Green Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• I married him for a green card. We had a really great, caring relationship; it just obviously wasn't right for me.

  Portia de Rossi

  Relationship, Caring, Cards

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

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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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• To change our laws and culture, the green movement must attract and include the majority of all people, not just the majority of affluent people.

  Van Jones

  Law, People, Majority

  Van Jones (2008). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, HarperOne

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• The ant's a centaur in his dragon world. Pull down thy vanity, it is not man Made courage, or made order, or made grace, Pull down thy vanity, I say pull down. Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry, Pull down thy vanity, Paquin pull down! The green casque has outdone your elegance.

  Ezra Pound

  Courage, Learning, Men

  Cantos no. 81, l. 148 (1948)

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• There is nothing on God's green earth that someone won't complain about including both God and green earth.

  Vicki Myron

  Complaining, Earth, Including

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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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• All a green willow, willow, All a green willow is my garland.

  John Heywood

  Tree, Garlands, Green Trees

  'The Green Willow'.

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• O never harm the dreaming world, the world of green, the world of leaves, but let its million palms unfold the adoration of the trees It is a love in darkness wrought obedient to the unseen sun, longer than memory, a thought deeper than the graves of time. The turning spindles of the cells weave a slow forest over space, the dance of love, creation, out of time moves not a leaf, and out of summer, not a shade.

  Kathleen Raine

  Summer, Dream, Memories

  Kathleen Raine (1989). “Selected Poems”, p.19, SteinerBooks

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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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• No white nor red was ever seen So am'rous as this lovely green. Fond lovers, cruel as their flame, Cut in these trees their mistress' name. Little, alas, they know or heed How far these beauties hers exceed! Fair trees! where s'e'er your barks I wound, No name shall but your own be found.

  Andrew Marvell

  Cutting, White, Flames

  Andrew Marvell (1997). “"To His Coy Mistress" and Other Poems”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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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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• Martina's like the old Green Bay Packers. You know exactly what she's going to do, but there isn't a thing you can do about it.

  Arthur Ashe

  Tennis, Packers, Knows

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• When business is not all that it should be there is a temptation to sit back and say, Well, what's the use! We've done everything possible to stir up a little business and there is nothing doing so what's the use of trying! There is always a way. There was a way in and there is a way out. And success comes to the man who grits his teeth, squares his jaw, and says, There is a way for me and, by jingo, I'll find it. The stagnator gathers green scum, finally dries up and leaves an unsightly hollow.

  Cliff Sloan

  Perseverance, Men, Squares

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• Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Yellow, Melancholy

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 4, l. [108]

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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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• The Water Babies "Young and Old" When all the world is young, lad, And all the trees are green; And every goose a swan, lad, And every lass a queen; Then hey for boot and horse, lad, And round the world away: Young blood must have its course, lad, And every dog his day.

  Charles Kingsley

  Dog, Baby, Horse

  The Water Babies "Young and Old" l. 1 (1863)

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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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