Green quotes
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"Twitter is a form of free speech, and I'm all for that. But if Cee Lo Green, a maverick of sorts, can't get on Twitter and say something outlandish or outrageous, then what is the whole point of Twitter at all?"
"Lord, keep my memory green."
"Tom Ridge announced a new color-coded alarm system. ... Green means everything's okay. Red means we're in extreme danger. And champagne-fuschia means we're being attacked by Martha Stewart."
"In a more universal sense, we only get one thing. You know...a head stone if we're lucky; if not, green grass."
"I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after."
"As a Green, my goal is to put a smile on the face of the coming generations."
"I went to see John Mayall at the Marquee, with Peter Green on guitar, and that was a particularly good gig."
"Someone is dead. Even the trees know it, those poor old dancers who come on lewdly, all pea-green scarfs and spine pole."
"No matter where I go or how I change, I'll always be your Anne. Anne of Green Gables."
"Call in the Caped Crusader, Green Hornet, Kato, too. I'm in so much trouble I don't know what to do."
"A hedge between keeps friendship green."
"The wrong of unshapely things is a wrong too great to be told; I hunger to build them anew and sit on a green knoll apart."
"The only colour I see is this wonderful green and blue planet."
"Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it's a green light."
"When you're 25 or 30, you know, you can't wear lime-green eye shadow anymore."
"I want to change the color of Starbucks from green to red. Whose job was it to say, This is going to be green? I want that to be my job."
"The traditional dress of the Australian cricketer is the baggy green cap on the head and the chip on the shoulder. Both are ritualistically assumed"
"Insects were scurrying about in the shade cast by the grass, and the lawn was a huge monotonous forest of thousands of little green blades, all equal, all alike, hiding the world from each other. Anguished, she thought, "I don't want to be just another blade of grass.""
"We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long."
"Research is a scientific activity dedicated to discovering what makes grass green."
