Return To Paradise Quotes

#1. Secretly, in studies and attics and schoolrooms all over America, people must be writing.

Sylvia Plath

#2. Pandora's Box could not be unopened, no one could return to Eden.

Selena Kitt

#3. Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise; it is because of impatience that they do not return.

Franz Kafka

#5. The rest of the morning would consist of checking on a pothole in the parking lot of the village clinic and writing up a schedule for the community centre that might finally settle the ongoing feud between the local quilting group and the bridge club.
It was good to be queen.

Molly Harper

#6. With This Time Lost, Comes Time To Spend.
To Spend On Love, Friends, Family, And Most Of All..
Time To Spend On Life.

Jesse Holdeman

#7. The only good thing about leaving Hawai'i is that you really appreciate it when you return.

John Richard Stephens

#8. On my return to Cornwall I discovered that I was living in a tropical paradise. For now I am content to explore my own home and our nearest neighbour France.

John Dyer

#9. So in love the heart surrenders itself entirely to the one being known how to touch it. That being is not selected but recognized and obeyed.

George Santayana

#10. A landing place is a famous thing, but it is only enjoyable for a time by any mortal who deserves one at all.

Thomas Hughes

#11. Should he remain in paradise and become a demon? Should he return to hell and become an angel?

Victor Hugo

#12. For dismissed by You from Paradise, and having taken my journey into a far country, I cannot by myself return, unless Thou meetest the wanderer: for my return has throughout the whole tract of this world's time waited for Your mercy.

Augustine Of Hippo

#13. You've climbed the highest mountain in the world. What's left ? It's all downhill from there. You've got to set your sights on something higher than Everest.

Willi Unsoeld

#14. Tell me about
your Italian journey
I am not ashamed
I wept in that country
beauty touched me
I was a child once more
in the womb of that country
I wept
I am not ashamed
I have tried to return to paradise

Tadeusz Rozewicz

#15. The audience, the place you're in, has everything to do with how your performance goes.

Kevin Spacey

#16. When you return to this mundane sphere from your visionary world, you would seem to leave a Neapolitan spring for a Lapland winter - to quit paradise for earth - heaven for hell! Taste the hashish, guest of mine - taste the hashish.

Alexandre Dumas

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

W. H. Auden

#18. I gave you my heart, but it wasn't enough.

Simone Elkeles

#19. Our notion of what makes a paradise always returns to the image of a beautiful and fruitful garden.

Jeff Cox

#20. Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

Mahatma Gandhi

#21. Certain types of decisions can be safely ignored. Some issues will go away with the passage of time, others will be so slow developing that the decision-makers will depart before the results of their neglect becomes manifest. Which brings us to the environment.

Jack McDevitt

#22. When I started out as a little kid, I didn't say 'I just want to run football.' I wanted to be a great athlete.

Herschel Walker

#23. Sin and death and suffering and war and poverty are not natural - they are the devastating results of our rebellion against God. We long for a return to Paradise - a perfect world, without the corruption of sin, where God walks with us and talks with us in the cool of the day.

Randy Alcorn

#24. My wish for the American woman is that she may always be an elevating influence-man's inspiration. Let him go forth to duty while she weaves the spell which makes home a paradise to which he may return, ever welcome, whether he is victor or vanquished.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#25. And when the Old Man wished to kill someone, he would take him and say: "Go and do this thing. I do this because I want to make you return to paradise." And the assassins go and perform the deed willingly.

Marco Polo

#26. Great minds work in similar directions.

Ruth Harris

#27. Let your heart become so saturated with love that you are able to ride the waves of change with equipoise, and find new meaning in everything that happens.

Gurumayi Chidvilasananda