Green famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I was a huge Beatles fan. The Stones, Dylan. Later on, I got into Stevie Wonder, and Bill Withers - he's one of my heroes. Al Green, too.
-- Adam Levine -
I spent most of my seventh grade summer dehydrated, green-tongued, and smelling like a Malaysian whorehouse.
-- Aisha Tyler -
Wisdom is in yourself, just like a sweet ripe mango is already in a young green one.
-- Ajahn Chah -
American love — like coke in green glass bottles...they don't make it anymore.
-- Alan Moore -
No ray of sunlight is ever lost, but the green which it awakes into existence needs time to sprout, and it is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest. All work that is worth anything is done in faith.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
I never thought about the green, but LA has a lot of greenery.
-- Alex Prager -
If you don't know what makes green, you're going to try every color combination.
-- Alison Krauss -
Ultimately, the only wealth that can sustain any community, economy or nation is derived from the photosynthetic process - green plants growing on regenerating soil.
-- Allan Savory -
Maybe I should drive a hybrid. I do have a shirt that says, 'Go Green.'
-- Amanda Seyfried -
There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state.
-- Andre Breton -
Annihilating all that's made, To a green thought in a green shade.
-- Andrew Marvell -
Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right.
-- Anna Deavere Smith -
My eyes are green, my hair is silver and I freckly; the rest is subject to change without notice.
-- Anne McCaffrey -
No matter where I go or how I change, I'll always be your Anne. Anne of Green Gables.
-- Anne Shirley -
The obvious precedent for Beijing 2008 was the Berlin Olympics, in 1936. Both were showcases for a muscle-flexing nation, although Hitler made an elementary error when he chose not to dress his young National Socialists in lime-green catsuits laced with twinkling fairy lights.
-- Anthony Lane -
Call in the Caped Crusader, Green Hornet, Kato, too. I'm in so much trouble I don't know what to do.
-- Aretha Franklin -
Working with David Gordon Green, and Jonah Hill, and Michael Cera, and Drew Barrymore, and all of those people - those are the best people in comedy to work with. Anna Faris. You know, that's my goal, to keep learning and to just keep working with the best people I can. And yeah, we do all hang out, and we all kind of know each other.
-- Ari Graynor -
Martina's like the old Green Bay Packers. You know exactly what she's going to do, but there isn't a thing you can do about it.
-- Arthur Ashe -
O pastoral heart of England! like a psalm Of green days telling with a quiet beat.
-- Arthur Quiller-Couch -
And from then on, I bathed in the Poem of the Sea, star-infused, and opalescent, devouring green azures
-- Arthur Rimbaud -
I've always been a rocker. Like ever since I was really young. I had a crush on the Green Day guys. That's always been what I was like and been my interest.
-- Ashlee Simpson -
I listen to all kinds of bands. I like rock music, like, male rock bands. I'm more into that instead of female singers. I like Nirvana, Green Day, System Of A Down. I also like punk rock, and I love bands like Coldplay.
-- Avril Lavigne -
I don't need to know where the green is. Where is the golf course?
-- Babe Ruth -
My first term I sang Al Green... in my second term, I'm going with Young Jeezy .
-- Barack Obama -
When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
-- Barry McGuire -
Death is not rare, alas! nor burials few, And soon the grassy coverlet of God Spreads equal green above their ashes pale.
-- Bayard Taylor -
Regarding green screen, green screen is really like doing some stage work. You have to make believe that there is a window, make believe that something is there that is really not there and convince the audience. It's part of acting.
-- Benicio Del Toro -
Banquet: a plate of cold, hairy chicken and artificially coloured green peas completely surrounded by dreary speeches and appeals for donations.
-- Bennett Cerf -
I have been 130 lbs. as well as 215 lbs. I have had blond, strawberry blond, green, pink and purple hair, and none of that has ever exempted me from having lewd comments flung at me in the street.
-- Beth Ditto -
The roof of my house is covered in solar panels. When Im home, Im a pretty green fellow.
-- Bill McKibben -
And the needles of the pine trees, freshly washed to a deep, rich green, shimmered with droplets that blinked like clear crystals.
-- Billie Letts -
I don't like movies that are shot on green screen much, you know. I mean, I know that's the thing to do, and I know that it's getting. I'll put it this way; David Lean would probably kill himself, you know, again if he knew that people were watching Lawrence of Arabia on a telephone.
-- Billy Bob Thornton -
We need to invest dramatically in green energy, making solar panels so cheap that everybody wants them. Nobody wanted to buy a computer in 1950, but once they got cheap, everyone bought them.
-- Bjorn Lomborg -
I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.
-- Bob Brown -
Golf is my profession Show business is just to pay the green fees.
-- Bob Hope -
One of the most amazing things I got from the film, so much green screen, there are so many moments and it really taught me about how important it is to have an intention when flying, when going somewhere and having an intention.
-- Brandon Routh -
I think the 16 years that I spent in Green Bay speaks for itself.
-- Brett Favre -
As Dennis Green used to say, there really is a time for pay and a time to play. And right now we're in the time for pay. That's just the reality of it.
-- Brian Billick -
I'm trying to be as green as I can. As an airline pilot, I have a carbon footprint that's a size 10, so it's pretty hard.
-- Bruce Dickinson -
I'm not that interested in fashion... When someone says that lime-green is the new black for this season, you just want to tell them to get a life.
-- Bruce Oldfield -
Winning the green jacket is great - I can pay for all the diapers I'm going to have to get.
-- Bubba Watson -
It's a dream come true for Bubba Watson from Bagdad, Florida to have the green jacket on.
-- Bubba Watson -
Look for the valleys, the green places, and fly through them. There will always be a way through.
