Green Grow the Rushes may refer to:
- Green Grow the Rushes, O, a folksong
- Green Grow the Rushes, a 1949 novel by Howard Clewes
- Green Grow the Rushes, a 1951 movie based on Clewes's novel
- Green Grow The Rushes, a song off the 1985 R.E.M. album, Fables of the Reconstruction
Famous quotes containing the words green grow the, green, grow and/or rushes:
“Green grow the rashes, O;
Green grow the rashes, O;
The sweetest hours that e’er I spend,
Are spent amang the lasses, O.”
—Robert Burns (1759–1796)
“And a man of tan engages
For the springtime of her pride,
Eats the green by easy stages,
Nibbles at the root beneath
With intimidating teeth.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“What large children we are
here. All over I grow most tall
in the best ward. Your business is people,
you call at the madhouse, an oracular
eye in our nest.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“There are some women ... in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else. Love is scarcely felt before duty rushes to encase it, anger impossible because one must always be calm and see both sides, pity evaporates in expedients, even grief is felt as a sort of bruised sense of injury, a resentment that one should have grief forced upon one when one has always acted for the best.”
—Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893–1978)