Green Quotes - Page 39

• I read a lot of fantasy. I adored 'Anne of Green Gables'. But my favourite books as a child were probably Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' series, about a pioneer family in the mid-19th-century American west. I often thought of them as I was writing 'The Last Runaway'.

  Tracy Chevalier

  Children, Book, Writing

  "Tracy Chevalier: 'Slavery has to be raised until it's put to bed'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2013.

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• Even if you have the wit to look by yourself in a bush away from the other children, there are not many bell crickets in the world. Probably you will find a girl like a grasshopper whom you think is a bell cricket.And finally, to your clouded, wounded heart, even a true bell cricket will seem like a grasshopper. Should that day come, when it seems to you that the world is only full of grasshoppers, I will think it a pity that you have no way to remember tonight's play of light, when your name was written in green by your beautiful lantern on a girl's breast.

  Yasunari Kawabata

  Beautiful, Girl, Children

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• I'm not pessimistic about Africa. The cities just seem big and hopeless. But there's still a great green heart where there's possibility. There's hope in the wilderness.

  Paul Theroux

  Heart, Cities, Pessimistic

  "Author Paul Theroux on His Final African Journey". Interview with Veronica Gould Stoddart, www.usatoday.com. May 23, 2013.

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• I listen to all kinds of bands. I like rock music, like, male rock bands. I'm more into that instead of female singers. I like Nirvana, Green Day, System Of A Down. I also like punk rock, and I love bands like Coldplay.

  Avril Lavigne

  Rocks, Singers, Males

  "Avril Lavigne: Teen rocker of 2002". "The Music Room" with Sasha Rionda, www.cnn.com. December 27, 2002.

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• I'm not a great fan of green screen. It's not much fun for actors. It's great for directors and technical people and cameramen.

  Dominic West

  Fun, People, Directors

  "Dominic West on The Hour, John Carter, and Yes, The Wire". Interview with Will Harris, tv.avclub.com. November 26, 2012.

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• Fairies, black, grey, green, and white,
  You moonshine revellers, and shades of night,
  You orphan heirs of fixed destiny,
  Attend your office and your quality.

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Destiny, White

  William Shakespeare (1998). “The Merry Wives of Windsor”, p.211, Oxford University Press, USA

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• How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green!

  William Shakespeare

  Looks, Grass, Gonzalo From Tempest

  William Shakespeare (1858). “Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems”

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• Sometimes the road was only a lane, with thick hawthorne hedges, and the green elms overhung it on either side so that when you looked up there was only a strip of blue sky between. And as you rode along in the warm, keen air you had a sensation that the world was standing still and life would last forever. Although you were pedaling with such energy you had a delicious feeling of laziness.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Air, Blue, Sky

  W. Somerset Maugham (1930). “Cakes and Ale”

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• Countless candles dribbled with hot wax, and their flames, like little flags, fluttered in the unchartered currents of air. Thousands of lamps, naked, or shuttered behind coloured glass, burned with their glows of purple, amber, grass-green, blue, blood red and even grey. The walls of Gormenghast were like the walls of paradise or like the walls of an inferno. The colours were devilish or angelical according to the colour of the mind that watched them. They swam, those walls, with the hues of hell, with the tints of Zion. The breasts of the plumaged seraphim; the scales of Satan.

  Mervyn Peake

  Wall, Purple, Glasses

  Mervyn Peake (2007). “Gormenghast”, p.226, The Overlook Press

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• The recommendation by the Arkansas Supreme Court Disciplinary Committee that President Clinton be disbarred is like a tender green shoot of integrity rising from the stinking junkyard of American public life. At last, some official body has come to a decision about Clinton's conduct that is untainted by politics, cowardice or cynicism.

  Mona Charen

  Integrity, Decision, President

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• I was wondering about my eyes; one of my eyes--the left--saw everything golden and yellow and orange, and the other eye saw shades of blue and grey and green; perhaps one eye was for daylight and the other was for night. If everyone in the world saw different colors from different eyes there might be a great many new colors still to be invented.

  Shirley Jackson

  Eye, Night, Yellow

  Shirley Jackson (2010). “Novels and Stories: The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Other Stories and Sketches”

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• Yes, the Green Party is committed to a healthy environment. But the Green Party is not solely committed to just that.

  Cynthia McKinney

  Party, Healthy, Environment

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• There's been a long-standing relationship between me and individual members of the Green Party.

  Cynthia McKinney

  Party, Long, Individual

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• We were broke in a way that only kids can be broke. Our toes were black with dye from wearing boots that weren't waterproof. We had infected ear lobes and green rings around our fingers from cheap jewelry. No one ever even had a chocolate bar.

  Heather O'Neill

  Kids, Chocolate, Black

  Heather O'Neill (2009). “Lullabies for Little Criminals: A Novel”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• I felt New York was a big, more stylish, more metropolitan Golders Green. I was thrilled.

  Simon Schama

  New York, Bigs, Metropolitan

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• The attempts to command the climate and decide about the temperature on our planet are wrong and arrogant. I wrote a book about it which was published in English under the title “Blue Planet in Green Shackles.”

  Vaclav Klaus

  Book, Blue, Temperature

  "DECKER: 5 Questions with President Vaclav Klaus". Interview with Brett M. Decker, www.washingtontimes.com. September 25, 2012.

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• When I was 14, I almost had a big green leprechaun tattooed on my forearm. Thank God I didn't - it would have been a nightmare to cover up as an actor. I went with a group of mates and, being Irish, thought a leprechaun would be perfect.

  Jonas Armstrong

  Perfect, Thank God, Groups

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

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• I'm a big fan of the Adidas three-stripe old-school zip-up tracksuit tops. I've got several for everyday wear, including an olive-green one, a burgundy one and a cream one with leather arms.

  Jonas Armstrong

  School, Stripes, Everyday

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

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• I love to create this green juice shake made from kale, spinach, cucumber and wheatgrass. The nutrients in the juice help me recover after a tough workout. The Kale Banana Smoothie at LYFE Kitchen is very similar to my recipe and is fantastic.

  Troy Polamalu

  Workout, Kale, Kitchen

  "Training Tips for the No-Offseason Athlete". Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 16, 2012.

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• Landscape is my religion. ...God in a green legend, I lean over the pool In a testament of leaves. I dangle my twinkling mood Before me in a cool cave roofed with branches And floored with a skin of water.

  Norman MacCaig

  Water, Skins, Caves

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• Let us green the earth, restore the earth, heal the earth.

  Ian McHarg

  Earth, Heal

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• Winning the green jacket is great - I can pay for all the diapers I'm going to have to get.

  Bubba Watson

  Winning, Diapers, Pay

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• It's a dream come true for Bubba Watson from Bagdad, Florida to have the green jacket on.

  Bubba Watson

  Dream, Florida, Jackets

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• We all need the living green or we'll shrivel up inside. To make the modern city livable is the task of our times.

  Jens Jensen

  Cities, Tasks, Needs

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• Godzilla. The big, green G-man has had a profound influence on my creative endeavors and imagination since I was blueberry-avoiding kid.

  Jeremy Robinson

  Kids, Men, Profound

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