above, the vaulted sky.

I prefer hardcourts (more) than clay. My best results have always been on grass or indoor tournaments or hardcourt tournaments, so (it?s) definitely my favorite surface.

I pulled out of the Franklin County search on the 10th of March. I said I wouldn't leave William Campbell unless it was the perfect fit. I didn't think it was a perfect job. I'm happy at William Campbell. I've have a great coaching staff, we got a new bermuda grass field. I'll be here for another year.

In 12 years of playing, I've never been on a team that won a playoff game. That was awesome. They were singing the fight song. Cars were lined up in the grass out there. There must have been a thousand people around.

I just have to get used to it. The outfield grass is different than the infield grass. I learned that. I did well for my first time. I had fun out there.

But I don't think switch grass is on anybody's radar. Until President Bush said it in the State of the Union address, nobody knew what it was.

But I definitely feel like grass suits my game, as well, and I feel like probably if I could pick a surface, it would be grass to play her on.

Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.

By grass root building, I mean we will increase the ability and vitality of local police stations, the criminal police force, patrolling policemen and so on.

Get high on grass - the legal kind

Wait a minute! This is grass! We've been eating grass!

Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn.

There's not another drug in life that I'm glad I took but grass.

I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows.

I'd get fined if I let my grass grow.

I don't think anyone can ever be fully happy. If you're fully happy then you're a miserable person because the grass is always greener on the other side-it has to be. I'm not saying I'm miserable-in fact I'm the happiest I've been for a long time, but I'm no happier than I was when I was at school. Then again, I'm more miserable than when I was at school.

I feel a lot better running on this field (at the U.) everyday than I did in Arizona on their turf. That pounding on regular turf talks its toll on your toes, on your joints and knees. We appreciate this right here. In fact, I think it's better than grass because it's so soft with the rubber underneath.

He's got a big game and a big future. I never really felt I was in control of his service games. You're looking at the future of American tennis. He's a standout. He's got a big serve and grass is a surface he's going to get better on.

However, we are excited at the prospect of fielding both men's and women's football teams in 2012, which will be a real boost to the grass roots of the sport, particularly women's football, over the coming seven years.

I cannot win this year but I can play good on grass

Color is bigger than ever, ... We have been talking about color for a few years, and this season it is taking off. With our idea of fused color, it is off the chart. We are mixing lavender with grass and salmon with tangerines. Really beautiful -- green and yellow all in the same lens, and it just gives it a fabulous effect.

He came all the way from Grass Valley. All he does is listen to the Eagles,

Grass which many of the houses still have and that's mostly because they have their own water company their own wells so that makes a huge difference." ()

Grass is what soccer was meant to be played in. I'm ecstatic about keeping grass here at Robertson Stadium.

For some people, the grass is always greener somewhere else. In my mind, there's not a better place to coach than Victoria.

I am not playing Wimbledon because I am allergic to grass.

I guess the grass is always greener elsewhere.

We're not raising grass. We're raising boys.

I'm Allergic to grass. Hey, it could be worse. I could be allergic to beer.

There've been a lot more people hurt on astro-turf than grass.

What the younger generation didn't understand was that the grass was greenest where it's watered..

Ive been an engineer, barman, skip lorry driver, coalman, boat window manufacturer, contract grass cutter and builder.

I don't know whether I prefer Astroturf to grass. I never smoked Astroturf.

How do you expect the Germans to revolt when they don't even dare walk on the grass?

Grass is growing on the Front Bench.

Apparently I don't do stairs, I won't walk on carpet and I refuse to walk on grass. How do I do to get around, hover?

This is a grass roots initiative that will potentially expand nationwide. The registry will expedite response efforts for emergencies affecting the health and wellness of citizens.

The guy (pitcher Jarrod Washburn ) fell ... it's a base hit. They scored it right the first time. We just happened to score two runs and (the Angels) probably complained after the game in their home park, but what's fair is fair. And the truth of the matter is the guy came off the mound hard to field a bunt, his spikes got caught a little bit on the grass and he slid, and C.C. had the play beat once that happened.

The impatience of young players today is unfortunate. Sometimes the grass is not always greener. Sometimes it's better for a young person to work through some difficulty as Darnell has. Now it comes back to him twofold, tenfold maybe.

The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

The field turf product in the Dome is only a month old, and what makes it different is that it's the closest thing to natural grass that you can get in an artificial surface. And it's the preferred surface of the NFL.

I love tennis, but I just don't like grass.

The 'Desert' sweeps up to the walls of Baghdad, but it is a misnomer to call the vast level of rich, stoneless, alluvial soil a desert. It is a dead flat of uninhabited earth; orange colocynth balls, a little wormwood, and some alkaline plants which camels eat, being its chief products. After the inundations, reedy grass grows in the hollows.

Ach, Rangers are alright, but they still haven’t invented blue grass.

The lawn will look as good as you want it to. And it's safe enough to eat the grass after it's treated.

The longer Bermuda gets, the weaker the grass is, the blade itself, and it doesn't withstand the weight of the ball and the ball drops all the way to the bottom. Out West, the blade's wider. It's thicker, heavier grass, and the ball (rarely) reaches the ground.

While the grass groweth the horse starveth.

Summer — summer — summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!

This soft grass suggests 'softness' to me, but also at the same time 'lying-down-ness'.

To kill the grass you must also remove the root

We will burn the old grass and the new will grow.

Please keep off the grass.

You call yourself some kind of goddess and you know nothing, madam, nothing. What don't die can't live. What don't live can't change. What don't change can't learn. The smallest creature that dies in the grass knows more than you.

It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.

It's good to touch the green, green grass of home

I am solitary as grass. What is it I miss? Shall I ever find it, whatever it is?

I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf. (When asked whether he preferred grass or Astroturf

What is the difference between astroturf and grass? I don't know, I never smoked astroturf.

deep in the meadow , under the willow , a bed of grass , a soft green pillow

Direct me gods, whose changes are all holy, To where it flickers deep in grass, the moly.

The aged are terrible - mere heaps of cinders on the grass from which none can tell how tall the flames once were or what company gathered round them.

Research is a scientific activity dedicated to discovering what makes grass green.

Well, what do you owe yourself? Do you dare take time out to listen to the grass grow, or can you even afford the expense of getting far enough away from life's daily cacophony to hear it grow if you took the time?

Trees have judicial standing, and probably grass too.

How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green!

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the best of us walk about well wadded with stupidity.

He who is afraid of every nettle should not piss in the grass

Whoever makes two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, deserves better of mankind, and does more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together

You have to die because no soul has passedThe heavenly threshold since you have opened school,But grass grows there, and rust upon the hinge;And they are lonely that must keep the watch.

Well could I curse away a winter's night,Though standing naked on a mountain top,Where biting cold would never let grass grow,And think it but a minute spent in sport.

Never overlook wallflower at dance; may be dandelion in grass.

When the wind blows,the grass bends.

Teenagers have to discover the product. (Then) they tell their friends and it grows through a grass roots marketing effort

One had a lovely face, and two or three had charm, but charm and face were in vain. Because the mountain grass cannot keep the form where the mountain hare has lain.

I hear the wind a blowI hear the grass a grow,And all that I know, I know.But I will not speak, I will run away.