Green Belt Quotes

#1. The women of the Green Belt Movement have learned about the causes and the symptoms of environmental degradation. They have begun to appreciate that they, rather than their government, ought to be the custodians of the environment.

Wangari Maathai

#2. Only a shallow mind would be puzzled by the fact that Original Sin appears to be distributed so much more noticeably among the deprived ... than among merchant bankers living in Surrey's green belt.

William Donaldson

#3. Destroying green belt agricultural land for immediate economic gain is like burning your children's inheritance to cook a single meal

Phil Harding

#4. Those living in rural areas as well as those with a planning policy remit for those areas have an important responsibility to protect green belt agricultural land for the wider benefit of feeding the UK into the uncertain future that we all face

Phil Harding

#5. My karate skills are very limited. I'm a green belt.

Molly Quinn

#6. I took three years of karate because of Bruce Lee, you know. I was a green belt.

Marjane Satrapi

#7. From the green belt balcony, the wildfires look so pretty
Ponderosa canopy, I'd never leave if it were up to me
To the ruby redwood tree, and to the velvet climbing ivy painted all mahogany
I'd never leave if it were up to me

Owl City

#8. The Green Belt is a Labour achievement - and we mean to build on it.

John Prescott

#9. It gradually became clear that the Green Belt Movement's work with communities to repair the degraded environment could not be done effectively without participants embracing a set of core spiritual values.

Wangari Maathai

#10. Do not allow yourself to be misled by the surfaces of things

Rainer Maria Rilke

#11. I've got to get my real skills up; like, I got to get my skills up, 'cause in case of a crazy catastrophe, I might have to learn how to swim.

Theophilus London

#12. We are all One and others are simply reflections of ourselves. When the mirror is cleared, the reflection becomes clean too.

Human Angels

#13. Wine gives a man nothing ... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

Samuel Johnson

#14. Augustus Waters drove horrifically. Whether stopping or starting, everything happened with a tremendous JOLT. I flew against the seat belt of his Toyota SUV

John Green

#15. With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this.'

David Ives

#16. Use karate, judo, aikido, or any style to build your counter-offensive. It will be interesting!

Bruce Lee

#17. In my next lifetime, I want to come back as a composer.

Bob Fosse

#18. To begin your commitment to new perceptions, start by paying attention to attack thoughts toward yourself and others.

Gabrielle Bernstein

#19. Only thing that makes us fail in all moments, expectations.

Yogeshwaran Selvaraju

#20. There's a kind of knowledge that stows away in our subconscious. We don't notice it because it's practiced at staying concealed as it travels along with us. A knowledge that must stay hidden because it would destroy us.

Hansjorg Schertenleib

#21. A secret's safest hiding place is in the open.

Jill Alexander Essbaum

#22. Good science is done by being curious in general, by asking questions all around, by acknowledging the likelihood of being wrong and taking this in good humor for granted, by having a deep fondness for nature, and by being made jumpy and nervous by ignorance.

Lewis Thomas

#23. As much as they were right for each other, time wasn't right for them.

Parul Wadhwa

#24. I will forget what you said, but I will never forget how lively, joyful and grateful you made me feel.

Debasish Mridha