Famous quotes containing the words singing and/or grass:
“The cuckoo is a lazy bird,
She never builds a nest,
She makes herself busy
By singing to the rest.”
—Unknown. The Cuckoo (l. 912)
“If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principleabsolute busynessthen utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busyand without consciousness.”
—Günther Grass (b. 1927)