Green Quotes - Page 37

• ...today it is the duty of every thinking being to live, and to serve not only his own day and generation, but also generations unborn by helping to restore and maintain the green glory of the forests of the earth.

  Richard St. Barbe Baker

  Thinking, Generations, Earth

  Richard St. Barbe Baker (1948). “Green glory: the story of the forests of the world”

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• Thrice blessed are they whose early years are spent in some countryside. The flowering and withering of the seasons, and every exquisite sound and sight - every lane, and pasture, and green corners and gnarled hollows everywhere, make them affluent with a treasure which neither change nor chance can steal away.

  Lizette Woodworth Reese

  Blessed, Years, Sight

  Lizette Woodworth Reese (1929). “A Victorian Village: Reminiscences of Other Days”

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• Show me a healthy community with a healthy economy and I will show you a community that has its green infrastructure in order and understands the relationship between the built and the unbuilt environment.

  Will Rogers

  Nature, Smart, Order

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• The Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group strongly supports green-line policies, because the only way to attract top level employees and their families is to protect the region's open space and environment. We want to build a community that is demonstrates smart growth rather than a model for L.A.-type growth.

  Carl Guardino

  Nature, Smart, Space

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• Sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a grey one.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fashion, Men, Heaven

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc”, p.38

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• Recently while browsing in a secondhand bookstore I bought a paperback copy of The Intellectual and the City, but I was unable to read it. When I got home I discovered that the original owner had highlighted the entire book - literally. Every line on every page had been drawn through with a bright green Magic Marker. It was a terrifying example of a mind that had lost all power of discrimination.

  Florence King

  Book, Home, Cities

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.93, Macmillan

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• A warrior so bold, and a virgin so bright,
  Conversed as they sat on the green.
  They gazed on each other with tender delight,
  Alonzo the Brave was the name of the knight--
  The maiden's the Fair Imogene.

  Matthew Gregory Lewis

  Love, Warrior, Names

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• I walk where once the grass was green
  And mourn the lark that sings no more
  What bird could sing whose eyes have seen
  Broken blossoms on the field of war?

  Tom Springfield

  War, Eye, Broken

  "Song: 'Broken Blossoms'". 1967.

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• The rains tumble down in the sky,
  Young swallows have learned how to fly,
  The leaves that were green are no longer so green,
  And it looks like the summer is over.

  Tom Springfield

  Summer, Rain, Sky

  "Song: 'Summer Is Over'". 1964.

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• Man feels and ponders death as though it were the end, when in fact death is merely the continuation of life. It is another life. You may not believe in the existence of the soul, yet you must acknowledge that your body will live on as green grass, as a cloud. For you are, after all, water and dust.

  Janusz Korczak

  Believe, Men, Dust

  Janusz Korczak (2003). “Ghetto Diary”, p.22, Yale University Press

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• We believed the fairy tales we told our children and we loved them beyond reason even when we were green and bungling about it. We were children loving our children. And that's who we are still.

  Marlena De Blasi

  Children, Who We Are, Fairy Tale

  Marlena de Blasi (2008). “That Summer in Sicily: A Love Story”, p.34, Ballantine Books

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• I enjoy almost all of the game we kill. I only like to eat game that I have cleaned. I guess duck and dressing are still one of my favorites. We prefer fat green-winged teal or wood ducks for our dressing.

  Phil Robertson

  Ducks, Games, Woods

  Interview with Emily Whitten, world.wng.org. December 19, 2013.

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• It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Water, Growing, Safe

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• My mom makes something called green pie, which I thought was a delicacy that many people only had at Thanksgiving, but it turns out it was just Jell-O with whipped cream on it. And it's delicious.

  Bobby Moynihan

  Mom, Pie, People

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• Bill Ford, Jr., is somebody who wants to move this industry, to lead the nation in making us independent of foreign oil, of making the green vehicle.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Moving, Independent, Oil

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. March 31, 2009.

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• If you're a politician it's very useful to say that we can have economic growth and at the same time green the economy, but writers just have to face up to the fact that there are some fundamental tensions between the economic order and the biological order.

  Michael Pollan

  Order, Growth, Fundamentals

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The lush green of the fields became a rich gold that swayed sturdily under the wind and fell at last before the hands of the reapers.

  Martha Ostenso

  Autumn, Hands, Wind

  Martha Ostenso (1927). “The Mad Carews”, New York : Dodd, Mead

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• The rain was dashing in torrents against the window-panes, and the wind sweeping in heavy and fitful gusts along the dreary and deserted streets, as a party of three persons sat over their wine, in that stately old pile which once formed the resort of the Irish Members, in College Green, Dublin, and went by the name of Daly's Clubhouse.

  Charles Lever

  Party, Rain, Book

  Charles Lever (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Lever (Illustrated)”, p.767, Delphi Classics

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• Baseball is green and safe. It has neither the street intimidation of basketball nor the controlled Armageddon of football.... Baseball is a green dream that happens on summer nights in safe places in unsafe cities.

  Luke Salisbury

  Basketball, Summer, Dream

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• I saw thee in a vision of the night Transfigured; for it seemed that on thy brows The heavens did rest with all their stars, like boughs Laden with blossoms; round thy feet the bright Green waves, like grass, ran rippling, strewn with white Star-fragments of rent petals: wasted vows, And ruined prayers I thought them, such as house In hearts that love and are not loved aright.

  John Barlas

  Stars, Prayer, Heart

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• Training was a rite of purification; from it came speed, strength. Racing was a rite of death; from it came knowledge. Such rites demand, if they are to be meaningful at all, a certain amount of time spent precisely on the Red Line, where you can lean over the manicured putting green at the edge of the precipice and see exactly nothing.

  John L. Parker Jr.

  Meaningful, Racing, Training

  "Once a Runner: A Novel". Book by John L. Parker, Jr., www.huffingtonpost.com. 2009.

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• Regarding green screen, green screen is really like doing some stage work. You have to make believe that there is a window, make believe that something is there that is really not there and convince the audience. It's part of acting.

  Benicio Del Toro

  Believe, Acting, Window

  "Benicio del Toro Interview THE WOLFMAN". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 9, 2010.

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• A girl once came to my beery flat in Kensal Green, opened the blinds and cooked me breakfast. I married her.

  Peter Capaldi

  Girl, Breakfast, Married

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

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• The success of 'The Fighter' made it a lot easier to get 'Broken City' green-lit. And the buzz about 'The Fighter' also made it a lot easier to get 'Contraband' green-lit.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Cities, Broken, Buzz

  "The GQ&A: Mark Wahlberg". Interview with Dan Hyman, www.gq.com. January 11, 2012.

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• Don't be afraid to be yourself just because you're not like everybody else in class. If you want to dye your hair green and that's what makes you happy, then dye your hair green, no matter what other people might say about it. Not everybody is going to like you - that's the world we live in; that's reality.

  Rihanna

  Being Yourself, Reality, Hair

  "Rihanna Describes New 'Balance' In Her Life" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. July 01, 2010.

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