Top 1200 Green World Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.

Finnick!" Something between a shriek and a cry of joy. A lovely if somewhat bedraggled young woman--dark tangled hair, sea green eyes--runs toward us in nothing but a sheet. "Finnick!" And suddenly, it's as if there's no one in the world but these two, crashing through space to reach each other. They collide, enfold, lose their balance, and slam against a wall, where they stay. Clinging into one being. Indivisible. A pang of jealousy hits me. Not for either Finnick or Annie but for their certainty. No one seeing them could doubt their love.

Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids.

I remember, when I started acting officially, I was unbelievably green. My first audition tapes were just horrendous.

By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone; That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone.

When I was a kid, we never heard of smog, ozone depletion, acid rain, green house gasses.

The big issues, the things that scar Scotland - the least of them is whether we should have a border at Gretna Green or not.

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.

The greening of the desert means sowing seeds in people's hearts and creating a green paradise of peace on earth.

I think that I've been pigeon-holed by virtue of the fact that I've spent so much time in front of a green screen.

I mean, seriously, what lady of taste could resist a shiny green head of hair like mine?

For winter's rains and ruins are over... And in Green under wood and cover Blossum by blossom the spring begins.

Smash together the Grammys, Oscars, Emmys, and Tonys, and you get the Green Room at the Kennedy Center Honors.

A man who never lies must have green blood in his veins, or blue or yellow, but definitely not red!

The green is so narrow that if you over-club, you've got an impossible bunker shot. If you're short, you're pretty much dead.

When I'm writing about complicated subjects, it usually involves a world. It could be the world of Scientology or the world of Al Qaeda, or the world of counter-terrorism.I look for emblematic beasts of burden - what I call "donkeys" - who can carry the reader through this world. They serve a different purpose. Donkeys are not especially interesting or likeable, but they are serviceable. They will take you into this world. The distinction I'm trying to make is: It's not about them. It's about the world.

From the Green New Deal to open borders, President Biden is working for the partisan progressives - not the American taxpayers.

It's more likely I'll dye my hair green, get a bunch of tattoos and go on tour with Amy Winehouse.

Most of the energy consumed is for heating, cooling, and transport. By massively deploying green gas, we could decarbonize all that.

Wheresoever thou findest a high mountain or a lofty hill and a green tree, know that an idol is there!

So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.

The Green Party is full of motivated, driven people who want to make change happen as fast as possible.

Every St. Patrick's Day in my hometown is such a huge thing. You know, it was like Christmas, but in green.

There are so many possibilities of life out there that an alien doesn't have to have green, long tentacles. They can be very similar to us.

As long as a man has a golden heart, it does not matter whether he has green blood or blue skin!

You can't go do the Green New Deal. It's a set of aspirations that don't really bring us to sensible action.

Green thoughts emerge from some deep source of stillness which the very fact of winter has released.

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

My father, Arthur, was a fishmonger, first at Billingsgate market and later in Camden Town and Golders Green.

I do wear lipstick because when I suddenly get pale or green, it seems whole blood goes away.

If you see the humanity in the world, grains of sand that bring everything to a halt - corruption, clashes of egos, human factors more than resources. So, how to avoid that? There’s a lack of human maturity. So it’s not been a fertile exercise to perfect yourself to some extent before you serve others, otherwise it’s like cutting the wheat when it’s still green. And nobody is fed by that. So we need a minimum of readiness to efficiently and wisely be at the service of others. So compassion needs also to be sort of enlightened by wisdom. Otherwise, it’s blind.

"If it wasn’t for the mist we could see your home across the bay," said Gatsby. "You always have a green light that burns at the end of your dock." Daisy put her arm through his abruptly but he seemed absorbed in what he had just said. Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. Compared to the great distance that had separated him from Daisy it had seemed very near to him, almost touching her. It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was again a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted things had diminished by one.

The warm green of the grass, sprinkled with flowers of many hues, is a carpet whereon we walk with noiseless tread.

Three of the most beneficial, longevity promoting anti-cancer foods are green vegetables, beans, and onions.

We tend to talk about the world in a myriad of ways - a microscopic world of elementary particles, a biological world of organisms and evolution, a social world of morality and meaning. But it's all the same underlying world. That's the underlying theme of 'The Big Picture.'

The Green Climate Fund is very much a strategic building block in the architecture for financing sustainable development.

When I filmed 'Power Rangers,' almost everything was being assisted by a green screen, but it wasn't the same with 'Stranger Things.'

I lit a thin green candle to make you jealous of me, but the room just filled up with mosquitoes.

It's an honor to see that green jacket in the bedroom closet, but I'm not going to become somebody else because I won the Masters.

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.

I used to go with solid blue, but recently I've found that a mix of red and green is a better fit for my personality.

The word 'indie' is meaningless now. It's so over-used that people think it simply means green hair.

Don't get the green disease of envy. Don't be fooled by success and money. Don't let anything come between you and your work.

The colours red, blue and green are real. The colour yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody.

When I'm working with improv people, I give them the green light to just bring it and try things.

I'm the only man with a Dallas Cowboys Super Bowl ring who doesn't wear it. I'm a Green Bay Packer.

The creation of millions of secure, well-paid jobs must be at the forefront of any Green Industrial Revolution.

Let the blue sky overhead, The green earth on which ye tread, All that must eternal be Witness the solemnity.

In the U.S., those requesting a Green Card must take an oath that they will fulfill the rights and duties of citizenship.

There is no question that the Green Party has work to do in addressing racism, anti-Semitism, systemic discrimination in all its forms.

I'm a huge fan of Green Day's album 'American Idiot'; it was just a whole, very thorough experience.

I have a green juice in the morning - a big one - with kale, spinach, celery, cucumber, two lemons and lots of ginger.

Suffice it to say that black and white are also colors... for their simultaneous contrast is as striking as that of green and red, for instance.

Germany is using its Energiewende policy as a way of envisioning a green transformation and innovation across many sectors.

To quit between tee and green is more habit-forming than drinking a highball before breakfast.

We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long.

I rose from marsh mud algae, equisetum, willows, sweet green, noisy birds and frogs.

I think China is set up to surpass the US on the even more critical industry of green power.

Beckendorf closed eyes tight and brought his hand up to his watch. from that distance, the explosion shook the world. Heat seared the back of my head. The Princess Andromeda blew up from both sides, a massive fireball of green flame roiling into the dark sky, consuming everything....I stared out the window into deep blue water. Beckendorf was supposed to go to college in the fall. He had a girlfriend, lots of friends, his whole life ahead of him. He couldn't be gone.

I feel really strongly about immigration because my mom is... from Jamaica. She still has a green card here.