Green Quotes

Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent. (H. P. Lovecraft)
Vehicular traffic is completely forbidden in the green strips, where tranquility shall reign and the curse of noise shall not penetrate. View quote
Le Corbusier
Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another. View quote
Vince Lombardi
The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship. View quote
Norman Douglas
Cereal production in the rain-fed areas still remains relatively unaffected by the impact of the green revolution, but significant change and progress are now becoming evident in several countries. View quote
Norman Borlaug
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose My youth is bend by the same wintry fever. View quote
Dylan Thomas
On a traffic light green means go and yellow means yield, but on a banana it's just the opposite. Green means hold on, yellow means go ahead, and red means where the hell did you get that banana at... View quote
Mitch Hedberg
My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life. View quote
Bill Watterson
When all the world is young, lad, And all the trees are green And every goose a swan, lad And every lass a queen Then hey for boot and horse, lad, And round the world away Young blood must have its course, lad, And every dog his day. View quote
Charles Kingsley
This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. (Francis Bacon)
When the voices of children are heard on the green, And laughing is heard on the hill, My heart is at rest within my breast, And everything else is still. View quote
William Blake
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. View quote
Albert Schweitzer
All theory, dear friend, is gray but the precious tree of life is green. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Admiral says that he never beheld so fair a thing trees all along the river, beautiful and green, and different from ours, with flowers and fruits each according to their kind, many birds and little birds which sing very sweetly. View quote
Christopher Columbus
Oh, Brignall banks are wild and fair, And Greta woods are green, And you may gather garlands there Would grace a summer's queen. View quote
Walter Scott
I won't eat anything green. View quote
Kurt Cobain
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously. View quote
Noam Chomsky
As long as skies are blue, and fields are green, Evening must usher night, night urge the morrow, Month follow month with woe, and year wake year to sorrow. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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)
Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. View quote
Doug Larson
When I was a kid, we never heard of smog, ozone depletion, acid rain, green house gasses. View quote
Dennis Weaver
Green is my favorite. And it's my favorite because it's the color of my wife's eyes, grass, trees, life, and money, and mother earth! View quote
Casper Van Dien
I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch. View quote
Ella Maillart