Scent Quotes

Diane Ackerman

• Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.
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Diane Ackerman

• Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years.
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Shmuel Y. Agnon

• If we breathe the scent of goodly grass, the fragrance of spices, the aroma of good fruits, we pronounce a blessing over the pleasure.
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Marc Bloch

• The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.
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Robert Bridges

• I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.
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Barbara Bush

• Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.
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Barry Goldwater

• If you don't mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.
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Arne Jacobsen

• I've never really cared much for roses; there's something flashy and assertive about modern roses, and I think it's a pity that they have no scent.
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Samuel Johnson

• No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
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Doug Larson

• Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.
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David Leavitt

• Childhood smells of perfume and brownies.
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Sean O'Casey

• The old - like children - talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own.
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Red Smith

• I like to get where the cabbage is cooking and catch the scents.
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Koo Stark

• Real beauty is created when you are feeling good inside, whether that means being healthy, feeling confident or just wearing your favorite scent.
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Nathaniel Parker Willis

• It is the month of June, The month of leaves and roses, When pleasant sights salute the eyes And pleasant scents the noses.
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Bible (New International Version)

• Job 14: 8-9
  Its roots may grow old in the ground and its stump die in the soil, yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth shoots like a plant.
• Job 39: 25
  At the blast of the trumpet it snorts, ‘Aha!’ It catches the scent of battle from afar, the shout of commanders and the battle cry.

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