Green Cross

Green Cross may refer to:

  • Green Cross of Florida Flag, a flag with a green cross on a white ground flown at Fort San Carlos on Amelia Island in Florida by Gregor MacGregor, a Scottish-born soldier of fortune, who seized the island in June of 1817. The flag played a part in an historical episode called the Amelia Island Affair.
  • Green Cross (Japan), a Japanese pharmaceutical company
  • Green Cross Code, a traffic safety education program in the United Kingdom
  • Green Cross International, an environmental organization founded by Mikhail Gorbachev
  • The Green Cross is the logo for the National Safety Council in the United States
  • Green Cross flags are the industrial safety/health flags in Japan. They are not related to the Japanese pharmaceutical company
  • The Green Cross Code Man was played by David Prowse
  • Green Cross (chemical warfare), a group of World War I chemical warfare agents
  • C.D. Green Cross (1916–1985), a Chilean football (soccer) club currently defunct
  • Club Atlético Green Cross, an Ecuadorian football (soccer) club
  • A common symbol used in the medical marijuana community
  • Retail Pharmacies/Chemists in Europe and elsewhere may display a green cross

Famous quotes containing the words green and/or cross:

    “I have seen a green country, useful to the race,
    Knocked silly with guns and mines, its villages vanished,”
    —Edmund Blunden (1896–1974)

    “If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.”
    —Bible: New Testament, Mark 8:34,5.

    Jesus.