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Quotes About Green

All in green went my love ridingon a great horse of goldinto the silver dawn.
~ e. e. cummings
People at Stettin drop things into boats out of overhanging warehouses. At least, our cousins do, but aren't particularly rich. The town isn't interesting, except for a clock that rolls its eyes, and the view of the Oder, which truly is something special. Oh, Mrs. Wilcox, you would love the Oder! The river, or rather rivers—there seem to be dozens of them—are intense blue, and the plain they run through an intensest green.
~ E.M. Forster
I had never been to a fashion show before going to the Burberry show last month. It was an extraordinary spectacle. I was incredibly green and had no idea what an undertaking it is. I also have a new respect for models because they are so close to the front row and must be so self-conscious.
~ Eddie Redmayne
In the greenest of our valleysBy good angels tenanted,Once a fair and stately palace—Radiant palace—reared its head.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Beautiful as a dandelion-blossom, golden in the green grass, This life can be. Common as a dandelion-blossom, beautiful in the clean grass, not beautiful Because common, beautiful because beautiful, Noble because common, because free.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
Lavender clouds sail like a fleet of ships across the pale green dawn; each cloud, planed flat on the wind, has a base of fiery gold.
~ Edward Abbey
I believe that the military-industrial state will eventually collapse, possibly even in our lifetime, and that a majority of us (if prepared) will muddle through to a freer, more open, less crowded, green and spacious agrarian society. (Maybe; of course it may be only a repeat of the middle ages.)
~ Edward Abbey
From the Valley of the Jolly . . . Ho! Ho! Ho! . . . Green Giant.
~ Anonymous
Anyone acquainted with Ireland knows that the morning of St. Patrick's Day consists of the night of the seventeenth of March flavored strongly with the morning of the eighteenth.
~ Anonymous
Oh, Paddy, dear, an' did ye hear the news that's goin' round? The shamrock is forbid by law to grow on Irish ground! No more St. Patrick's Day we'll keep, his colour can't be seen, For there's a cruel law agin' the Wearin' o' the green.
~ Anonymous
What color should be seen Where our fathers' homes have been But their own immortal Green?
~ Anonymous
O Paddy dear, an' did ye hear the news that's goin' round?The shamrock is by law forbid to grow on Irish ground!No more St. Patrick's Day we'll keep, his color can't be seen,For there's a cruel law agin the wearin' o' the Green!
~ Anonymous
Every day is Earth Day.
~ Anonymous
I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
~ Anonymous
Ye Highlands and ye Lawlands,O where hae ye been?They hae slain the Earl of Murray,And laid him on the green.
~ Anonymous: Ballads
Lavender's blue, dilly dilly, lavender's green;When I am king, dilly dilly, you shall be queen.
~ Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes
The only french sentence he could call to mind was a passage which had caused him some trouble in class the previous day. So far as he had been able to judge the translation was: 'the gentleman who wears one green hat approaches himself all of a sudden.
~ Anthony Buckeridge
thought for a moment. A very public threat from a well-known feminist writer. A mysterious message in green paint. An incredibly expensive bottle of wine.
~ Anthony Horowitz
'Lovecraft Country' is reclaiming all these pulp genres for people of color.
~ Misha Green
When I am disgusted by certain American politicians, I fantasize moving away to Finland - a country in which I have worked a little, and which I see as a pure blue and green place of unpolluted lakes, peaceful forests, and pristine social-democratic values.
~ Martha Nussbaum
'Anne of Green Gables'! I'd love to be the nosy neighbor that gives Anne a mouthful and then gets puts in her place.
~ Lennon Parham
I am a professional creator of online video and I have had that job since the moment of its existence. I'm also something of a professional advocate for, and follower of, online video.
~ Hank Green
Avocado is one of my favourite fruits, and my daughters and I love avocado in salads, and even in smoothies.
~ David Kirsch
A faint green-pearl luminescence etched the eastern horizon.
~ Frank Herbert