Paradise Quotes

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

But for Muslims, everything that they don't have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.

Children are the keys of paradise.

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible.

When you arrive in England for football it's a paradise.

The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?

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

When people come to Jamaica, we don't want them to think about the problems of Jamaica. So let them come be in their paradise.

We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise.

The Gulf Coast has the potential to create a culinary raw ingredient paradise that smart cooks can capitalize on.

To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.

An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.

I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

Paradise is too perfect for humanity.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.

Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.

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.

I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.

England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses.

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves?

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.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

Ruby in Paradise and the intensity and quality that I was able to experience on Smoke were equally as important to me as working on this movie every day for three-and-a-half months.