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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I always wanted to get the Purple Heart.

  Donald Trump

  Heart, Wanted, Purple Heart

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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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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• 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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• The lands are lit with all the autumn blaze of golden-rod, and everywhere the purple asters nod and bend and wave and flit.

  Helen Hunt

  Autumn, Land, Golden

  H.H. (Helen Hunt) (1887). “Helen Jackson's Poems”

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• Men with purple hearts carry silver guns and they will kill a man for what his father has done. But what my father did, I don't live it: no, I am not him.

  Conor Oberst

  Life, Father, War

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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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• 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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• 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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• I like playing for the purple and gold. This is where I want to finish up.

  Kobe Bryant

  Gold, Want

  "Kobe Bryant Q&A: Laker for life?". Interview with Marc J. Spears, www.yahoo.com. December 19, 2011.

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• Everything wanna be loved. Us sing and dance, and holla just wanting to be loved.

  Alice Walker

  Trying, Want

  "Fictional character: Shug Avery". "The Color Purple", www.imdb.com. December 16, 1985.

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• This is the fairest picture on our planet, the most enchanting to look upon, the most satisfying to the eye and spirit. To see the sun sink down, drowned in his pink and purple and golden floods, and overwhelm Florence with tides of color that make all the sharp lines dim and faint and turn the solid city to a city of dreams, is a sight to stir the coldest nature, and make a sympathetic one drunk with ecstasy.

  Mark Twain

  Dream, Nature, Eye

  Mark Twain (2012). “Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader’s Edition”, p.76, Univ of California Press

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• The Color Purple really floored me. That book was just incredible because I loved the language. The biggest deal of that book was that I loved the poetry of broken English. Broken English and vernacular. It just floored me that you can actually capture the way people really talked. And I also really connected to the social class element.

  Matt de la Pena

  Book, Color, Class

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I would like better colouration of my legs, like a little less of that English mottled purple thing that makes it necessary to wear tights all the time.

  Lily Cole

  Tights, Legs, Littles

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