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Quotes About Green

But such monsters were not cause for astonishment. People then would have regarded them as everyday hazards, and in those days there was so much else to worry about. How to get food out of the hard ground; how not to run out of firewood; how to stop the sickness that could kill a dozen pigs in a single day and produce green rashes on the cheeks of children.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
I'd seriously contemplated a real collar - a sparkly green one - if only because I was sure it would offend his dignity.
~ Kelley Armstrong
It's fall coming, I thought, I can smell that sour-molasses smell of silage, clanging the air like a bell – smell like somebody's been burning oak leaves, left them to smolder overnight because they're too green.
~ Ken Kesey
A wind came up and broke the sea into green and silver chunks, like a field of glass and chrome, and the boat began to rock and pitch about more...The waves got bigger as we got closer to shore, and from the crests clots of white foam blew swirling up in the wind to join the gulls.
~ Ken Kesey
Now her eyes meet mine like green lightning-they are green, these eyes of hers, whose power is so indescribable-green, but as are precious stones, or deep unfathomable mountain lakes.
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
I think China is set up to surpass the US on the even more critical industry of green power.
~ Chris Paine
It was a green stone head of the demon Pazuzu, personification of the southwest wind.
~ William Peter Blatty
Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief
~ William Shakespeare
Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this bloodClean from my hand? No, this my hand will ratherThe multitudinous seas incarnadine,Making the green one red.
~ William Shakespeare
The memory be green.
~ William Shakespeare
Paper Towns for a Paper Girl, who wants to think and read clearly
~ John Green, Paper Towns
My eyes are green, Cause I eat a lot of vegetables, It don't have nothing to do with your new friend
~ Erykah Badu
Jealousy's eyes are green.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Just as the heart becomes carefree in a place of green, growing plants, goodwill and kindness are born when our souls enter happiness.
~ Rumi
También le dio nuevos colores a la nueva nación: verde, el color tradicional de los Braganza, y amarillo, en homenaje a su esposa porque era el color principal de la casa de Habsburgo.
~ Javier Moro
Once out in the bright green meadows of the valley he thought he would be safe from the thoughts that swarmed about him like a dream of reptiles.
~ Jean Stafford
Porque hubo un tiempo en el que yo también estuve en un valle verde y luminoso, fácil a la mano.
~ Elena Garro
When we found this nice green swamp, these nice green millions of reeds instead, why, they were so much better than the mud that we thought it was all just beautiful. And it is beautiful in an odd way, but you have to learn how to see it.
~ Elizabeth Enright
Suddenly, without preliminary fluttering or blinking, the closed eyes opened. They were a true, clear green, an unusual color for human eyes. They looked translucent, like seawater, and they focused on Jean with an expression of concentrated malevolence made all the more alarming by contrast with the placidity of the face in which they were set. The woman's compressed lips parted. "Here, too, O Lord?" a plaintive voice inquired.
~ Elizabeth Peters
She had dreamed that she lay beneath a spreading tree somewhere, a tree that whispered with ten thousand soft lips of green; and the dream continued for a moment even after waking.
~ Algernon Blackwood
You came, and the sun came after, And the green grew golden above; And the flag-flowers lightened with laughter, And the meadowsweet shook with love
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
I don't like it when the summer goes and the autumn comes, she said. Daniel took her by the shoulders and turned her round. He didn't say anything. But all across the landscape down behind them it was still sunlit blue and green. She looked up at him showing her how the summer was still there. Nobody spoke like Daniel. Nobody didn't speak like Daniel.
~ Ali Smith
Green like nightshade green, stab-your-heart darkness to make you afraid.
~ Alice Notley
Green as the inside of your thoughts where you can't go, they're too deep.
~ Alice Notley