Green Quotes
1927 Green quotes by 1331 unique authors
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And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink
— Vikram Seth
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The vast majority of local people will neither know all of the initiatives nor have any perception that the individual elements are beginning to contribute…
— Paul Burrell
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As a picture painted in yellow always radiates spiritual warmth, or as one in blue has apparently a cooling effect, so green is only boring.
— Wassily Kandinsky
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Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back…
— John le Carre
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An endless number of green buildings doesn't make a sustainable city.
— Jan Gehl
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There were horrendous, dramatic, violent quantities of green slime—oodles of it. It covered Howl completely. It draped his head and shoulders in sticky dollops, heaping…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. As the landscape changed from…
— Stephen Crane
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In all the green world nothing feels as good as a woman's good nature.
— John Updike
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The way two people can end up in the same place, find each other in a crowd, and change their lives and the lives of…
— Deb Caletti
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To achieve a Green Revolution, African farmers, must have access to land and security of tenure. They also need access to markets, technology and improved…
— Ban Ki-moon
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The women of the Green Belt Movement have learned about the causes and the symptoms of environmental degradation. They have begun to appreciate that they,…
— Wangari Maathai
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My eyes are green, my hair is silver and I freckly; the rest is subject to change without notice.
— Anne McCaffrey
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I struggle with enormous discrepancies: between the reality of motherhood and the image of it, between my love for my home and the need to…
— Sally Mann
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The green economy should not just be about reclaiming throw-away stuff. It should be about reclaiming thrown-away communities. It should not just be about recycling…
— Van Jones
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The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is…
— Charles Macklin
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People don't remember you for all of the good things you do. They remember the time you blew a giant green snot bubble out your…
— Donna Barr
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Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable? One…
— George Gissing
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Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As mans ingratitude Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although…
— William Shakespeare
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Women will not simply be mainstreamed into the polluted stream. Women are changing the stream, making it clean and green and safe for all -…
— Bella Abzug
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It seemed like this was one big Prozac nation, one big mess of malaise. Perhaps the next time half a million people gather for a…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Consider the many special delights a lawn affords: soft mattress for a creeping baby; worm hatchery for a robin; croquet or badminton court; baseball diamond;…
— Katharine Sergeant Angell White
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The relationship between truth and a newspaper is like the relationship between the color green and the number seven. Occasionally you will see the number…
— Garrison Keillor
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Mr. Vice President, the most fiscally conservative thing this government has ever done, is to invest massively in the green part of the recovery. Because…
— Van Jones
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Any successful long-term strategy will require that the green wave fully and passionately embrace the principles of eco-equity.
— Van Jones
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Now we stand at our own crossroads, looking out upon two futures: one with rising temperatures, rising oceans, and rising violence on a hot and…
— Van Jones
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