Green Quotes

Fenugreek, Tuesday's spice, when the air is green like mosses after rain.

~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Rained gently last night, just enough to wash the town clean, and then today a clean crisp fat spring day, the air redolent, the kind of green minty succulent air you'd bottle if you could and snort greedily on bleak, wet January evenings when the streetlights hzzzt on at four in the afternoon and all existence seems hopeless and sad.

~ Brian Doyle

In my opinion, actual heroism, like actual love, is a messy, painful, vulnerable business—and I wanted to try to reflect that.

~ John Green

Browns seek knowledge, Blues meddle in causes, and Whites consider the questions of truth with implacable logic. We all do some of it all, of course. But to be Green means to stand ready. In the Trolloc Wars, we were often called the Battle Ajah. All Aes Sedai helped where and when they could, but the Green Ajah alone was always with the armies, in almost every battle. We were the counter to the dreadlords. The Battle Ajah. And now we stand ready, for the Trollocs to come south again, for Tarmon Gai'don. the Last Battle. We will be there. That is what it means to be Green. -Alanna

~ Robert Jordan

Green Inferno was the truth, everything can be saw, how we were in the privous centuries, how did we survive and many other interesting stuff.So do you have the guts?

~ Deyth Banger

I believe that even 'returning-to-nature' and anti pollution activities, no matter how commendable, are not moving toward a genuine solution if they are carried out solely in reaction to the over development of the present age.

~ Masanobu Fukuoka

The wide corridor up the centre of E Block was floored with linoleum the colour of tired old limes, and so what was the Last Mile at other prisons was called the Green Mile at Cold Mountain.

~ Stephen King

England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.

~ John Burroughs

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

~ Ernest Hemingway

I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.

~ Gerald R. Ford

Instead of the cashier and ticket-ripper of the movie theater, the block chain consists of thousands of computers that can process digital tickets, money, and many other fiduciary objects in digital form. Think of thousands of robots wearing green eye shades, all checking each other's accounting.

~ Nick Szabo

The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.

~ Norman Douglas

'Make your plate look like a Christmas tree,' I tell people, 'mostly green with splashes of other bright colors.'

~ Victoria Moran

A country that cannot feed itself cannot have self-pride, and in the mid-'60s 20 percent of all the wheat produced in America came into India. We were agriculturally a basket case. And 15 years later, 20 years later, we have become an agricultural power. This is the famous Green Revolution.

~ Jairam Ramesh

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

~ Martin Luther

Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.

~ H. P. Lovecraft

I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.

~ Ella Maillart

Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a sea which never freezes and a continent which is ever green.

~ Helena Blavatsky

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

~ Barbara Jordan

Motown was about music for all people - white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our music alienate anyone.

~ Berry Gordy

Early in the morning, it's super tough for me to eat right away, but I still need energy for practice. I try to start out with a protein smoothie, a green juice, or some sort of fruit.

~ Venus Williams

Every morning, I wake up and make the most nutrient-dense green smoothie I can.

~ Claire Holt

I travel pretty frequently, but a few things that are routine are going for a run, getting my green tea in the morning, and checking email... well, all the time!

~ Payal Kadakia

I like coffee in the morning and decaf green tea throughout the day... When I was younger and modeling, to kick-start a diet I would do a juice cleanse.

~ Christie Brinkley

What is now called 'green architecture' is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that architecture has been engaged with for many years. It was one of the first professions that was deeply concerned with these issues and that had an intellectual response to them.

~ Rem Koolhaas

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

~ Doug Larson

I won't eat anything green.

~ Kurt Cobain

Okra is the closest thing to nylon I've ever eaten. It's like they bred cotton with a green bean. Okra, tastes like snot. The more you cook it, the more it turns into string.

~ Robin Williams

As I see it, a green salad is an open invitation to carrots, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, and the sprouts that grow in jars on my kitchen counter.

~ Victoria Moran

You don't have to live in the country and grow your own food to be green.

~ Shalom Harlow

I recycle. I have a house in the south of France and I have a small garden. My name is Dujardin - 'from the garden.' I grow carrots, peppers, strawberries, green beans, and things for salads, but there are lots of wild boars all around and they steal the food.

~ Jean Dujardin

Popeye was right about spinach: dark green, leafy vegetables are the healthiest food on the planet. As whole foods go, they offer the most nutrition per calorie.

~ Michael Greger

If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the 'right' thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It's like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip.

~ Robert Kiyosaki

For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.

~ Billie Joe Armstrong

The thing about Green Lantern rings is they pick whoever has potential to overcome great fear.

~ Geoff Johns

I used to drink tons of caffeine. Now I make smoothies with frozen berries and Green Vibrance health powder.

~ Leighton Meester

I try to eat whatever I want. I don't like putting myself on a diet, but I try to eat organic, healthy, and lean with lots of green vegetables.

~ Elsa Hosk

I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green.

~ Nicolas Cage

Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green.

~ Torquato Tasso

Many people still believe that 'green' solutions are too expensive, but they are actually much cheaper when all of the costs to public health, social services, and waste handling are factored into the same equation.

~ Majora Carter