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Quotes About Idyllic

We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams of getting married and having a family, living in the country, leading an idyllic life.
~ David Amram
I was one of the many kids in Northern Ireland who grew up in the countryside and had an idyllic childhood well away from the Troubles.
~ James Nesbitt
they should learn to love Him in the wilderness and that they should always look back upon the time in the desert as the idyllic time of their life with Him alone.
~ Thomas Merton
All gods feed on suffering. Without it, there are no prayers or offerings. Mankind is selfish. They give only when they have to. If this world was idyllic and life was just, what need would there be for gods?
~ Ilona Andrews
The ma'avir gave me a condescending smile. "All gods feed on suffering. Without it, there are no prayers or offerings. Mankind is selfish. They give only when they have to. If this world was idyllic and life was just, what need would there be for gods?
~ Ilona Andrews
A heaven on earth.
~ John Milton
And a beautiful garden, not far from a beautiful lake, and I said it sounded perfectly perfect.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
call me hopelessly paranoid, but this whole place was starting to seem creepily idyllic. Like, my bedroom was charming. Charming! What did I know about charming? I'd never called anything charming before in my life.
~ James Patterson
I think the concept of seeking fame and fortune in women's football in the States is a bit idyllic.
~ Hope Solo
Oh, it's a snug little island!A right little, tight little island.
~ Thomas John Dibdin
you can use positive constraints to increase perceived free will and results. Freeform days might seem idyllic, but they are paralyzing due to continual paradox of choice (e.g., "What should I do now?") and decision fatigue (e.g., "What should I have for breakfast?"). In
~ Timothy Ferriss
The prolific Chinodya has written a number of striking books, most notably 'Dew in the Morning', an exploration of an idyllic rural boyhood; the sophisticated 'Strife,' in which sins from the pre-colonial past cast shadows into the present; and the rich and varied short-story collection 'Can We Talk?'
~ Petina Gappah
It was a lovely landscape. It was idyllic, poetical, and it inspired me. I felt good and noble. I felt I didn't want to be sinful and wicked anymore. I would come and live here, and never do any more wrong, and lead a blameless, beautiful life, and have silver hair when I got old, and all that sort of thing.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
This summer has been idyllic … more than that, it's the unification of this group of formerly lost souls. It's been a syrupy lovefest for the past three months, and I wish it could last forever. I think about that stupid fucking saying, Absence makes the heart grow fonder , and I want to barf. I'm already beyond fond of everyone, so I'm all set.
~ Jessica Park
I grew up in a Southside suburb of Chicago. It was idyllic. But I was plunked into a family that was not artistic and didn't know how to deal with my emotions.
~ Jane Lynch
I grew up in Ditchling. It was an idyllic village at the foot of the South Downs. In those days, the village was full of artists and sculptors.
~ Donald Sinden
South India has beautiful villages.
~ Yami Gautam
The river, tonally, does not recede, presenting the same lifeless grey near and far, a depthless plane upon which Schmitt's dragging oars inscribe parallel lines and Eakins' oars, rising and falling, leave methodically spaced patches of disturbed water. The canvas is haunting - en evocation of the democracy's idyllic, isolating spaciousness, present even in the midst of a great Eastern city.
~ John Updike
An idyllic childhood is probably illusion.
~ Martha Grimes
Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
was off yanking innocent fish out of an idyllic existence in some lake
~ Unknown
You can tell the idyllic nature of a family by the upkeep of its picnic table. Ours is its own indictment. We are splintering and peeling. We rot.
~ Peter Hedges