Quotes About Idyllic

Moxham was strikingly beautiful, the sort of place that turns up in jigsaw puzzles or Harry Potter films.

Rolling country, not yet quite mountainous, with woods and lakes, is what I like best.

That idyllic shepherd of modern man is only a counterfeit, the totality of cultural illusions which he counts as nature.

A heaven on earth.

It was as pleasant as a dream of some idyllic past that had never truly been, but was nice to think of all the same.

Thalia The finest, funniest, friendliest Muse of all, THALIA supervised the comic arts and idyllic poetry. Her name derives from the Greek verb for 'to flourish'.fn5 Like her tragic counterpart Melpomene she sports actors' boots and a mask (hers being the cheerful smiling one of course), but she is wreathed in ivy and carries a bugle and a trumpet.

My parents moved to American Samoa when I was three or four years old. My dad was principal of a high school there. It was idyllic for a kid. I had a whole island for a backyard. I lived there until I was eight years old and we moved to Santa Barbara.

That night had been the beginning of an idyllic few months. They had already been friends. Now they were also deeply in love.

I had an idyllic childhood with the freedom to go and play.

We were brought up in a very happy family and I can't whinge about my childhood because it was idyllic.

You don't have to go very far away from Scandinavia to realize what an idyllic society it is.

The Forest of Arden, where I grew up, is where 'As You Like It' is set. It was idyllic.

I grew up in a little town between Bath and Bristol with my parents and grandparents in the same house. It was rural and idyllic.

I had a ridiculously idyllic childhood. I think back and am like, 'Wow. I was so naive, in the best way.'

Northern New Jersey looks like a cluster of idyllic suburbs, but each of those seemingly normal towns has a dark side that's constantly gossiped about but never publicly acknowledged. They seem to thrive on their strangenesses.

Stanford University is so startlingly paradisial, so fragrant and sunny, it's as if you could eat from the trees and live happily forever.

bal-cy-on (adjective). Calm, quiet, peaceful, undisturbed. I shan't look back upon these as halcyon days.

Indiana was so lovely. Just so lovely.

Food not only connects us at the idyllic dinner table setting with family and friends: it is also part of our mundane, daily transit to and from work.

Ireland was an idyllic place for us as children. We had all these cousins and all this green countryside. Given what I've written about rural Ireland, my memories of it are all blue skies and endless play.

All else in every direction was quiet, agreeable, timeless English countryside.

We're living as if we were in mourning for a lost paradise, he thought. As if we longed for the car thieves and safecrackers of the old days, who doffed their caps and behaved like gentlemen when we came to take them in. But those days have irretrievably vanished, and it's questionable whether they were ever as idyllic as we remember them.

Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs.

Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.