Green Quotes - Page 7

• What's green, hangs on a wall and whistles? [A Herring]

  Leo Rosten

  Wall

  "The Joys of Yiddish". Book by Leo Rosten, 1968.

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• Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the people, must redeem The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers. The mountains and the endless plain-- All, all the stretch of these great green states-- And make America again!

  Langston Hughes

  Lying, Land, Rivers

  Langston Hughes (2004). “Vintage Hughes”, Vintage

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• I know when to go and when to stop. I'm the red, the yellow, and the green light. That's me in a nutshell.

  Aeriel Miranda

  Light, Yellow, Red

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• I try to leave a light footprint. I'm involved with Global Green, which aims to educate people about sustainable building and the greening of schools. I try to be aware about the consumption of unnecessary things in a consumptive culture.

  Walton Goggins

  School, Light, People

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• I am at the moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the nose, green in the gills, damp in the eyes, twitchy in the joints and fractious in temper from a most intolerable and oppressive cold.

  Charles Dickens

  Health, Eye, Noses

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.14344, Delphi Classics

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• I went through a real punk stage-I had braids, red hair, pink hair, green hair, I cut it into a Mohawk, the lot. Then about five years ago, I dyed it dark and stayed out of the sun to get pale, because I hated looking like everyone else, all blonde hair and tanned skin.

  Katie McGrath

  Real, Dark, Cutting

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• Denmark and the UK are in agreement that our future prosperity depends on stimulating green growth, and getting off the oil hook.

  Chris Huhne

  Agreement, Oil, Growth

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• My eyes are green, my hair is silver and I freckly; the rest is subject to change without notice.

  Anne McCaffrey

  Eye, Hair, Silver

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• It was a heavenly summer, the summer in which France fell and the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk. Leaves were never such an intense and iridescent green; sunlight glinted on flower-studded meadows as the Germans encircled the Maginot Line and overran not only France but Belgium and Holland. Birdsong filled the air in the lull between bursts of gunfire and accompanied the fleeing refugees who blocked the roads. It was as though the weather was preparing a glorious requiem for the death of Europe.

  Eva Ibbotson

  Summer, Flower, Air

  "A Song for Summer".

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• The time is perhaps not altogether too green for the vile suggestion that art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear, and more than the light of day (or night) makes the subsolar, -lunar, and -stellar excrement. Art is the sun, moon, and stars of the mind, the whole mind.

  Samuel Beckett

  Art, Stars, Moon

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• I invented the colors of the vowels!--A black, E white, I red, O blue, U green--I made rules for the form and movement of each consonant, and, and with instinctive rhythms, I flattered myself that I had created a poetic language accessible, some day, to all the senses.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Blue, Color, White

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• What is green? The grass is green,
  With small flowers between.
  What is violet? Clouds are violet
  In the summer twilight.
  What is orange? Why, an orange,
  Just an orange!

  Christina Rossetti

  Summer, Flower, Twilight

  Christina Rossetti (2008). “Poems and Prose”, p.202, OUP Oxford

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• And if she asks you why you can tell her that I told you
  That I'm tired of Castles in the Air
  I've got a dream I want the world to share in castle walls
  Just leave me to despair
  Hills of forest green where the mountains touch the sky
  A dream come true, I'll live there 'til I die
  I'm asking you, to say my last good-bye
  The love we knew, ain't worth another try

  Don McLean

  Dream, Song, Wall

  Song: Castles in The Air

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• Oh there is blessing in this gentle breeze, A visitant that while it fans my cheek Doth seem half-conscious of the joy it brings From the green fields, and from yon azure sky. Whate'er its mission, the soft breeze can come To none more grateful than to me; escaped From the vast city, where I long had pined A discontented sojourner: now free, Free as a bird to settle where I will.

  William Wordsworth

  Grateful, Blessing, Cities

  1799-1805 The Prelude, bk.1, l.1-9 (published 1850).

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• A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.

  Douglas Coupland

  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “Hey Nostradamus!”, p.24, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I gave my heart to the mountains the minute I stood beside this river with its spray in my face and watched it thunder into foam, smooth to green glass over sunken rocks, shatter to foam again. I was fascinated by how it sped by and yet was always there; its roar shook both the earth and me.

  Wallace Stegner

  Heart, Rivers, Glasses

  Wallace Stegner (2015). “The Sound of Mountain Water: The Changing American West”, p.35, Vintage

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• My worthy friend, gray are all theories
  And green alone Life's golden tree.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Tree, Golden

  BookCaps, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2012). “Faust in Plain and Simple English: First Part of the Tragedy: (A Modern Translation and the Original Version): BookCaps Study Guide”, p.163, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I'm a classic emerald green Sixties Jaguar that nobody can own, but my husband is allowed to drive.

  Tori Amos

  Husband, Emerald Green, Emeralds

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• I'm on a frosting sailboat, tossed around by blue-green waves, the deck shifting beneath my feet.

  Suzanne Collins

  Blue, Feet, Shifting

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.1274, Scholastic Inc.

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• Stories,' the green-eyed Sigrid said, unperturbed, 'are like prayers. It does not matter when you begin, or when you end, only that you bend a knee and say the words.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Prayer, Doe, Stories

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• 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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• Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. I know of no sculpture, painting or music that exceeds the compelling spiritual command of the soaring shape of granite cliff and dome, of patina of light on rock and forest, and of the thunder and whispering of the falling, flowing waters. At first the colossal aspect may dominate; then we perceive and respond to the delicate and persuasive complex of nature.

  Ansel Adams

  Spiritual, Fall, Light

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• Two voices are there: one is of the deep; It learns the storm-cloud's thunderous melody, Now roars, now murmurs with the changing sea, Now bird-like pipes, now closes soft in sleep: And one is of an old half-witted sheep Which bleats articulate monotony, And indicates that two and one are three, That grass is green, lakes damp, and mountains steep And, Wordsworth, both are thine.

  William Wordsworth

  Sleep, Two, Voice

  William Wordsworth (1954). “The prelude: with a selection from the shorter poems, the sonnets, The recluse, and The excursion, and three essays on the art of poetry”, Harcourt College Pub

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• A white truffle, which elsewhere might sell for hundreds of dollars, seemed easier to come by than something fresh and green. What could be got from the woods was free and amounted to a diurnal dining diary that everyone kept in their heads. May was wild asparagus, arugula, and artichokes. June was wild lettuce and stinging nettles. July was cherries and wild strawberries. August was forest berries. September was porcini.

  Bill Buford

  Food, June, July

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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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