Best green & grows Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I don't think I ate a green vegetable until I was 30. I didn't grow up with a mom who enforced that at all.”

Thinking Grows Growing Up Mom Green Vegetables

“Let every Christian be a gardener so that he and she and the whole of creation, which groans in expectation of the Spirit's final harvest, may inherit Paradise. If we Christian's truly treasure the hope that one day we, like Adam and the penitent thief, will walk alongside the One who caused even the dead wood of the Cross to blossom with flowers, then we must also imitate the Master's art and make the desolate earth grow green.”

Source: Inheriting Paradise: Meditations on Gardening

“There's a cool web of language winds us in, Retreat from too much joy or too much fear: We grow sea-green at last and coldly die In brininess and volubility.”

Lasts Joy Dies Language Grows Too Much Sea Wind Green Retreat

Author:Robert Graves

“A silence reigns upon the air, Upon the pansies by the shore, Upon the violets, pale and fair, Upon the willow, bending o'er; The reeds and lilies silent grow, The dark green waters silent sleep, Save when the summer breezes blow, Or silvery minnows leap.”

Grows Water Dark Sleep Silence Air Summer Fairs Green Silent Blow Leap Shore Pale Reign Breeze Violet Lilies Reeds Bending Pansies Summer Breeze Minnows

Book:Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems

Source: Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems

“Baseball is about homecoming. It is a journey by theft and strength, guile and speed, out around first to the far island of second, where foes lurk in the reefs and the green sea suddenly grows deeper, then to turn sharply, skimming the shallows, making for a shore that will show a friendly face, a color, a familiar language and, at third, to proceed, no longer by paths indirect but straight, to home.”

Source: A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti

“Grass is the forgiveness of nature-her constant benediction. Fields trampled with battle, saturated with blood, torn with the ruts of cannon, grow green again with grass and carnage is forgotten. Streets abandoned by traffic become grass-grown, like rural lanes and are obliterated. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal.”

Source: Selections from the Writings of John J. Ingalls

“This world could not exist if it were not so simple. The ground has been tilled a thousand years, yet its powers remain ever the same; a little rain, a little sun, and each spring it grows green again.”

Ifs World Years Littles Has Beens Grows Nature Simple Sun This World Thousand Spring Rain Green Thousand Years

Book:Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life

Source: Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life

“Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Here grow the wallflower and the violet. The squirrel will come and sit upon your knee, the logcock will wake you in the morning. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill. Of all the upness accessible to mortals, there is no upness comparable to the mountains.”

Grows Nature Sleep Morning Mountain Green Ill Woods Mortals Knees Violet Repose Forgetfulness Squirrels Camping Wakes You

Book:John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

“It is the artists who make the true value of the world, though at times they may have to starve to do it. They are like earthworms, turning up the soil so things can grow, eating dirt so that the rest of us may eat green shoots.”

World May Artist Values Grows Eating Green Soil Dirt True Value

Book:Serenissima

Source: Serenissima

“The delirium and horror of the East. The dusty catastrophe of Asia. Green only on the banner of the Prophet. Nothing grows here except mustaches.”

Grows Horror Green East Prophet Catastrophe Asia Banner Delirium Mustache

Author:Joseph Brodsky

“O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as the time steals onwards, while none perceives Slowly she clothes herself with leaves-- Hides her fruit under them, hard to find. . . . . But by and by, when the flowers grow few And the fruits are dwindling and small to view-- Out she comes in her matron grace With the purple myriads of her race; Full of plenty from root to crown, Showering plenty her feet adown. While far over head hang gorgeously Large luscious berries of sanguine dye, For the best grows highest, always highest, Upon the mulberry-tree.”

Long Hard Grows Views Race Grace Tree Feet Flower Clothes Highest Roots Green Fruit Stealing Plenty Perceive Queens Crowns Purple Berries Sanguine Mulberry

Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

“Your seed has been covered with so many layers of culture, etiquitte, education, religion, country, that you have completely forgotten that you are here to grow, that you have become a lush green bush full of flowers, fragrance, dancing in the wind and in the rain and in the sun.”

