Grasshoppers Quotes

“I’ve learnt to gather simplicity from grasshoppers. I like their naive indecisive minds never knowing exactly when to stop chirping, and I envy their ability to be able to mingle with the green…”
― Munia Khan

“The heaven of a grasshopper is the wheat field; the heaven of man is the same place, the very earth itself where we get our food and build our happiness!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Life is in stages.
There is a stage where, like grasshoppers, we hop from grass to grass.
And another, where we move from grass to grace.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“Thousands of grasshoppers were jumping everywhere; I felt like I was walking through popping popcorn. These critters made me conscious of my surroundings, since many snakes eat grasshoppers. When it comes to rattlesnakes and copperheads, the locals there have a saying that the “Third person gets bit.” The theory is: the first person gets the snake’s attention, the second person gets the snake aggravated, and the third person gets bit. There were only two of us, but I didn’t feel like testing the theory.”
― Dennis R. Blanchard, Three Hundred Zeroes: Lessons of the Heart on the Appalachian Trail

“The grasshoppers and the crickets, indifferent to our dilemma, jumped between our legs like myriads of animated, loaded springs.”
― Philippe Saimbert, Aunt Lucie's legacy

“Grasshoppers grow crops never:
No hands they have to hold spades;
Nor have they harrows to level fields;
Only have they long trunks to suck.”
― Geeta Tripathee