--- title: "3 Green eyes Quotes By Ken Ilgunas" description: "3 Green eyes quotes by Ken Ilgunas. Plus more from Ken Ilgunas and more Green eyes sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d9/ken-ilgunas-26210_clean-water_i-felt-a-strange-twinge-of-anger-looking_236510.jpg" --- > [“I felt a strange twinge of anger looking at the stars. It was as if I’d just learned of an inheritance that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ken-ilgunas/i-felt-a-strange-twinge-of-anger-looking-at-the-stars-it-was-as-if-i/) [Ken Ilgunas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ken-ilgunas/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d9/ken-ilgunas-26210_clean-water_i-felt-a-strange-twinge-of-anger-looking_236510.jpg) > [“We can only miss what we once possessed. We can only feel wronged when we realize something has been stolen from us.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ken-ilgunas/we-can-only-miss-what-we-once-possessed-we-can-only-feel-wronged-when/) [Ken Ilgunas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ken-ilgunas/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c4b/ken-ilgunas-26210_clean-water_we-can-only-miss-what-we-once-possessed_877839.jpg) > [“only feel wronged when we realize something has been stolen from us. We can’t miss the million-strong flocks of passenger pigeons that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ken-ilgunas/only-feel-wronged-when-we-realize-something-has-been-stolen-from-us/) [Ken Ilgunas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ken-ilgunas/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a24/ken-ilgunas-26210_clean-water_only-feel-wronged-when-we-realize-someth_1003617.jpg) ## Other authors on Green eyes ## More by Ken Ilgunas > [“Perhaps there’s no better act of simplification than climbing a mountain. For an afternoon, a day, or a week, it’s a way of reducing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ken-ilgunas/perhaps-there-s-no-better-act-of-simplification-than-climbing-a/) [Ken Ilgunas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ken-ilgunas/) > [“... But these skeptics are only selectively skeptical. They think themselves enlightened for resisting all this new proof and remaining steadfast in mistrusting anything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ken-ilgunas/but-these-skeptics-are-only-selectively-skeptical-they-think/) [Ken Ilgunas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ken-ilgunas/) > [“I learned such a glimpse cannot be gotten with half-hearted journeys and soft endeavors. Nor could I hope for such a glimpse merely by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ken-ilgunas/i-learned-such-a-glimpse-cannot-be-gotten-with-half-hearted-journeys/) [Ken Ilgunas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ken-ilgunas/) > [“I felt a strange twinge of anger looking at the stars. It was as if I’d just learned of an inheritance that had been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ken-ilgunas/i-felt-a-strange-twinge-of-anger-looking-at-the-stars-it-was-as-if-i/) [Ken Ilgunas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ken-ilgunas/) > [“I could sense the slightest abridgment of my freedom like a princess who can feel the impression of a pea under forty featherbeds. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ken-ilgunas/i-could-sense-the-slightest-abridgment-of-my-freedom-like-a-princess/) [Ken Ilgunas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ken-ilgunas/) > [“Like us, many students had spent their years in college thinking they’d get that well-paying, planet-saving job, even if they’d heard horror stories from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ken-ilgunas/like-us-many-students-had-spent-their-years-in-college-thinking-they/) [Ken Ilgunas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ken-ilgunas/) > [“I am a member of the “career-less generation.” Or the “screwed generation.” Unlike previous generations, the members of my generation won’t get jobs and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ken-ilgunas/i-am-a-member-of-the-career-less-generation-or-the-screwed-generation/) [Ken Ilgunas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ken-ilgunas/) > [“Sometimes, to cede control to fate, I realized, is to assume more control than ever before. I wasn’t just traveling anymore. I was traveling…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ken-ilgunas/sometimes-to-cede-control-to-fate-i-realized-is-to-assume-more/) [Ken Ilgunas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ken-ilgunas/) > [“We have trains to hop, voyages to embark on, and rides to hitch. And then there’s the great American wild—vanishing but still there—ready to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ken-ilgunas/we-have-trains-to-hop-voyages-to-embark-on-and-rides-to-hitch-and/) [Ken Ilgunas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ken-ilgunas/) > [“On this voyage, I couldn't help but think we need need. We need to be forced to go outside. We need to be forced…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ken-ilgunas/on-this-voyage-i-couldn-t-help-but-think-we-need-need-we-need-to-be/) [Ken Ilgunas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ken-ilgunas/) > [“Be a devotee in the Church of the Consumer and you’ll forever live in fear of the capricious God of Style. Freedom, though, is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ken-ilgunas/be-a-devotee-in-the-church-of-the-consumer-and-you-ll-forever-live-in/) [Ken Ilgunas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ken-ilgunas/) > [ “It was strange how it was always the poor who picked us up \[hitchhiking\]...They dwelled beneath poverty lines and were undereducated, but they were...more… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ken-ilgunas/it-was-strange-how-it-was-always-the-poor-who-picked-us-up/) [Ken Ilgunas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ken-ilgunas/) > [“We can only miss what we once possessed. We can only feel wronged when we realize something has been stolen from us. We can’t…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ken-ilgunas/we-can-only-miss-what-we-once-possessed-we-can-only-feel-wronged-when/) [Ken Ilgunas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ken-ilgunas/) > [“My SOUTH sign stopped working on an entrance ramp in a sleepy farm town called Kittitas in the state of Washington. A man who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ken-ilgunas/my-south-sign-stopped-working-on-an-entrance-ramp-in-a-sleepy-farm/) [Ken Ilgunas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ken-ilgunas/) > [“only feel wronged when we realize something has been stolen from us. We can’t miss the million-strong flocks of passenger pigeons that once blackened…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ken-ilgunas/only-feel-wronged-when-we-realize-something-has-been-stolen-from-us/) [Ken Ilgunas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ken-ilgunas/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/green-eyes/ken-ilgunas/#itemlist", "name": "3 Green eyes Quotes By Ken Ilgunas", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I felt a strange twinge of anger looking at the stars. It was as if I’d just learned of an inheritance that had been stolen from me. 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