Greener Quotes Page 2

We can better see what we don't have.

The other man's grass is always greener and now we can actually go and visit his grass much more and feel the absence of green in our own lives.

The grass isn't always greener on the other side.

I start off kind of in love and then I leave love and I'm single.

Everybody always thinks the grass is always greener.

A lot of people are always striving for bigger and better.

People are always wondering if the grass is greener and then they'll​ start hearing things or meeting other people.

The grass is always greener where the fence isn't.

The cars that our children and grandchildren will be driving in the future will be greener as a result of high-tech lessons learned.

The field was even greener than my boy's mind had pictured it.

In later years, friends of ours visited Ireland and said the grass there was plenty green all right, but that not even the Emerald Isle itself was as green as the grass that grew in Ebbets Field.

I’ve talked to guys who have played for the Phillies and gone on to other organizations and the grass isn’t always greener on the other side.

The park grass looked greener, the park benches looked better and the flowers were trying harder.

I was always a 'grass is greener' kind of guy.

I think you make the best with what you've got, you know? Sometimes you have very little. And you just always try to rise to higher ground, because you're going to suffer one way or the other, so you just hope that you have strength and perseverance and good friends and faith, some kind of faith, to endure and move on to greener pastures.

Everybody thinks the grass is greener on the other side.

If you talk to most artists, they think they can play something, you know, "If I had stayed playing football in high school, if I had been doing basketball..." Everybody's got their fantasies and thinks the grass is greener. It's not. It's not.

Toil, and be strong; by toil the flaccid nerves Grow firm, and gain a more compacted tone: The greener juices are by toil subdued, Mellow'd, and subtilis'd; the vapid old Expell'd, and all the rancor of the blood.

Remember, the grass is always greener where you don't happen to be the neighbor.

In the story shoes are just a metaphor for what these girls go through.

..the grass is always greener and everyone always wants to be in somebody else's shoes; they don't want to be in their own.

A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten . . .

I love being married. I love my husband. I think married people always have that thing where they think that the grass is greener on the single side, but all my single friends are like, "Trust me, you don't want to have to actually interact with these people."

We could have a greener economy, even a greener consumer economy by changing the rules - whether it's by taxing carbon or trading carbon, I'm not sure what - but in the end there's just a fundamental problem with the sheer amount we're consuming.

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.

My guess is that most Australians today would vote for Babe.

A piglet who dreams of being a statesmanlike sheepdog. Who merely by asking politely, can lead the electorate two by two through the gate where the grass is always greener.

My weekends are spent hidden in the woods, and then I have to come back and pretend to be this very upper-crust insurance investigator. But, I mean, duality's nice. You never get bored. You can't say the grass is always greener if you're in both backyards.

Truth, Goodness, Beauty - those celestial thrins,Continually are born;

e'en now the Universe,With thousand throats, and eke with greener smiles,Its joy confesses at their recent birth.

Everything looks nicer when you win. The girls are prettier. The cigars taste better. The trees are greener.

...the grass actually IS greener on the other side, but it's only because of the bodies buried there.

Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation.

An actor's journey is never fulfilled.

We always look for greener pastures, better roles, better creativity. We all want to do good work.

Too often we think about the green economy as an elite market niche, one in which affluent people spend more money to consume greener and cleaner products.

As someone who makes his living as an actor, my routine varies almost every day.

There are weeks I'm working and weeks I'm not. People think it must be great to have all that time off, but you'd be surprised how quickly that grass would become greener. The idle brain is the devil's playground.

I'm in favor of anything that promotes greener solutions.

The grass is always greener. You think how wonderful it would be to be someone else, but I don't think I would like it. I'm thrilled to observe other people, but I don't want to be in their shoes. If I got there, I might find it not quite what I expected, and it would break my illusion, and I don't want that!

When you're winning the grass is greener, the cigars are sweeter and the girls are better looking!

Our green valleys will be greener once we fully grasp the infinite vitality of the green!

I guess the grass is always greener elsewhere.

I did 50 takes on Robert Shaw assembling the Greener Gun on 'Jaws.

' The shark wasn't working, so I just kept shooting to make the production report look like we were accomplishing something and to keep cast and crew from going crazy from boredom. It was a strategic indulgence.

I've always written songs to use music as a form of therapy or as a way to look at my obstacles or my memories from a different perspective. It's always helped me realize the grass isn't always greener and how I need to live more in the moment. My songwriting is a documentation of whatever's happening in my life at that point in time.