Quotes of Green - somelinesforyou

“ Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. ”

- Edward Gibbon

“ Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches. ”

- Federico Garcia Lorca

“ You're only young once, but you can be immature forever. ”

- John Greier

“ I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house. ”

- Jerome K. Jerome

“ Any one can count the seeds in an apple.. Only God can count the apples in a seed. ”

- Robert Schuller

“ Most ignorance is evincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know. ”

- Aldous Huxley

“ Bless... the two painting masters who first pointed out to me (raw young pupil that I was) that there was coming and going among trees, that there was sunlight in shadows. ”

- Emily Carr

“ Nature, exerting an unwearied power, Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower; Spreads the fresh verdure of the field, and leads The dancing Naiads through the dewy meads. ”

- William Cowper

“ ZEAL, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. A passion that goeth before a sprawl. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ The Green Party is like a watermelon - green on the outside and red on the inside. ”

- Rep. Bill Dannemeyer

“ Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph — green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree. ”

- Cyril Connolly

“ The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer. ”

- Dylan Thomas

“ One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green. ”

- John Gunther

“ Red meat is NOT bad for you. Now blue-green meat, THAT'S bad for you! ”

- Tommy Smothers

“ An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight… The truly wise person is colorblind. ”

- Albert Schweitzer

“ Underneath an apple-tree sat a maiden and her lover; And the thoughts within her he yearned, in silence, to discover. Round them danced the sunbeams bright, green the grass-lawn stretched before them while the apple blossoms white hung in rich profusion o'er them. ”

- Will Carleton

“ Lucille didn't care about messing herself up. A lot of stars of her stature wouldn't do physical comedy because they were afraid they'd get their hair messed up or they'd look bad. I remember once she fell into a vat of green dye. She came out with not only her hair green but everything was green! ”

- Gale Gordon

“ Old men tend to forget what thought was like in their youth; they forget the quickness of the mental jump, the daring of the youthful intuition, the agility of the fresh insight. They become accustomed to the more plodding varieties of reason, and because this is more than made up by the accumulation of experience, old men think themselves wiser than the young. ”

- Isaac Asimov

“ Society is like a lawn, where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface. He, however, who would study nature in its wildness and variety must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the torrent, and dare the precipice. ”

- Washington Irving

“ Each kid has a different level of expertise and some of them are very raw and inexperienced and some are incredibly mature and experienced. So you just have to go with what they are rather than have some abstract technique that you're going to try to apply to them. ”

- David Cronenberg

“ The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be. ”

- Robert Fulghum

“ The relationship between truth and a newspaper is like the relationship between the color green and the number seven. Occasionally you will see the number seven written in green, but you learn not to expect this. ”

- Garrison Keillor

“ The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet? ”

- Edwin Markham

“ Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. ”

- John Milton

“ Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans. ”

- Marcelene Cox

“ O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ I hate middle age. Too young for the bowling green, too old for Ecstasy. ”

- Ian Pattison

“ It isn't easy being green. ”

- Kermit the Frog

“ The tragic mistake of so many in the environmentalist movement is the belief that the rest of the world can afford to hold itself to our expensive green standards. ”

- Jonathan Berry
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