Purple Quotes

• I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

  Alice Walker

  Inspiring, God, Religious

  Alice Walker (2012). “Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism”, p.29, Ballantine Books

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• Be different. Be original. Nobody will remember a specific flower in a garden filled with thousands of the same yellow flower, BUT they will remember the one that managed to change its color to purple.

  Suzy Kassem

  Flower, Garden, Color

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• Purple puts us in touch with the part of ourselves that is regal. Purple is the queen in all women; it helps us keep our backs straight and heads held high.

  Byllye Avery

  Queens, Helping, Regal

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• Seek to be the purple thread in the long white gown.

  Epictetus

  White, Long, Individuality

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• Twilight fell: The sky turned to a light, dusky purple littered with tiny silver stars.

  J. K. Rowling

  Stars, Twilight, Sunset

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• When God made the color purple, God was just showing off.

  Mae Jemison

  God, Color, Made

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• I was very against pink and purple when I was young, because they were girls' colors. But that was only because I didn't want people to write me off for what I can do. When I got into my 20s, I decided that was stupid.

  Danica Patrick

  Girl, Stupid, Writing

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• Purple haze all in my eyes, don't know if it's day or night. You got me blowin', blowin' my mind. Is it tomorrow or just the end of time?

  Jimi Hendrix

  Eye, Night, Insanity

  Song: Purple Haze

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• Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.

  Carl Sandburg

  Sunset, Fire, People

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.319, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

  Regina Brett

  Attitude, Waiting, Age

  Regina Brett (2010). “Life's Little Detours: 50 Lessons to Find and Hold onto Happiness”, p.56, Hachette UK

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• October arrives in a swirl of fragrant blue leaf smoke, the sweetness of slightly frosted MacIntosh apples, and little hard acorns falling. We are in the midst of cool crisp days, purple mists, and Nature recklessly tossing her whole palette of dazzling tones through fields and woodlands.

  Jean Hersey

  Fall, Blue, Apples

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• Philosophy: a purple bullfinch in a lilac tree.

  T. S. Eliot

  Philosophy, Tree, Definitions

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• Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

  Alice Walker

  Feminist, Lavender, Literature

  In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens epigraph (1983)

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• He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Knowledge, Belief, Emperor

  Many Inventions "The Finest Story in the World" (1893)

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• There is something in the autumn that is native to my blood-
  Touch of manner, hint of mood;
  And my heart is like a rhyme,
  With the yellow and the purple and the crimson keeping time.

  Bliss Carman

  Heart, Autumn, Blood

  Bliss Carman (1931). “Bliss Carman's Poems”, McClelland & Stewart

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• Violet is the most soothing, tranquilizing and cooling color vibration. It encourages the healing of unbalanced mental conditions in people who are overly nervous or high-strung. Foods of the violet vibration are: purple broccoli, beetroot and purple grapes.

  Tae Yun Kim

  Healing, Color, People

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• An enchanting harmony of fuchsia, purple and pink undertones, Radiant Orchid inspires confidence and emanates great joy, love and health. It is a captivating purple, one that draws you in with its beguiling charm.

  Leatrice Eiseman

  Orchids, Joy, Inspire

  "Pantone's Radiant Orchid is 2014's Color of the Year" by Eun Kyung Kim, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

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• I always wanted to get the Purple Heart.

  Donald Trump

  Heart, Wanted, Purple Heart

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• He Who is wrapped in purple robes,
  With planets in His care,
  Had pity on the least of things
  Asleep upon a chair.

  William Butler Yeats

  God, Care, Pity

  William Butler Yeats (2008). “COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• When I am an old woman I shall wear purple,
  With a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me,
  And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves,
  And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.

  Jenny Joseph

  Summer, July, Gloves

  "Warning" l. 1 (1965)

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• Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.

  Charles Dickens

  Rags, Doe, Virtue

  Charles Dickens (2009). “Speeches: Literary and Social: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.13, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The sky is already purple; the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across the edge of the world.

  Alice Hoffman

  Stars, Sky, World

  Alice Hoffman (1999). “Here on Earth”, p.76, Penguin Group

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• Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgandy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries.

  Jack Kerouac

  Sunset, Color, Long

  Jack Kerouac (1957). “On the Road”, Viking Press

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• Flower of this purple dye, Hit with Cupid's archery, Sink in apple of his eye.

  William Shakespeare

  Flower, Eye, Apples

  William Shakespeare (2005). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.36, Shakespeare Comic Books

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• O, beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties, Above the fruited plain.

  Katharine Lee Bates

  Beautiful, 4th Of July, Sky

  "America the Beautiful" (song) (1893)

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