Green Quotes
1927 Green quotes by 1331 unique authors
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I tried to express through red and green the terrible passions of humanity.
— Vincent Van Gogh
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We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten our…
— Unknown Author
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See the gold sunshine patching, And streaming and streaking across The gray-green oaks; and catching, By its soft brown beard, the moss.
— Philip James Bailey
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Spring was running in a thin green flame over the valley.
— Ellen Glasgow
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Twilight's soft dews steal o'er the village-green, With magic tints to harmonize the scene. Stilled is the hum that through the hamlet broke When round…
— Samuel Rogers
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Suffice it to say that black and white are also colors... for their simultaneous contrast is as striking as that of green and red, for…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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The scenery of mountains painted on the ever-changing azure canvas of the sky, the mysterious mechanism of the human body, the rose, the green grass…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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All green was anished sae of pine and yew, That still displayed their melancholy hue; Sae the green holly with its berries red, And the…
— George Crabbe
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For winter's rains and ruins are over... And in Green under wood and cover Blossum by blossom the spring begins.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
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In spring, nature is like a thrifty housewife ... taking up the white carpets and putting down the green ones.
— Mary Baker Eddy
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Green how I love you green. Green wind. Green boughs. The ship on the sea And the horse on the mountain.
— Federico Garcia Lorca
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When mountains and waters are painted, blue, green, and red paints are used, strange rocks and wondrous stones are used, the four jewels and the…
— Dogen
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If the fruit is green it will not fall to the ground even if you beat it with a sharp stick. When it is ripe…
— Sathya Sai Baba
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In the hierarchy of colors, green represents the social middle class, self-satisfied, immovable, narrow...
— Wassily Kandinsky
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O lovely lily clean, O lily springing green, O lily bursting white, Dear lily of delight, Spring in my heart agen That I may flower…
— John Masefield
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The owl and the pussycat went to sea, / In a beautiful pea green boat. / They took some honey, and plenty of money, /…
— Edward Lear
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Creativity is the life force that Dylan Thomas called 'the force that through the green fuse drives the flower.
— Julia Cameron
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The hard thing when you get old is to keep your horizons open. The first part of your life everything is in front of you,…
— Howard Thurman
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Praise the green earth. Chance has appointed her home, workshop, larder, middenpit. Her lousy skin scabbed here and there by cities provides us with name…
— Basil Bunting
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Heavens, how charming it is! There is now in the sky only the soft vaporous color of pale citron - the last reflection of the…
— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
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I'm an illegal alien and have been for many years. If you rub my skin, I go green.
— Claire Forlani
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I have been very careful to put forward new ideas - on tackling inequality, extending democratic reform and the green agenda, because I think these…
— Peter Hain
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Most eyes have more than one color, but usually they're related. Blue eyes may have two shades of blue, or blue and gray, or blue…
— Elizabeth Moon
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Suddenly a mist of green on the trees, as quiet as thought.
— Dorothy Richardson
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We calculate the amount spent [by Brethren and other anti- Green groups] was between $500,000 and $1 million - that's a huge amount for a…
— Bob Brown
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