Green Quotes
1927 Green quotes by 1331 unique authors
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When the peacock has presented his back, the spectator will usually begin to walk around him to get a front view; but the peacock will…
— Flannery O'Connor
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I knew when the ball was going out (over the Green Monster). It was something I worked into the decoy, but it used to tick…
— Carl Yastrzemski
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The great British blues guitarists of the Sixties - people like Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and Peter Green - could play like virtuosos,…
— Joe Perry
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At the sight of blackbirds Flying in a green light, Even the bawds of euphony Would cry out sharply.
— Wallace Stevens
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I'm going to buy some green bananas because by the time I get home they'll be ripe.
— Ryan Stiles
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When all is complete deep in the teapot, when tea, mint, and sugar have completely diffused throughout the water, coloring and saturating it...then a glass…
— Unknown Author
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I was the greenest rookie that ever was. One evening I was standing out on the sidewalk when a stranger approached and said, 'You're famous…
— Walter Johnson
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You are green, it is true; but they are green also. You are all green alike.
— Abraham Lincoln
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Capitalism can no more be 'persuaded' to limit growth than a human being can be 'persuaded' to stop breathing. Attempts to 'green' capitalism, to make…
— Murray Bookchin
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If the employees come first, then they're happy. A motivated employee treats the customer well. The customer is happy so they keep coming back, which…
— Herb Kelleher
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The truck was really fast, we just couldn't get a long enough green flag run there toward the end to get a good run on…
— Kevin Harvick
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You would not believe how loose this car is for two laps after the green. Then, just like that, it's back to how it was…
— Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
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The picture of me is nearly finished, and I think it is magnificent. Â The green and blue of the dress is splendid, and the…
— Ellen Terry
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Here's a simple way to abolish golf's elitist and exclusionary image and make it a truly all-American sport: ditch that fifties-Republican-martini-drinker's green Brooks Brothers-style sport…
— Bruce McCall
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Green clovers. Blue diamonds. Orange Stars. Pink hearts. Purple horseshoes. Man, I never know if I'm looking at a bowl of cereal or having another…
— David Henry
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Green is the fresh emblem of well founded hopes. In blue the spirit can wander, but in green it can rest.
— Mary Webb
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For, as when the red-cheeked, dancing girls, April and May, trip home to the wintry, misanthropic woods; even the barest, ruggedest, most thunder-cloven old oak…
— Herman Melville
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Also known as May Eve, May Day, and Walpurgis Night, happens at the beginning of May. It celebrates the height of Spring and the flowering…
— Selena Fox
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It was the month of May, the month when the foliage of herbs and trees is most freshly green, when buds ripened and blossoms appear…
— Thomas Malory
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What a time herbs and weeds, and such things could talk, A man in his garden one day did walk, Spying a nettle green (as…
— John Heywood
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