Green Grow The Rushes

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 and/or rushes:

    “Annihilating all that’s made
    To a green thought in a green shade.”
    —Andrew Marvell (1621–1678)

    “The yuppie idea of the future ain’t my idea of a future. Your safe car, and home, and job, and all the time rushing between the three—let’s make people feel they can grow up and have some education, some interest in life! That’s what counts!”
    —Joe Strummer (b. 1952)

    “The one who rushes ahead hastily will probably fall behind.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    Mencius.