Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises. — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
For still there are so many things that I have never seen: in every wood in every spring there is a different green. — J. R. R. Tolkien
He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals. — Oscar Wilde
It's good to touch the green, green grass of home — Sayings
Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly. — Pablo Neruda
A country of long shadows on county cricket grounds, warm beer, green suburbs, dog lovers, and old maids cycling to holy communion through the morning mist. — John Major
Even in winter it shall be green in my heart. — Frederic Chopin
They'll sell you thousands of greens. Veronese green and emerald green and cadmium green and any sort of green you like; but that particular green, never. — Pablo Picasso
The beauty of love. The love of beauty. The greener you are, the wiser you will be. — Bob Marley
Dark green is my favorite color. It's the color of nature and the color of money and the color of moss! — Leonardo DiCaprio
China tea, the scent of hyacinths, wood fires and bowls of violets – that is my mental picture of an agreeable February afternoon. — Constance Spry
Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget. — Christina Rossetti
Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future. — Wallace Stegner
Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart. — Russell Page
Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world. — John Muir
Heaven is a house with porch lights. — Ray Bradbury
I feel I want to be wise with white hair in a tall library in a deep chair by a fireplace. — Gregory Corso
May you live to see the green grass growing over your grave. — Frank Richard Stockton
it would be lovely to sleep in a wild cherry-tree all white with bloom in the moonshine — Lucy Maud Montgomery
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep... — Robert Frost
Green Gables Image Quotes
The grass isn't greener on the other side. It's greener where you water it.
Gable Quotes
Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
I learned early on, having known the most handsome, successful, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Robert Taylor, don't ever spend too much time looking in the mirror. — Robert Stack
I watched Gene Kelly for his smile, for his energy. Vittorio Gassman for his movement. Clark Gable for his mustache. And I watched Lassie who was happy as a dog. — Jean Dujardin
The Grass is greener where you water it
It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one's life with pomp and blare... Perhaps it crept to one's side like an old friend through quiet ways. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
I love 'Anne of Green Gables.' I have for years. That's one of my favourite things. She's such a can-do kind of girl; that's why I'm crazy about her. — Aretha Franklin
Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper. — Gary Cooper
I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Clark Gable was the first to have called me a mermaid. — Esther Williams
Green Quotes
it always seems to me as if the lavender was a little woman in a green dress, with a lavender bonnet and a white kerchief. She's one of those strong, sweet, wholesome people, who always rest you, and her sweetness lingers long after she goes away. — Myrtle Reed
The other day the grass was brown, now its green cuz I ain't give up. Never surrender. — DJ Khaled
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. — Albert Schweitzer
I want daisies in my hair, green tea in my hand, and love in my heart
In my dreams and visions, I seemed to see a line, and on the other side of that line were green fields, and lovely flowers, and beautiful white ladies, who stretched out their arms to me over the line, but I couldn't reach them no-how. I always fell before I got to the line. — Harriet Tubman
Glance at the sun. See the moon and stars. Gaze at the beauty of the green earth. Now think. — Hildegard of Bingen
We all know the moon isn't made out of green cheese...but if it was made out of barbeque spare ribs would you eat it? — Will Ferrell
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. — Thomas Fuller
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. — William Blake
The hard thing when you get old is to keep your horizons open. The first part of your life everything is in front of you, all your potential and promise. But over the years, you make decisions; you carve yourself into a given shape. Then the challenge is to keep discovering the green growing edge. — Howard Thurman
My dear young fellow,' the Old-Green-Grasshopper said gently, 'there are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet. — Roald Dahl
Go Green Quotes
When the light turns green, you go. When the light turns red, you stop. But what do you do when the light turns blue with orange and lavender spots? — Shel Silverstein
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go. — Dr. Seuss
Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die. — Gil Scott-Heron
When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent. — RuPaul
Let me drink from the waters where the mountain streams flood Let the smell of wildflowers flow free through my blood Let me sleep in your meadows with the green grassy leaves Let me walk down the highway with my brother in peace Let me die in my footsteps Before I go down under the ground. — Bob Dylan
When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself "Yes indeed, all that belongs to me!" — Henri Rousseau
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
April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go. — Christopher Morley
On Melbourne summer mornings the green trams go rolling in stately progress down tunnels thick with leaves: the bright air carries along the avenue their patient chime, the chattering of their wheels. — Helen Garner
You make a right on L, make a left on O, come to a green light and that's when you can go. You keep straight on V, until you come to E, that's when you see a big sign that say's welcome to Love Street. — R. Kelly
Green Bay Quotes
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. — Vince Lombardi
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
winning is not everything it is the only thing — Vince Lombardi
There are three things important to every man in this locker room. His God, his family, and the Green Bay Packers. In that order. — Vince Lombardi
The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time. — Vince Lombardi
It's funny, but when there are dominant teams, there are a number of people who rail about the fact that they're always seeing the Dallas Cowboys or the San Francisco 49ers or the Green Bay either in the playoffs or in the Super Bowl. — Al Michaels
I also played in the 1967 Super Bowl against the Green Bay Packers. — Jim Otto
If you give me anything less than your best, you're not only cheating yourself. your coaches, your teamates, everybody in Green Bay, and everything pro football stands for. Your also cheating the Maker who gave you the talent. — Vince Lombardi
So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring, though this great day denies the thing, and mortifies the earth, and all, but your wild revels, and loose hall. — Henry Vaughan
In my final years in Green Bay, when I wasn't getting the ball, people would ask me why I never complained.
'Because these guys are my family,' I would say. 'I'm not selfish. It's not about me. It's about these guys, my family, and winning championships together. — Donald Driver
God is in his Heaven, all's right with the world. — Robert Browning
Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
People who haven’t red hair don’t know what trouble is. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them, is it? — Lucy Maud Montgomery
We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
I didn't really watch action films growing up! I grew up on stuff like 'Anne of Green Gables' - that was more when I was in elementary school. It was all I ever watched. — Gina Carano
You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair... People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is. — Anne Shirley
You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair," said Anne reproachfully. "People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I'll be through with them. That's a comforting thought — Lucy Maud Montgomery
I don't know, I don't want to talk as much. (...) It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Make a little room in your plans for romance again, Anne, girl. All the degrees and scholarships in the world can’t make up for the lack of it. ~Aunt Josephine to Anne in Anne Of Green Gables — Lucy Maud Montgomery
The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair." — Anne Shirley — Lucy Maud Montgomery
It's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it? — Lucy Maud Montgomery
True friends are always together in spirit. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-- that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive-it's such an interesting world. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting. — Sayings
But if you call me Anne, please call me Anne with an 'e'. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
It's not what the world holds for you. It's what you bring to it. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven't you? — Lucy Maud Montgomery
When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
I'm always sorry when pleasant things end. Something still pleasanter may come after, but you can never be sure. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back? — Lucy Maud Montgomery
It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it? — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Matthew, much to his own surprise, was enjoying himself. Like most quiet folks he liked talkative people when they were willing to do the talking themselves and did not expect him to keep up his end of it. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Do you think amethysts can be the souls of good violets? — Lucy Maud Montgomery
God's in His heaven, alls right with the world', whispered Anne softly. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
But really, Marilla, one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one? — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anne always remembered the silvery, peaceful beauty and fragrant calm of that night. It was the last night before sorrow touched her life; and no life is ever quite the same again when once that cold, sanctifying touch has been laid upon it. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
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