Green Quotes
1927 Green quotes by 1331 unique authors
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When I look out the window, I exhale a prayer of thanks for the color green, for my children's safety, for the simple acts of…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus." - John Richard…
— John Arbuthnot
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Before you rip off three feet of toilet paper, consider that each year 500,000 acres of virgin boreal forest in northern Alberta and Ontario are…
— Alex Shoumatoff
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Right now my mind is on the people who stole our instruments, and, specifically, the person with my guitar, which will no doubt end its…
— Jonny Greenwood
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We do not go to the green woods and crystal waters to rough it, we go to smooth it. We get it rough enough at…
— Unknown Author
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The leaf, still green, must someday fall such grief and joy to live at all.
— T.A. Barron
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This is a dream come true. I have wanted to tour with Green Day since I was 15.
— Frank Iero
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A basic cause of murmuring is that too many of us seem to expect that life will flow ever smoothly, featuring an unbroken chain of…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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You know how everybody has that one weird creepy uncle? Well, Seth Green looks like he got raped by all of them.
— Anthony Jeselnik
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A Green Party candidate would be very different from a Democrat or Republican and should be heard.
— Peter Camejo
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The Green Party represents that majority point of view within the U.S.
— Peter Camejo
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The poet’s life is just so much crenellated waste, nights and days whipping swiftly or laboriously past the cinematic window. We’re hunched and weaving over…
— Eileen Myles
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More than that, I believe that the grass is green because green is restful to the human eye, that the sky is blue to give…
— Penelope Fitzgerald
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Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And…
— Samuel Daniel
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I will but confess the sins of my green cloak to my grey friar's frock, and all shall be well again.
— Walter Scott
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To get rid of swelling... I put green tea bags on my eyelids. Or I grab cold spoons that I leave in the freezer and…
— Shay Mitchell
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If we seek for the simplest arrangement, which would enable it [the eye] to receive and discriminate the impressions of the different parts of the…
— Thomas Young
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Former brownfields, depressed urban areas, and hard-hit rural towns blossom as eco-industrial parks, green enterprise zones, and eco-villages. Farmers' markets, community co-ops, and mobile markets…
— Van Jones
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In the fourth quadrant (lower right), working-class people are motivated to take on green-collar jobs and start green businesses.
— Van Jones
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Most green-collar jobs are middle-skill jobs. That means they require more education that a high-school diploma, but less than a four-year degree.
— Van Jones
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The main piece of technology in the green economy is a caulk gun.
— Van Jones
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The surest path to safe streets and peaceful communities is not more police and prisons, but ecologically sounds economic development. And that same path can…
— Van Jones
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Will the new environmental leaders fight for eco-equity in this new "green economy" they are birthing?
— Van Jones
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When they turned off, it was still early in the pink and green fields. The fumes of morning, sweet and bitter, sprang up where they…
— Eudora Welty
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It would be quite amusing to preach a bit to all those people who for many years now have been looking at our paintings and…
— Edvard Munch
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