Green Quotes - Page 21

• Wag the world how it will, Leaves must be green in Spring.

  Herman Melville

  Spring, World, Wags

  Herman Melville (1866). “Battle-pieces and aspects of the war [poems].”, p.68

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• Remote though your farm may be, It's something to be the lord of one green lizard-and free.

  Juvenal

  May, Lizards, Lord

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• 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 with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Dog, Ordinary, Want

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• 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

  Sea, Needs, Voyages

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.217

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• Sex was invented as a biological instrument by (say) the green algae. But as an instrument in the ascent of man which is basic to his cultural evolution, it was invented by man himself.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Sex, Men, Algae

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• My first years were spent living just as my forefathers had lived - roaming the green, rolling hills of what are now the states of South Dakota and Nebraska.

  Standing Bear

  Years, Rolling, Nebraska

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• Dislodging a green nut from it's shell is almost impossible, but let it dry and the lightest tap will do it.

  Ramakrishna

  Nuts, Shells, Dry

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• Joy is everywhere; it is in the earth's green covering of grass: in the blue serenity of the sky: in the reckless exuberance of spring: in the severe abstinence of grey winter: in the living flesh that animates our bodily frame: in the perfect poise of the human figure, noble and upright: in living, in the exercise of all our powers: in the acquisition of knowledge. . . Joy is there everywhere.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Spring, Winter, Exercise

  Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life”, p.64, Rabindranath Tagore

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• The near end of the street was rather dark and had mostly vegetable shops. Abundance of vegetables - piles of white and green fennel, like celery, and great sheaves of young, purplish, sea-dust-coloured artichokes . . . long strings of dried figs, mountains of big oranges, scarlet large peppers, a large slice of pumpkin, a great mass of colours and vegetable freshness. . . .

  D. H. Lawrence

  Dark, Vegetables, Sea

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Sea and Sardinia”, p.22, Cambridge University Press

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• There is just no way that I can understand in God's green earth that an airline could undertake with its normal procedures the operation of the Space Shuttle. . . . You don't put parachutes on airliners because the margin of safety is built into the machine. The 727 airplanes we fly are proven vehicles with levels of safety and redundancy built in. The shuttle is a hand-made piece of experimental gear.

  Frank Borman

  Airplane, Moon, Space

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• We're weird roman candles burning bright at both ends. At the end of the road's where this story begins. Where the green of the gulf meets the blue of the sea. What makes it all happen is still a mystery to me. But those crazy days and those crazy ways, we never want to undo. We'll be together, now and forever.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Friendship, Crazy, Blue

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• The blues will be blue, and the jealousies green, but when love picks its color it demands to be seen.

  Garth Brooks

  Sadness, Blue, Color

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• To leave behind what was in reality a hell, and immediately have this good green earth revealed in more glory than most men ever see it, was one of the compensating privileges which make me feel that my suffering was worthwhile.

  Clifford Whittingham Beers

  Reality, Men, Suffering

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• Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off.

  Chris Patten

  Growth, World, Conservation

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• I don't want to brag, but I do more homework on the course than any other announcer. I chart the greens to get all the breaks. I walk down into the greenside bunkers. I walk into the fairway bunkers to see whether a player can reach the green from them.

  Johnny Miller

  Player, Want, Homework

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• I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.

  Bob Brown

  Long, Dies, Ifs

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Color, Los Angeles, Said

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• When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white.

  Sam Mendes

  Black And White, Want, Fields

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• Give me the clear blue sky above my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner - and then to thinking!

  Henry Hazlitt

  Thinking, Journey, Feet

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• At my age, I dont even buy green bananas.

  Claude Pepper

  Age, Bananas

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• Nature has many scenes to exhibit, and constantly draws a curtain over this part or that. She is constantly repainting the landscape and all surfaces, dressing up some scene for our entertainment. Lately we had a leafy wilderness; now bare twigs begin to prevail, and soon she will surprise us with a mantle of snow. Some green she thinks so good for our eyes that, like blue, she never banishes it entirely from our eyes, but has created evergreens.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Eye, Winter, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2799, Delphi Classics

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• I wish they taught green screen acting classes.

  Hayden Christensen

  Class, Wish, Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We need to send hundreds of millions of dollars down to our public high schools, vocational colleges, and community colleges to begin training people in the green-collar work of the future - things like solar-panel installation, retrofitting buildings that are leaking energy, wastewater reclamation, organic food, materials reuse and recycling.

  Van Jones

  Work, School, College

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• Let me drink from the waters where the mountain streams flood Let the smell of wildflowers flow free through my blood Let me sleep in your meadows with the green grassy leaves Let me walk down the highway with my brother in peace Let me die in my footsteps Before I go down under the ground.

  Bob Dylan

  Brother, Sleep, Journey

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• When people look for the road in the clouds
  The cloud road disappears
  The mountains are tall and steep
  The streams are wide and still
  Green mountains ahead and behind
  White clouds to east and west
  If you want to find the cloud road
  Seek it within

  Hanshan

  White, Clouds, People

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