Green Quotes - Page 22

• 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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• When the melancholy fit shall fall Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud, That fosters the droop-headed flowers all, And hides the green hill in an April shroud; Then glut thy sorrow on a morning rose.

  John Keats

  Morning, Flower, Fall

  'Ode on Melancholy' (1820) st. 2

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• I'm a strong proponent of green tech for anyone who can afford it, having spent the last 40 years working toward achieving a smaller and smaller eco-impact for myself.

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  Strong, Impact, Years

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

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• Doug Ford was one of the first of the old pros I saw during my first full year on tour, in 1963. To this day he's the best chipper I've ever seen. One thing Doug did was get the ball onto the green and rolling right away, keeping it as low as possible. He never hit his chips higher than was absolutely necessary.

  Ray Floyd

  Years, Rolling, Balls

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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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• Turning to the colour-classification methodology: The starting point are the four pure colours red, yellow, green and blue; their in-between shades and scales of brightness result in colour schemes containing 16, 64, 256 and 1,024 shades. More colours would be pointless because it wouldn't be possible to distinguish between them clearly.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Blue, Yellow

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• Each American embassy comes with two permanent features - a giant anti-American demonstration and a giant line for American visas. Most demonstrators spend half their time burning Old Glory and the other half waiting for green cards.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Humorous, Old Glory

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.18, Atlantic Books Ltd

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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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• There are three reasons, . . . apart from scientific considerations, mankind needs to travel in space. The first . . . is garbage disposal; we need to transfer industrial processes into space so that the earth may remain a green and pleasant place for our grandchildren to live in. The second . . . to escape material impoverishment: the resources of this planet are finite, and we shall not forego forever the abundance of solar energy and minerals and living space that are spread out all around us. The third . . . our spiritual need for an open frontier.

  Freeman Dyson

  Spiritual, Moon, Grandchildren

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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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• There is no term comparable to green thumbs to apply to such a mechanic, but there should be. For there are men who can look, listen, tap, make an adjustment, and a machine works.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Looks, Machines

  John Steinbeck (1993). “Cannery Row”, p.35, Penguin

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• Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,- Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies: They fall successive, and successive rise.

  Homer

  Spring, Fall, Men

  Homer (1822). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.170

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• There is a green hill far away, Without a city wall, Where the dear Lord was crucified, Who died to save us all.

  Cecil Frances Alexander

  Jesus, Wall, Cities

  1848 'There is a Green Hill Far Away'

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• Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.

  Fannie Flagg

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.458, Random House

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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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• You don't have to live in the country and grow your own food to be green.

  Shalom Harlow

  Country, Grows

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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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• When How Green Was My Valley finally wrapped, I thought John Ford was a walking god.

  Maureen O'Hara

  Valleys, Walking

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