Greener Quotes

The grass is always greener over the septic tank. (Erma Bombeck)
Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service. View quote
Robert Collier
This laurel greener from the brows Of him that utter'd nothing base. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The grass isn't always greener on the other side! View quote
Ricky Gervais
Ambition will take you And ride you too far and Conservatism bring you to boredom once more Sit down by the river And watch the stream flow Recall all the dreams That you once used to know The things you've forgotten That took you away To pastures not greener but meaner. View quote
Van Morrison
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. View quote
Robert Fulghum
Love dies in many different ways, and it's natural for the grass to seem greener on the other side. But it's not a competition; there's plenty of pain to go around. View quote
Rob Sheffield
If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher. View quote
Debbie Macomber
Give,” said the little stream, "Give, oh give, give, oh give,” As it hurried down the hill. "I am small, I know, but wherever I go The fields grow greener still. View quote
Fanny J. Crosby
Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation. View quote
Ed Rendell
The grass is always greener around the fire hydrant. (Jeff Rich)
Everybody always thinks the grass is always greener. View quote
Patrick Ewing
Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it. View quote
Rachel Field
A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
When I do stand-up for a long time, I'll get burned out, then I'll get an acting gig. For me, the grass is always greener. I'd like to do a mixture of all of it. My goal is just to do small movies that I've written. That's what I'm trying to do now, just write smaller movies. View quote
Zach Galifianakis
On certain projects, on big public projects, people definitely are interested in making them greener, but on smaller projects with tight budgets it can be harder. View quote
Frank Gehry
[W]e do live in a conceptual trough that encourages such yearning for unknown and romanticized greener pastures of other times. The future doesn't seem promising, if only because we can extrapolate some disquieting present trends into further deterioration: pollution, nationalism, environmental destruction, and aluminum bats. Therefore, we tend to take refuge in a rose-colored past [...]. I do not doubt the salutary, even the essential, properties of this curiously adaptive human trait, but we must also record the down side. Legends of past golden ages become impediments when we try to negotiate our current dilemma. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
...the grass isn't always greener on the other side. What the younger generation didn't understand was that the grass was greener where it's watered, which meant that both Frank and Amanda had to get out their hoses if they wanted to make things better. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
I am sure I do not know why the beauty of Monte Carlo should not satisfy more than it does. The bluest of all seas is nowhere bluer than when you see it between the marble balustrades of the long white terrace before the casino, palms are nowhere greener than in that high garden which the mountain screen from every unkind breath, no colours could be more rich and various than those of the red and purple Alps that tower up behind the town, on whose summit such violent thunderstorms gather and break. But for me, at least, there was not at all the pleasure I had anticipated in this dazzling white and blue, these feathery palms and ragged Alps. ...I had a continual restless feeling that there was nothing at all real about Monte Carlo; that the sea was too blue to be wet, the casino too white to be anything but pasteboard, and that from their very greenness the palms must be cotton. ... in atmosphere and spirit the entire kingdom of Monaco is an extension of the casino. View quote
Willa Cather
People often ask me whether I prefer theater or film, and the answer is that I prefer the one I'm not doing: The grass is always greener. View quote
Helen Mirren
The beauty of love. The love of beauty. The greener you are, the wiser you will be. (Bob Marley)
Alone of all the races on earth, they seem to be free from the 'Grass is Greener on the other side of the fence' syndrome, and roundly proclaim that Australia is, in fact, the other side of that fence. View quote
Douglas Adams
The park grass looked greener, the park benches looked better and the flowers were trying harder. View quote
Charles Bukowski
And I'd like to give my love to everybody, and let them know that the grass may look greener on the other side, but believe me, it's just as hard to cut. View quote
Little Richard
A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten . . . View quote
Mary E. Pearson