Green Quotes - Page 8

• He could not die when the trees were green, For he loved the time too well.

  John Clare

  Time, Tree, Wells

  'The Dying Child'

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• I found a strawberry blossom in a rock. The little slender flower had more courage than the green leaves, for they were but half expanded and half grown, but the blossom was spread full out. I uprooted it rashly, and I felt as if I had been committing an outrage, so I planted it again. It will have but a stormy life of it, but let it live if it can.

  Dorothy Wordsworth

  Flower, Rocks, Half

  Dorothy Wordsworth, Pamela Woof (2008). “The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals”, p.61, Oxford University Press

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• I would stand transfixed before the windows of the confectioners' shops, fascinated by the luminous sparkle of candied fruits, the cloudy lustre of jellies, the kaleidoscope inflorescence of acidulated fruit drops - red, green, orange, violet: I coveted the colours themselves as much as the pleasure they promised me.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Food, Orange, Cooking

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• She took off her dark glasses and squinted at me. It was as though her eyes were shattered prisms, the dots of blue and gray and green like broken bits of sparkle.

  Truman Capote

  Eye, Dark, Glasses

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.71, Vintage

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• I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree.

  Sylvia Plath

  Beautiful, Sleep, Tree

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.30, Hamilton Books

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• In my own life, as winters turn into spring, I find it not only hard to cope with mud but also hard to credit the small harbingers of larger life to come, hard to hope until the outcome is secure. Spring teaches me to look more carefully for the green stems of possibility; for the intuitive hunch that may turn into a larger insight, for the glance or touch that may thaw a frozen relationship, for the stranger's act of kindness that makes the world seem hospitable again.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Kindness, Spring, Winter

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• Her green eyes came unafraid to his. The connection was so intense that it threatened to drain his sense of self. He felt that he had always known her, that she had always been a part of him, that her needs were his needs.

  Terry Goodkind

  Eye, Self, Connections

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Wizard's First Rule”, p.12, Head of Zeus

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• May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters.

  Ben Hogan

  Lying, Golf, Water

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• Death is a great price to pay for a red rose“, cried the Nightingale, "and Life is very dear to all. “ It is pleasant to sit in the green wood, and watch the Sun in his chariot of gold, and the Moon in her chariot of pearl. Sweet is the scent oft he hawthorn, and sweet are the bluebells that hide in the valley, and the heather that blows on the hill. Yet Love is better than Life, and what is the heart of a bird compared to the heart of a man?

  Oscar Wilde

  Sweet, Heart, Blow

  Oscar Wilde (2008). “Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde”, p.24, Penguin

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• Grass is the forgiveness of nature-her constant benediction. Fields trampled with battle, saturated with blood, torn with the ruts of cannon, grow green again with grass and carnage is forgotten. Streets abandoned by traffic become grass-grown, like rural lanes and are obliterated. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal.

  John James Ingalls

  Flower, Blood, Battle

  John James Ingalls (1907). “Selections from the Writings of John J. Ingalls”

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• 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 might. 4. At red lights. 5. At green lights. 6. At all other times.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Block, Light, World

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.209, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Piper bit her lip. The last thing she wanted to do was check Katopris for more terrifying images. 'I've tried,'she said.'The dagger doesn't always show what I want to see. In fact,it hardly ever does' 'Please,'Percy said.'Try again.' He pleaded with those sea-green eyes, like a cute baby seal that needed help.Piper wondered how Annabeth ever won an argument with this guy. 'Fine,'she sighed,and drew her dagger

  Rick Riordan

  Cute, Baby, Eye

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• Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus." - John Richard Green, A Short History of the English People, 1874. see Charles Macklin.

  John Arbuthnot

  People, Historical, Nicknames

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• Don't put blankets over the drum! Open completely. Let your spirit ear listen to the green dome's passionate murmur.

  Rumi

  Passionate, Ears, Domes

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• I've actually usually been wary of taking on science fiction as an actor because it's really tough to do. It's really difficult to execute. There's often lots of prosthetics, green screen and special effects, and it can get very technical.

  Grant Bowler

  Special, Fiction, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I knew when the ball was going out (over the Green Monster). It was something I worked into the decoy, but it used to tick the pitchers off. Bill Monbouquette used to say, 'Can't you at least make it look like you can catch it?' Meanwhile, the ball would be on its way over the fence to a spot three-quarters of the way out to the railroad tracks.

  Carl Yastrzemski

  Track, Monsters, Would Be

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• I eat green ants often enough. They are wonderful. The trick is to squash them before you eat them, otherwise they bite your tongue and it ruins the experience.

  Tim Winton

  Squash, Tongue, Ruins

  Source: www.compulsivereader.com

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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

  Years, Skins, Aliens

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• The truck was really fast, we just couldn't get a long enough green flag run there toward the end to get a good run on Todd and Skinner. But we were fast. Randy Goss, David Dollar and everyone on the No. 47 team and at Morgan Dollar gave me an awesome truck to drive tonight. We ran out of time to get back up there and race them for win.

  Kevin Harvick

  Running, Team, Winning

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• Shy gold begins to peep through the sombre green - the wattle's wedding dress - and Spring is near. Then suddenly it seems, one golden morning, the Bush awakes, a living thing. Flowers bloom, birds sing, and all the world puts on its gayest dress to greet the laughing Spring.

  C. J. Dennis

  Nature, Morning, Laughter

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• That little green drink inspired hallucination is right!

  Rocko

  Littles, Hallucinations, Inspired

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• Yet what each one does is by no means of little moment. The grass has to put forth all its energy to draw sustenance from the uttermost tips of its rootlets simply to grow where it is as grass; it does not vainly strive to become a banyan tree; and so the earth gains a lovely carpet of green.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Life, Mean

  Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.62, Sahitya Akademi

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• O my heart! Love God as the chatrik loves the rain drops, Who even when fountains are full and the land green, Is not satisfied as long as it cannot get a drop of rain.

  Guru Nanak

  Rain, Heart, Past

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• We can better see what we don't have. The other man's grass is always greener and now we can actually go and visit his grass much more and feel the absence of green in our own lives.

  Pico Iyer

  Men, Absence, Grass

  Source: scottlondon.com

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