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Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Color, Prime, Loveliness

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, 'At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.'
Claude Pepper

I won't eat anything green.
Kurt Cobain

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
Thomas Merton

Music, Nature, God

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

Another, Loved, Individual

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.
Martin Luther

Nature, True, Made

There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.
Vince Lombardi

Time, Game, Place

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

Nature, Eyes, Joy

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

Wise, Person, Light

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
Francis Bacon

Revenge, Wounds, Keeps

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life, Friend, Tree

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
Ernest Hemingway

Great, Game, Lose

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.
Thomas Sowell

Cannot, Else, Color

For those who have come here illegally, they might have a transition time to allow them to set their affairs in order. And then go back home and get in line with everybody else. And if they get in line and they apply to become a citizen and get a green card, they will be treated like everybody else.
Mitt Romney

Time, Home, Become

Staple a green card to their diploma - welcome to the United States of America! We want those people in our country.
Mitt Romney

Country, America, United

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
Thomas Carlyle

Work, Good, Done

When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.
Lord Byron

Laugh, Joy, Voice

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

Life, Good, Grow

A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.
Doug Coupland

Good, Smile, Forget

Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.
H. P. Lovecraft

Black, Silent, Ocean

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
Ansel Adams

Sunrise, Space, Wonder

Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn't eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Seuss inspired me to try cauliflower!
Jim Carrey

Life, Try, Inspired

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
Francis Bacon

Revenge, Wounds, Heal

The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Future, Energy, Renewable

If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
Bill Watterson

Life, End, Seriously

There doesn't seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
E. O. Wilson

Revolution, Next, Seem

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Down, Stay, Cleverness

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.
George Santayana

Age, Old, Pride

Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress, and you find that you're the one in the green dress.
Lois Wyse

Age, Someone, Woman

I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.
Ella Maillart

Live, Understand, Before

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