Green Quotes

1927 Green quotes by 1331 unique authors

Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns Into a royal court with green festoons The banks of dark lagoons. — Henry Timrod
At my age, I dont even buy green bananas. — Claude Pepper
There is also an insulting speech about 'one grey day just like another'. You might as well talk about one green tree like another. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it, We are happy now because God so wills it; No matter how barren the… — James Russell Lowell
Do you hear the snow against the windowpanes, Kitty? How nice and soft it sounds! Just as if some one was kissing the window all… — Lewis Carroll
I am at the moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the nose, green in the gills, damp in the eyes,… — Charles Dickens
A few amber clouds floated in the sky without a breath of air to move them. The horizon was of a fine golden tint, changing… — Washington Irving
Whose heart doth hold the Christmas glow Hath little need of Mistletoe; Who bears a smiling grace of mien Need waste no time on wreaths… — John Kendrick Bangs
All theory, my friend, is grey, But green is life's glad golden tree. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Those running tights the young women wear now, so they look like spacewomen, raspberry red and electric green so tight they show every muscle right… — John Updike
If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to… — William Faulkner
No man may be so cursed by priest or pope but what the Eternal Love may still return while any thread of green lives on… — Dante Alighieri
Along the iron veins that traverse the frame of our country, beat and flow the fiery pulses of its exertion, hotter and faster every hour.… — John Ruskin
I'm famous for splurging at fast-food places. I'm currently obsessed with Taco Bell's bean and cheese burritos with extra green sauce and extra cheese. Gluttony! — Fergie
Now, among the heresies that are spoken in this matter is the habit of calling a grey day a "colourless" day. Grey is a colour,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy… — Horace
Our destiny often looks like a fruit-tree in winter. Who would think from its pitiable aspect that those rigid boughs, those rough twigs could next… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Forgive me if, in friendship’s way, I offer thee a wreath of May.... [N]ourished by the dews of heaven.... So I have Ivy placed between,… — John Clare
In the Third World, honk your horn only under the following circumstances: 1. When anything blocks the road. 2. When anything doesn't. 3. When anything… — P.J. O'Rourke
Wag the world how it will, Leaves must be green in Spring. — Herman Melville
Remote though your farm may be, It's something to be the lord of one green lizard-and free. — Juvenal
No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like Blake's illustration for… — Allen Ginsberg
In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be thrown at them… — Alfred Hitchcock
Many a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of Misery, Or the mariner, worn and wan, Never thus could voyage on. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
When the melancholy fit shall fall Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud, That fosters the droop-headed flowers all, And hides the green hill in… — John Keats

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