Green Quotes - Page 10

• That little green drink inspired hallucination is right!

  Rocko

  Littles, Hallucinations, Inspired

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• Saying Good-bye to the God of Disease (1) Mauve waters and green mountains are nothing when the great ancient doctor Hua To could not defeat a tiny worm. A thousand villages collapsed, were choked with weeds, men were lost arrows. Ghosts sang in the doorway of a few desolate houses. Yet now in a day we leap around the earth or explore a thousand Milky Ways. And if the cowherd who lives on a star asks about the god of plagues, tell him, happy or sad, the god is gone, washed away in the waters. July 1, 1958

  Mao Zedong

  Life, Weed, Stars

  Zedong Mao (2008). “The Poems of Mao Zedong”, p.89, Univ of California Press

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• Of all created things the source is one, Simple, single as love; remember The cell and seed of life, the sphere That is, of child, white bird, and small blue dragon-fly Green fern, and the gold four-petalled tormentilla The ultimate memory. Each latent cell puts out a future, Unfolds its differing complexity As a tree puts forth leaves, and spins a fate Fern-traced, bird feathered, or fish-scaled.

  Kathleen Raine

  Life, Memories, Children

  Kathleen Raine (1989). “Selected Poems”, p.55, SteinerBooks

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• Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the ivy green.

  Charles Dickens

  Life, Cells, Ivy

  Charles Dickens (1905). “The Pickwick Papers”, p.70

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• A wise word is more rare than the green emerald, and one can find the word of wisdom even amongst the slave girls making grain.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Girl, Wise, Wisdom

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• This Bouillabaisse a noble dish is - A sort of soup or broth, or brew, Or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes, That Greenwich never could outdo; Green herbs, red peppers, mussels, saffron, Soles, onions, garlic, roach, and dace; All these you eat at Terre's tavern, In that one dish of Bouillabaisse.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Cooking, Roaches, Taverns

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1870). “Catherine. Titmarsch among pictures and books. Fraser miscellanies. Christmas books. Ballads”, p.557

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• Soups challenge us, because an enticing flavorful stew can be as different from the thin watery beverage sometimes erroneously called soup as a genuine green turtle is from the mock turtle.

  Louis Pullig De Gouy

  Food, Turtles, Challenges

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• There are always some of us, not a few, in every generation, who go over wholly to the green flag. It is such a passionless fealty, so reticent a love, that neither do trumpets sound for it nor quarrels arise from it. Only, you will find that those who have pledged allegiance are happy about it in quiet.

  Donald C. Peattie

  Love, Desire, Sound

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• Green grass grows where dry desert ends.

  Og Mandino

  Desert, Dry, Grass

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• For the first time, you can actually see the losers turn green

  Bob Hope

  Oscars, Firsts, Loser

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• Americans are incredibly inpatient. Someone once said that the shortest period of time in America is the time between when the light turns green and when you hear the first horn honk.

  Jim Rohn

  Funny, Time, Light

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 06, 2013

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• It is the sweetest spring within the memory of man. So green, so mild, so beautiful! Ah, what a contrast between nature without and my own soul so torn with doubt and terror!

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Beautiful, Memories, Spring

  Derrick Belanger, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “A Study in Terror: Volume 1: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Revolutionary Stories of Fear and the Supernatural”, p.203, Andrews UK Limited

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• And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, Shall long keep his memory green in our souls.

  Charles Lamb

  Memories, Long, Soul

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• Close to the Gates a spacious Garden lies, From the Storms defended and inclement Skies; Four Acres was the allotted Space of Ground, Fenc'd with a green Enclosure all around. Tall thriving Trees confessed the fruitful Mold: The reddening Apple ripens here to Gold, Here the blue Fig with luscious Juice overflows, With deeper Red the full Pomegranate glows, The Branch here bends beneath the weighty Pear, And verdant Olives flourish round the Year.

  Homer

  Lying, Garden, Blue

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• So excuse me forgetting, but these things I do
  You see I've forgotten, if they're green or they're blue
  Anyway, the thing is, what I really mean
  Yours are the sweetest eyes, I've ever seen.

  Elton John

  Song, Mean, Eye

  Song: Your Song, Album: Rocket Man

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• It swam crossways in the direction of the Nautilus with great speed, watching us with its enormous staring green eyes. Its eight arms, or rather feet, fixed to its head, that have given the name of cephalopod to these animals, were twice as long as its body, and were twisted like the furies' hair.

  Jules Verne

  Eye, Animal, Eight

  Jules Verne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jules Verne (Illustrated)”, p.1685, Delphi Classics

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• Then here 's to the oak, the brave old oak, Who stands in his pride alone! And still flourish he a hale green tree When a hundred years are gone!

  Henry Chorley

  Pride, Years, Tree

  Henry Fothergill Chorley, “The Brave Old Oak”

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• Handle even a single leaf of green in such a way that it manifests the body of the Buddha. This in turn allows the Buddha to manifest through the leaf.

  Dogen

  Tree, Body, Way

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• Annihilating all that's made, To a green thought in a green shade.

  Andrew Marvell

  Tree, Shade, Made

  "The Garden" l. 47 (1681)

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• Enormous and solid but swaying, beaten by the wind but chained, murmur of a million leaves against my window. Riot of trees, surge of dark green sounds. The grove, suddenly still, is a web of fronds and branches.

  Octavio Paz

  Dark, Wind, Tree

  Octavio Paz (1979). “A Draft of Shadows, and Other Poems”, p.51, New Directions Publishing

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• All green and fair the summer lies, Just budded from the bud of spring, With tender blue of wistful skies, And winds that softly sing.

  Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

  Summer, Spring, Lying

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• Gray are all the theories, But green is the tree of life.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Tree, Theory, Gray

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• Curiously, light-loving green plants reject the Sun's green light, reflecting it back at you, which is why they look green.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Green Plants, Light, Mind Blowing

  Twitter post from Mar 17, 2012

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• There are nettles everywhere, but smooth, green grasses are more common still; the blue of heaven is larger than the cloud.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Clouds, Blue, Heaven

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.439

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• When I started driving our old four-door green DeSoto, I always took Skip on my trips around town. I would get Skip to prop himself against the steering wheel, his black head peering out of the windshield, while I crouched out of sight under the dashboard. Slowing the car to ten or fifteen, I would guide the steering wheel with my right hand while Skip, with his paws, kept it steady. As we drove by the Blue Front Café, I could hear one of the men shout: "Look at that ol' dog drivin' a car!"

  Willie Morris

  Funny, Dog, Men

  Willie Morris (2008). “My Dog Skip”, p.11, Vintage

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