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.
Daniel Boone

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

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.
Max Muller

The heart of man is, so to speak, the paradise of God.
Alphonsus Liguori

The Indians knew that life was equated with the earth and its resources, that America was a paradise, and they could not comprehend why the intruders from the East were determined to destroy all that was Indian as well as America itself.
Dee Brown

The myths have always condemned those who "looked back." Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.
Dag Hammarskjold

The only paradise is paradise lost.
Marcel Proust

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

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.
Erma Bombeck

Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
Karl Popper

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.
Adolf Hitler

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

To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in.
Charles Godfrey Leland

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none.
Doug Larson

Vampires are sexy to a woman perhaps because the fantasy is similar to that of the man on the white horse sweeping her off to paradise.
Frank Langella

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

We lived on the Key West Army Base. Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.
Gloria Swanson

We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.
Simone Weil

We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through.
Arthur Boyd

When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.
Lawrence Lessig