“I heard you went to Ireland… I haven't seen it in many years. Is it still green then, and beautiful?

Wet as a bath sponge and mud to the knees but, aye, it was green enough.”

—  Diana Gabaldon , book The Scottish Prisoner

Source: The Scottish Prisoner

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "I heard you went to Ireland… I haven't seen it in many years. Is it still green then, and beautiful? Wet as a bath spo…" by Diana Gabaldon?
Diana Gabaldon photo
Diana Gabaldon 158
American author 1952

Related quotes

Arthur Rimbaud photo

“I have bathed in the Poem
Of the Sea…
Devouring the green azures.”

Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891) French Decadent and Symbolist poet

Je me suis baigné dans le Poème
De la Mer...
Dévorant les azurs verts.
St. 6
Le Bateau Ivre http://www.mag4.net/Rimbaud/poesies/Boat.html (The Drunken Boat) (1871)

“I say, if your knees aren’t green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist
Federico García Lorca photo

“Green, how I want you green.
Green wind. Green branches.
The ship out on the sea
and the horse on the mountain.”

Federico García Lorca (1898–1936) Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director

Verde que te quiero verde.
Verde viento. Verdes ramas.
El barco sobre la mar
y el caballo en la montaña.
" Romance Sonámbulo http://www.poesia-inter.net/index203.htm" from Primer Romancero Gitano (1928)

Pablo Neruda photo

“Green was the silence, wet was the light,
the month of June trembled like a butterfly.”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

Source: 100 Love Sonnets

William Blake photo

“When the voices of children are heard on the green
And laughing is heard on the hill,
My heart is at rest within my breast
And everything else is still.”

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

Nurse's Song, st. 1
1780s, Songs of Innocence (1789–1790)

Paul Gauguin photo

“How do you see this tree? Is it really green? Use green, then, the most beautiful green on your palette. And that shadow, rather blue? Don't be afraid to paint it as blue as possible.”

Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) French Post-Impressionist artist

Comment voyez-vous cet arbre? Il est bien vert? Mettez donc du vert, le plus beau vert de votre palette; — et cette ombre, plutôt bleue? Ne craignez pas la peindre aussi bleue que possible.
Quote from a conversation in 1888, Pont-Aven, with Paul Sérusier as cited by w:Maurice Denis, inL'influence de Paul Gauguin, in Occident (October 1903) and published in Du symbolisme au classicisme. Théories (1912), ed. Olivier Revault d'Allonnes (Paris, 1964), p. 51.
1870s - 1880s

Johnny Mercer photo

“Skylark,
Have you seen a valley green with Spring
Where my heart can go a-journeying,
Over the shadows in the rain
To a blossom covered lane?
And in your lonely flight,
Haven't you heard the music in the night,
Wonderful music,
Faint as a will-o-the-wisp,
Crazy as a loon,
Sad as a gypsy serenading the moon.”

Johnny Mercer (1909–1976) American lyricist, songwriter, singer and music professional

Song "Skylark" (1942)

Stephen King photo

“They were still all beautiful and there was still enchantment and wonder, but she had crossed a line and now the fairy tale was green with corruption and evil.”

Stephen King book Carrie

Source: Carrie

Peter Greenaway photo

“The predominant colour of the kitchen -- its walls, cupboards, floor, shelves -- with all the ancillary rooms -- pantries, larders, cold stores, and sculleries, is green -- Hooker's dark green, leaf-green, emerald, faded turquoise, and eau-de-nile -- like the colours of a dark wet jungle.”

Peter Greenaway (1942) British film director

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover

Donald J. Trump photo

“They haven't seen anything like what's coming at us in 25, 30 years. Maybe ever. It's tremendously big and tremendously wet. Tremendous amounts of water.”

Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America

2010s, 2018, September
Source: Trump Says Hurricane Florence Is 'Tremendously Big And Tremendously Wet' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqHwQhZC8jQ

Related topics