Has Beens Country Culture Grows Sun Wind Flower Rain Green Dancing Forgotten Seeds Covered Layers Fragrance Lush

Author:Rajneesh

“As an Irish person, there's a historical fascination with America: America is the default green and promised land for Irish people and Italians; that's what we grow up with.”

People Persons America Grows Growing Up Land Green Historical Fascination Default Promised Land

Author:Dylan Moran

“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!”

Next Grows Behinds Green Track Holes Scrap Railroads Burying Railroad Tracks Green Things

Author:Ed Begley, Jr.

“GOING TO WALDEN It isn't very far as highways lie. I might be back by nightfall, having seen The rough pines, and the stones, and the clear water. Friends argue that I might be wiser for it. They do not hear that far-off Yankee whisper: How dull we grow from hurrying here and there! Many have gone, and think me half a fool To miss a day away in the cool country. Maybe. But in a book I read and cherish, Going to Walden is not so easy a thing As a green visit. It is the slow and difficult Trick of living, and finding it where you are.”

Source: The River Styx, Ohio, and other poems

“When Eleanor's arm touched his he felt his hands grow cold with deadly fear lest he should lose the shadow brush with which his imagination was painting wonders of her. He watched her from the corners of his eyes as ever he did when he walked with her-- she was a feast and a folly and he wished it had been his destiny to sit forever on a haystack and see life through her green eyes.”

Should Hands Eye Grows Felt Loses Imagination Wonder Destiny Forever Painting Arms Cold Shadow Green Corners His Eyes Folly Touched Brushes Eleanor Green Eyes

Book:This Side of Paradise

Source: This Side of Paradise

“Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And what right would that ruin have to bid a budding woodbine cover its decay with freshness?" Jane: "You are no ruin sir - no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them or not, because they take delight in your bountiful shadow; and as they grow they will lean towards you, and wind round you, because your strength offers them so safe a prop.”

Asks Grows Tree Wind Offers Safe Shadow Roots Green Plant Rounds Delight Ruins Decay Lightning Jane Lighting Vigorous Props Freshness Orchard Chestnuts Rochester

Author:Charlotte Bronte

“He has his good side and his bad side. Very dark indeed is his majesty when he wants to be. When he was young, he made a choice, like a tree does when it decides to grow one way or the other. He grew large and green until he shadowed over the whole forest, but most of his branches are twisted.”

Way Want Doe Made Whole Young Choices Grows Sides Dark Tree Grew Green Forests One Way Branches Twisted Majesty

Book:The House of the Scorpion

Source: The House of the Scorpion

“I kept glancing at him and away from him, as if his green eyes were hurting me. In modern parlance he was a laser beam. Deadly and delicate he seemed. His victims had always loved him. And I had always loved him, hadn't I, no matter what happened, and how strong could love grow if you had eternity to nourish it, and it took only these few moments in time to renew its momentum, its heat? -Lestat”

Source: The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned

“Keep the corners of your mouth turned up. Speak in a low, persuasive tone. Listen; be teachable. Laugh at good stories and learn to tell them...For as long as you are green, you can grow.”

Long Stories Speak Grows Laughing Lows Mouths Green Corners Tone Good Story Persuasive Teachable

Author:Mother Teresa

“Dear White Fella When I am born I’m black When I grow up I’m black When I am sick I’m black When I go out ina sun I’m black When I git cold I’m black When I git scared I’m black And when I die I’m still black. But you white fella When you’re born you’re pink When you grow up you’re white When you git sick you’re green When you go out ina sun you go red When you git cold you go blue When you git scared you’re yellow And when you die you’re grey And you got the cheek to call me coloured?”

Stills Dies Grows Black Born White Sun Growing Up Cold Red Sick Blue Green Dear Scared Call Me Yellow Cheeks Grey Fellas

Author:Steven Pinker

“Silver flow the streams from Celos to Erui In the green fields of Lebennin! Tall grows the grass there. In the wind from the Sea The white lilies sway, And the golden bells are shaken of mallos and alfirin In the green fields of Lebennin, In the wind from the Sea!”

