Paradise Quotes
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Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise.
John Ralston Saul
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Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women. It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it.
Oscar Wilde
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Without love and kindness life is cold, selfish and uninteresting and leads to distaste for everything. With kindness, the difficult becomes easy, the obscure clear; life assumes a charm and it's miseries are softened. If we knew the power of kindness. we should transform the world into a paradise.
Charles Wagner
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But veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
George Eliot
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The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our endeavour to build an earthly paradise for people.
Alvar Aalto
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I was brought up on a farm in Southwest France, eating farm-fresh produce three times a day. It was paradise on Earth, and it shaped my eating habits and my sense of taste.
Alain Ducasse
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Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.
Francis Bacon
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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.
Christian Louboutin
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Adam was placed in Paradise in perfect estate, and in the company of God's angels; God walked and did talk with him. He heard the voice, and beheld the presence of God.
John Jewel
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O fleeting joys Of Paradise, dear bought with lasting woes!
John Milton
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Who are we to wish for Paradise? It will be enough if Allah spares us his wrath.
Abu Hanifa
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From the paradise, that Cantor created for us, no-one can expel us.
David Hilbert
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I'm not really a tropical paradise kind of person.
Matthew Fox
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Pass in, pass in, the angels say, In to the upper doors; Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to Paradise By the stairway of surprise.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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A thankful person is thankful under all circumstances. A complaining soul complains even in paradise.
Bahá'u'lláh
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At least settle for a paradise in a hut If someone occupied the tower with the palace
Vladimir Vysotsky
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Here is an amazement –– once I was twenty years old and in every motion of my body there was a delicious ease, and in every motion of the green earth there was a hint of paradise, and now I am sixty years old, and it is the same.
Mary Oliver
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I don't know if paradise or hell exist, but I'm sure hell is more groovy.
Anita Ekberg
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The House of Lords must go - not be reformed, not be replaced, not be reborn in some nominated life-after-death patronage paradise, just closed down, abolished, finished.
Neil Kinnock
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'Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is.
Samuel Johnson
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You'd be so nice, You'd be paradise To come home to and love.
Cole Porter
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I still dwelled deep in my elected paradise--a paradise whose skies were the color of hell-flames--but still a paradise.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Our first and true home was Paradise: a land that is both perfect and eternal. So the yearning for that type of life is a part of our being. The problem is that we try to find that here. And so we create ageless creams and cosmetic surgery in a desperate attempt to hold on-in an attempt to mold this world into what it is not, and will never be.
Yasmin Mogahed