Best 393 quotes in «paradise quotes» category

Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child.

Dogs are our link to paradise.

Dry your eyes O dry your eyes, For I was taught in Paradise To ease my breast of melodies.

Falling in love doesn't always lead to heartbreak, honey. With the right man, it can be a one-way ticket to paradise.

For an Italian peasant a telegram from anywhere is a wondrous thing; and a cable from the terrestrial paradise of America is not lightly to be disregarded.

Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.

From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.

God, in his infinite wisdom, hid Hell in he middle of Paradise, to keep us on our toes.

Here is an unspeakable secret: paradise is all around us and we do not understand.

He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.

He who has not been at a tavern knows not what a paradise it is. O holy tavern! O miraculous tavern! - holy, because no carking cares are there, nor weariness, nor pain; and miraculous, because of the spits, which themselves turn round and round!

I always loved fish for the colors and birds for the plumage. In the same way, I loved those women of the cabaret. They were birds of paradise.

Domestic happiness, thou only bliss Of paradise that has surviv'd the fall!

Germany is now a field of cadavers, soon she will be a paradise.

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

Happy! Who is happy? Was there not a serpent in Paradise itself? And if Eve had been perfectly happy beforehand, would she have listened to the tempter?

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.

He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.

I do know I'm going to heaven. I have read all of the Scriptures and the passages that define paradise and things like that. To me, what matters is I'm going to be with Jesus and I'm going to be in his presence. Every knee will bow and every tongue will confess. At that point, you know some to judgment, some to salvation.

How about your favorite book?" "This Side of Paradise by From. Scott Fitzgerald." "Why?" "Because it was the last one I read." This made them laugh because they knew I meant it honest, not show-off. Then they told me their favorites, and we sat quiet.

I entered the classroom with the conviction that it was crucial for me and every other student to be an active participant, not a passive consumer...education as the practice of freedom.... education that connects the will to know with the will to become. Learning is a place where paradise can be created.

I count it as a certainty that in paradise, everyone naps.

I don't put a penny's value on this life if only our Lord will give me a tiny corner in Paradise.

I found a piece of paradise to call my own, and life is worth living again, for to love you, to me, is to live.

If it was woman who put man out of Paradise, it is still woman, and woman only, who can lead him back.

If everybody lives by the sweat of his brow, the earth will become a paradise.

If you want physical peace, stop the struggle of life. Don't push the body beyond its fatigue point. Rest the body enough. Exercise it enough. Then let it be. ... If you want peace with others, don't fight them. Go your own way. Live your own life. If some walk with you, fine.

I grew up in Marin County north of San Francisco, and in the 1950s and '60s it was a natural paradise.

If you don't believe there's a price for this sweet paradise, just remind me to show you the scars.

If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise.

I'm a man. I lived it and I'm not afraid to die but when I die I'm going to paradise and I'm not worried.

I have desired to go Where springs not fail, To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail And a few lilies blow.

I'm goin' to take a little trip, down paradise's endless shores. They say that travel broadens the mind, till you can't get your head out of doors.

i have to cross the river of extreme awkwardness in order to get to the paradise on the other side.

I never started out to be an action actor. I was an ensemble actor. "Rocky" was an ensemble film. "F.I.S.T." was an ensemble. "Paradise Alley" was an ensemble.

In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.

I'm not sayin' she's a bragger, but if you've been to Paradise, she's got a season ticket.

In the Garden of Eden Eve showed more courage than Adam.. when the serpent offered the forbidden fruit. She knew that there was something better than paradise.

I really like 'This Side of Paradise' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I think it's a cool description of a character.

I still dwelled deep in my elected paradise--a paradise whose skies were the color of hell-flames--but still a paradise.

It is a paradox of Life that all species breed past mere replacement. Any paradise of plenty soon fills to become paradise no more.

Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.

It's a paradise that we are going to go into, because to be in the presence of God itself will be a paradise.

It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.

In the world of art, all things are possible.--George from Paradise Kiss

It's only a wonderful world if you can make it that way. There are no street signs pointing to Paradise Road.

I went to the Paradise Restaurant on 49th Street and Broadway which was where they were playing, and I sat in.

John Milton famously claimed, "Fame is the spur" for the poet, and indeed when we consider the six years he spent writing Paradise Lost, and the additional years revising it, from 1664 to 1674, we may allow that spur.

I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.

Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.