-- C. S. Lewis -
I came to love Fenway. It was a place that rejuvenated me after a road trip; the fans right on top of you, the nutty angles. And the Wall. That was my baby, the left-field wall, the Green Monster.
-- Carl Yastrzemski -
I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?
-- Carson McCullers -
Concentrate on hitting the green. The cup will come to you.
-- Cary Middlecoff -
He guides us into pastures green, He leads to bowers of bliss, Our Father lives, the God unseen, and Christ our Shepherd is.
-- Cecil Frances Alexander -
Twitter is a form of free speech, and I'm all for that. But if Cee Lo Green, a maverick of sorts, can't get on Twitter and say something outlandish or outrageous, then what is the whole point of Twitter at all?
-- Cee Lo Green -
If it doesn't swim, run, or fly, or isn't green and grow in the ground, don't eat it.
-- Charles Poliquin -
Art is the flower... life the green leaf.
-- Charles Rennie Mackintosh -
I'm getting so old, I don't even buy green bananas anymore.
-- Chi Chi Rodriguez -
Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off.
-- Chris Patten -
Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget.
-- Christina Rossetti -
Being green and clean is not just an aspiration but an action.
-- Christine Pelosi -
White on rice. Green on grass. Sheets on a bed. Him on her.
-- Cindy Gerard -
I'm an illegal alien and have been for many years. If you rub my skin, I go green.
-- Claire Forlani -
The prime of life is that fleeting time between green and over-ripe.
-- Cullen Hightower -
There's been a long-standing relationship between me and individual members of the Green Party.
-- Cynthia McKinney -
Yes, the Green Party is committed to a healthy environment. But the Green Party is not solely committed to just that.
-- Cynthia McKinney -
I mean, seriously, what lady of taste could resist a shiny green head of hair like mine?
-- Darren Shan -
Everybody who I ever cared about has told me that they like my music: Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Al Green, The Spinners, Smokey Robinson. Everybody that matters.
-- Daryl Hall -
I couldn't take pictures of green rolling hills.
-- David Byrne -
Well what a turn-up. From professional footballer to television presenter to green politician. Whatever next?
-- David Icke -
But I must say the work I'm proudest of is the Green Cross Code man.
-- David Prowse -
As for UFO's ... I do believe there is a dimension that we don't understand. Not sure about little green martians, though.
-- David Shuster -
Green Day was more of the influence than Blink.
-- Deryck Whibley -
When I was growing up, Green Day had just come out.
-- Deryck Whibley -
My God - it's a green child!" said the American. "What is this place - the House of Usher?
-- Dodie Smith -
Handle even a single leaf of green in such a way that it manifests the body of the Buddha. This in turn allows the Buddha to manifest through the leaf.
-- Dogen -
I'm not a great fan of green screen. It's not much fun for actors. It's great for directors and technical people and cameramen.
-- Dominic West -
Suddenly a mist of green on the trees, as quiet as thought.
-- Dorothy Richardson -
Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.
-- Doug Larson -
A red, red rose, all wet with dew, With leaves of green by red shot through.
-- E. Nesbit -
I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad tracks - and green things started to grow there!
-- Ed Begley, Jr. -
But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and prophyry. Life has no weapons against a woman like that.
-- Edna Ferber -
Any number of holier-than-thou honorable realists walk around in the belief that they have accomplished something, simply because they tell you for the hundredth time that a field is green and a red-painted house is painted red.
-- Edvard Munch -
The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?
-- Edwin Markham -
A great acacia, with its slender trunk And overpoise of multitudinous leaves. (In which a hundred fields might spill their dew And intense verdure, yet find room enough) Stood reconciling all the place with green.
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.
-- Ella Maillart -
I long for the countryside. That's where I get my calm and tranquillity - from being able to come and find a spot of green.
-- Emilia Clarke -
Wait," said Butler. "Just wait, Holly. Artemis has a plan." He squinted through the green dome. "What is your plan, Artemis?" All Artemis could do was smile and shrug.
-- Eoin Colfer -
Barack Obama has raised tons of money. That is what he means by being green.
-- Evan Sayet -
Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days! None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise.
-- Fitz-Greene Halleck -
There were days when Keanu was looking a little green from the amount of cigarettes we were having him smoke.
-- Francis Lawrence -
I never said I was opposed to the LEED program or to green building - I'm not.
-- Frank Gehry -
This is a dream come true. I have wanted to tour with Green Day since I was 15.
-- Frank Iero -
Even in winter it shall be green in my heart.
-- Frederic Chopin -
You are either green and growing, or ripe and rotting.
-- Frosty Westering -
In the snow outside my window I see a small green frog, one eye blinking and the other wide open, unmoving, looking at me . I know this is God.
-- Gao Xingjian -
I think I look great in green, and I'm going to start wearing more green.
-- Garry Shandling -
I didn't know the Green Lantern comics at all. I was a Superman reader.
-- Geoffrey Rush -
Someone told me that there's a connection to Superman, that in an early edition of the Green Lantern comics, Tomar Re was the envoy to Krypton. That was fascinating to me.
-- Geoffrey Rush -
If you’re famous, I don’t—for the life of me—I don’t understand why any famous person would ever be on Twitter. Why on God’s green earth would you be on Twitter? Because first of all, the worst thing you can do is make yourself more available, right?
-- George Clooney -
For the forest to be green, each tree must be green.
-- George Harrison -
I always figure I have this tree and there's always some green fruit that's not ready to pick or blossoms that are ready to flower; there are always some ready to drop off too.
-- Graeme Murphy -
As a lifelong Oregonian, I prefer our forests green, not black.
-- Greg Walden
