Greener On The Other Side Quotes:

The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. No, not at all. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.

- Robert Fulghum

source: Robert Fulghum (2010). “It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It”, p.160, Ivy Books

topic: Water, May, Facts, Fencing, Crossings

If the grass looks greener on the other side, it is probably astroturf.

- Nicky Gumbel

source: Twitter post from Apr 03, 2013

topic: Encouragement, Looks, Sides, Grass Is Always Greener, Greener

The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. The grass is greenest where it is watered.

- Robert Fulghum

topic: Grass Is Greener On The Other Side, Sides, Fence, Grass Is Always Greener, Greener

Even if you think the grass is greener on the other side, you’re going to have to mow that side too.

- Joyce Meyer

source: Twitter post from Sep 19, 2012

topic: Thinking, Grass Is Greener On The Other Side, Sides, Greener, Grass Is Greener

It's not that the grass is greener on the other side, it's that you can never be on both sides of the lawn at the same time.

- Laura Fraser

topic: Grass Is Greener On The Other Side, Sides, Lawns, Greener, Grass Is Greener

If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher.

- Debbie Macomber

topic: Envy, Water, Bills, Grass Is Always Greener, Greener

And I'd like to give my love to everybody, and let them know that the grass may look greener on the other side, but believe me, it's just as hard to cut.

- Little Richard

source: FaceBook post by Little Richard from Jan 03, 2016

topic: Fake People, Believe, Cutting, Greener, Grass Is Greener On The Other Side

If the grass is greener on the other side it`s probably getting better care. Success is a matter of sticking to a set of common sense principles anyone can master.

- Earl Nightingale

topic: Common Sense, Get Better, Principles, Grass Is Greener On The Other Side, Grass Is Greener

You know how they say the grass is always greener on the other side? It is greener, because you're not there. And if you go you'll trample it and leave dirty footprints and probably spill something poisonous.

- Ekaterina Sedia

topic: Dirty, Sides, Footprint, Grass Is Always Greener, Greener On The Other Side

Love dies in many different ways, and it's natural for the grass to seem greener on the other side. But it's not a competition; there's plenty of pain to go around.

- Rob Sheffield

topic: Pain, Competition, Different, Grass Is Greener On The Other Side, Greener On The Other Side

If dragons were common, and you could look at one in the zoo - but zebras were a rare legendary creature that had finally been decided to be mythical - then there's a certain sort of person who would ignore dragons, who would never bother to look at dragons, and chase after rumors of zebras. The grass is always greener on the other side of reality. Which is rather setting ourselves up for eternal disappointment, eh? If we cannot take joy in the merely real, our lives shall be empty indeed.

- Eliezer Yudkowsky

topic: Zoos, Zebras, Disappointment, Grass Is Always Greener, Greener

The grass isn't always greener on the other side!

- Ricky Gervais

source: "Fictional character: David Brent". "The Office (TV Series) Motivation", www.imdb.com. 2002.

topic: Grass Is Greener On The Other Side, Sides, Grass Growing, Grass Is Always Greener, Greener

Perhaps passing through the gates of death is like passing quietly through the gate in a pasture fence. On the other side, you keep walking, without the need to look back. No shock, no drama, just the lifting of a plank or two in a simple wooden gate in a clearing. Neither pain, nor floods of light, nor great voices, but just the silent crossing of a meadow.

- Mark Helprin

source: Mark Helprin (1991). “A Soldier of the Great War”, Harcourt

topic: Death, Prayer, Pain, No Drama, Clearing

But the grass ain't always greener on the other side, It's green where you water it

- Justin Bieber

source: Song: As Long As You Love Me Acoustic Version, Album: Believe Acoustic, 2013

topic: Water, Grass Is Greener On The Other Side, Sides, Grass Is Always Greener, Grass Is Greener

The grass is not always greener on the other side. You learn to appreciate these people.

- Kevin Durant

topic: Inspirational, Basketball, Mvp, Grass Is Always Greener, Greener

The grass isn't always greener on the other side. I start off kind of in love and then I leave love and I'm single.

- Miguel

source: Source: us.napster.com

topic: Sides, Kind, Grass, Greener On The Other Side

Alone of all the races on earth, they seem to be free from the 'Grass is Greener on the other side of the fence' syndrome, and roundly proclaim that Australia is, in fact, the other side of that fence.

- Douglas Adams

topic: Race, Australia, Earth, Greener, Grass Is Greener On The Other Side

Of course the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. Why do you think the neighbors put up the fence?

- Teresa Bloomingdale

topic: Thinking, Sides, Neighbor, Greener, Grass Is Greener On The Other Side

Everybody thinks the grass is greener on the other side. If you talk to most artists, they think they can play something, you know, "If I had stayed playing football in high school, if I had been doing basketball..." Everybody's got their fantasies and thinks the grass is greener. It's not. It's not.

- Ice Cube

source: "Ice Cube: 'I don't shed any tears' for Donald Sterling". Interview with Michael Huang, www.espn.com. August 7, 2015.

topic: Basketball, Football, School, Greener, Grass Is Greener On The Other Side

The contract stuff just happens to be a coincidence to me. I always play every game as if my back is against the wall. That's always something that has been good to me since high school. A lot of people believe the grass is greener on the other side, but I'm not one of those people. It wouldn't be my choice to leave, but the Seahawks know that.

- Shaun Alexander

topic: Wall, Believe, School, Grass Is Greener On The Other Side, Grass Is Greener

I’ve talked to guys who have played for the Phillies and gone on to other organizations and the grass isn’t always greener on the other side.

- Chase Utley

topic: Organization, Guy, Gone, Greener, Greener On The Other Side

The grass is always greener on the other side, unless Vince Russo has been there in which case the grass is most likely dead.

- Jim Cornette

topic: Wrestling, Sides, Grass, Grass Is Always Greener, Greener On The Other Side