Grows White Sea Fields Wind Flow Green Golden Grass Streams Silver Tall Bells Lilies Green Fields

Book:The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings

Source: The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings

“I grow green beans in my garden. The one thing I know about harvesting them is that you need to train your eyes to see the beans. At first it all looks like leaves, until you see one bean and then another and another. If you want clarity, too, you have to look hard. You have to look under things and look from different angles. You'll see what you need to when you do that. A hundred beans, suddenly.”

Ifs Knows Want Needs Firsts Looks Different Hard Eye Grows One Thing Hundred Garden Green Train Clarity Angle Beans Different Angles Green Beans

Book:The Secret Life of Prince Charming

Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming

“It takes a person of great care and insight to watch for any abnormality in the green grass even while it grows abundantly and healthily.”

Persons Care Grows Watches Green Insight Grass Abnormality Green Grass

Author:Kenzaburo Oe

“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.”

Heart Spiritual Joy House Grows Space Rooms Sorrow Roots Green Shakes Yellow Rotten Pull Ups Pain And Sorrow Sufi Mystic Green Leaves Yellow Leaves

Author:Rumi

“Dirt's a funny thing,' the Boss said. 'Come to think of it, there ain't a thing but dirt on this green God's globe except what's under water, and that's dirt too. It's dirt makes the grass grow. A diamond ain't a thing in the world but a piece of dirt that got awful hot. And God-a-Mighty picked up a handful of dirt and blew on it and made you and me and George Washington and mankind blessed in faculty and apprehension. It all depends on what you do with the dirt. That right?”

Thinking World Made Said Grows Water Pieces Mankind Depends Hot Blessed Green Awful Grass Boss Faculty Diamond Globes Dirt Handful Funny Things Apprehension

Book:All the King's Men

Source: All the King's Men

“Black for hunting through the night For death and mourning the color's white Gold for a bride in her wedding gown And red to call the enchantment down White silk when our bodies burn Blue banners when the lost return Flame for the birth of a Nephilim And to wash away our sins. Gray for the knowledge best untold Bone for those who don't grow old Saffron lights the victory march Green to mend our broken hearts Silver for the demon towers And bronze to summon wicked powers -Shadowhunter children's rhyme”

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

“When I'm born I'm black, when I grow up I'm black, when I'm in the sun I'm black, when I'm sick I'm black, when I die I'm black, and you...when you're born you're pink, when you grow up you're white, when you're cold you're blue, when you're sick you're green, when you die you're grey and you dare call me coloured.”

Dies Grows Black Born White Sun Growing Up Cold Diversity Sick Blue Green Dare Call Me Grey

Author:Malcolm X

“Until the dead are buried they change somewhat in appearance each day. The color change in Caucasian races is from white to yellow, to yellow-green, to black. If left long enough in the heat the flesh comes to resemble coal-tar, especially where it has been broken or torn, and it has quite a visible tarlike iridescence. The dead grow larger each day until sometimes they become quite too big for their uniforms, filling these until they seem blown tight enough to burst. The individual members may increase in girth to an unbelievable extent and faces fill as taut and globular as balloons.”

Source: Death in the Afternoon

“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.”

House Names Grows Garden Green South Stealing France Beans Salad Carrots Strawberries Peppers Boars Green Beans

Author:Jean Dujardin

“The snow has left the cottage top; The thatch moss grows in brighter green; And eaves in quick succession drop, Where grinning icicles have been, Pit-patting with a pleasant noise In tubs set by the cottage door; While duck and geese, with happy joys, Plunge in the yard pond brimming over. The sun peeps through the window pane: Which children mark with laughing eye, And in the wet street steal again To tell each other spring is night.”

Source: The Shepherd's Calendar: With Village Stories and Other Poems

“Yet what each one does is by no means of little moment. The grass has to put forth all its energy to draw sustenance from the uttermost tips of its rootlets simply to grow where it is as grass; it does not vainly strive to become a banyan tree; and so the earth gains a lovely carpet of green.”

Source: The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany

“Green grass grows where dry desert ends.”

Ends Grows Green Desert Grass Dry Thrive Green Grass

Author:Og Mandino

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