Purple Quotes

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

  Epictetus

  White, Long, Individuality

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

  Mae Jemison

  God, Color, Made

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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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• 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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• purple does something strange to me

  Charles Bukowski

  Doe, Strange

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• Yesterday and tomorrow cross and mix on the skyline. The two are lost in a purple haze. One forgets, one waits.

  Carl Sandburg

  Two, Yesterday, Waiting

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.253, 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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• Time is purple / Just before night.

  Mary O'Neill

  Time, Night, Night Time

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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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• 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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• 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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• Black is not as good as Purple.

  Ralph Lauren

  Fashion, Black

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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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• 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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• I always wanted to get the Purple Heart.

  Donald Trump

  Heart, Wanted, Purple Heart

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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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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• Purple as tulips in May, mauve into lush velvet, purple as the stain blackberries leave on the lips, on the hands, the purple of ripe grapes sunlit and warm as flesh.

  Marge Piercy

  Hands, Erotic, Velvet

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Colors Passing Through Us”, p.132, Knopf

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• Philosophy: a purple bullfinch in a lilac tree.

  T. S. Eliot

  Philosophy, Tree, Definitions

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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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• 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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• When I'm with Purple, I'm totally with Purple; when I'm doing my thing, I'm totally doing my own thing.

  Tommy Bolin

  My Own

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• Dreams are the subtle Dower
  That make us rich an Hour
  Then fling us poor
  Out of the purple door.

  Emily Dickinson

  Dream, Doors, Rich

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1656, Delphi Classics

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