Green Quotes
1927 Green quotes by 1331 unique authors
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O, mighty, divinely delimited wisdom of walls, boundaries! I is perhaps the most magnificent of all inventions. Man ceased to be a wild animal only…
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
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Being alive is gardening and cooking and birds and green and blue, at the very least.
— Charles Bowden
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The dawn came - not the flaming sky that promises storm, but a golden dawn of infinite promise. The birds came flying up out of…
— Elizabeth Goudge
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During climbs into taller trees, I was occasionally able to look down on the backs of birds, which shine with reflected sunlight as they move…
— Richard Preston
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Mr. Jamrach led me through the lobby and into the menagerie. The first was a parrot room, a fearsome screaming place of mad round eyes,…
— Carol Birch
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As I see it, a green salad is an open invitation to carrots, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, and the sprouts that grow in jars on my…
— Victoria Moran
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I myself am quite absorbed by the delicate yellow, delicate soft green, delicate violet of a ploughed and weeded piece of soil.
— Vincent Van Gogh
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The fallen hazel-nuts, Stripped late of their green sheaths, The grapes, red-purple, Their berries Dripping with wine, Pomegranates already broken, And shrunken fig, And quinces…
— Hilda Doolittle
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'Ever seen a leaf - a leaf from a tree?' 'Yes.' I saw one recently - a yellow one, a little green, wilted at the…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I think people get scared that they're not going to be able to do it perfectly, they're going to be criticized, they're going to be…
— Cameron Diaz
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My general rule, which I have followed throughout my coaching career, is that everyone doesn't necessarily get treated the same way, because I'm not sure…
— Karch Kiraly
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We stand united, facing the big responsibility to change our country into a nation of justice, solidarity, humanity and green development.
— George Papandreou
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I think that I've been pigeon-holed by virtue of the fact that I've spent so much time in front of a green screen.
— Jonathan Frakes
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Defensive backs are the best players on the field. But when you get an exceptional player like a Deion Sanders or a Darrell Green -…
— Jerry Rice
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I grew up in a racially mixed neighborhood. So going over to friends' houses for dinner, their parents listened to Al Green and Luther Ingram.…
— Justin Townes Earle
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I got brown sandwiches and green sandwiches. Its either very new cheese or very old meat. - Oscar Madison, from The Odd Couple
— Neil Simon
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Absolute green is the most restful color, lacking any undertone of joy, grief, or passion. On exhausted men this restfulness has a beneficial effect, but…
— Wassily Kandinsky
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I don't think much about my physical body going off into the long, green fairways of heaven to play golf.
— John Shelby Spong
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Green and black go well together, dont they?
— Tiger Woods
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A sea-green sky: lamps blossoming white. This is marginal land: fields of strung wire, of treadless tyres in ditches, fridges dead on their backs, and…
— Hilary Mantel
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They fought their first action in March of 1775. Embarked on eight small ships, they sailed to the Bahamas and captured a British fort near…
— Tom Clancy
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It was clear: I was sick. I never used to dream. They say in the old days it was the most normal thing in the…
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
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Is the Moon made out of green cheese? No, it's American cheese.
— William Anders
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Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.
— Cyril Connolly
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America's new tea lovers are the people who have forced the tea trade to wake up. Elsewhere, tea has meant a certain way, a certain…
— James Norwood Pratt
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