Pearls Quotes · Page 4

Pearl Harbor was the defining event in my life. It shaped who I am, and all of my hang-ups and my drives,…

— David Suzuki

A pearl goes up for auction. No one has enough, so the pearl buys itself.

— Rumi

Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine.

— Desiderius Erasmus

You know, lieutenant, you wear your weapon the way other women wear pearls." "It's not a fashion accessory.

— Anonymous

That's what I love about music...all these banalities suddenly turn into these beautiful, effervescent pearls.

— Mark Ruffalo

When you've cooked the marrow of the sun and moon, The pearl is so bright you don't worry about poverty.

— Sun Bu'er

To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark…

— Victor Hugo

I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of…

— Oscar Wilde

Ethnic stereotypes are misshapen pearls, sometimes with a sandy grain of truth at their center. ... but they ignore complexity, change, and individuality.

— Anna Quindlen

The attitude of the American public toward the external projection of American power has been much more ambivalent. The public supported America's…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be…

— Joseph Addison

We used to be a serious country. When we got attacked at Pearl Harbor, we took on Imperial Japan, Fascist Italy and…

— Newt Gingrich

All women are pearls of great value, but some of us have been deceived into doubting the value of our purity. Pearls…

— Anas

Mike, the best band to ever come out of Seattle was, of course, Pearl Jam. And that's what I expect the Seahawks…

— Jon Gruden

You can rake the muck this way, rake the muck that way-- it will always be muck. Have I sinned or have…

— Martin Buber

I must be besotted,” he said evenly. “I have the imbecilic idea that you’re the prettiest girl I’ve ever seen. Except for…

— Loretta Chase

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes. Petals are bone…

— Maxine Hong Kingston

They fought on with a devotion which would puzzle the generation of the 1980s. More surprising, in many instances it would have…

— William Manchester

Henri Nouwen says, "When we come to realize that ... only God saves, then we are free to serve, then we can…

— Philip Yancey

In Shakespeare the birds sing, the bushes are clothed with green, hearts love, souls suffer, the cloud wanders, it is hot, it…

— Victor Hugo

I am an obscure and patient pearl-fisherman who dives into the deepest waters and comes up with empty hands and a blue…

— Gustave Flaubert

Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the…

— Francis Bacon

The intellectual quest is exquisite like pearls and coral, But it is not the same as the spiritual quest. The spiritual quest…

— Rumi

'I shall have heaven and earth for my coffin and its shell; the sun and moon for my two round symbols of…

— Zhuangzi

God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you, too.

— Rick Warren

Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Like the appearance of silver in mother of pearl, the world seems real until the Self, the underlying reality, is realized.

— Anonymous

The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.

— Virginia Woolf

“I'm pretty lost in becoming all this frost. Bitter, like Winter. Strung-out like a string of pearls.”

— Ashly Lorenzana

“Concentrate on the pearls, the information your audience needs to know.”

— Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic

But pearls are fair; and the old saying is: Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes.

— William Shakespeare

I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.

— Nate Ruess

Yet is there one true line, the pearl of pearls: Man dreams of Fame while woman wakes to love.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart, shows at the same time the pearls and the soul.

— Victor Hugo

People imagine I am always in a Bentley with pearls and diamonds and black glasses and Karl Lagerfeld next to me.

— Ines de La Fressange

I am the glorious sun, the ocean laden with pearls. Within my heart is the grandeur of heaven.

— Rumi

“True beauty is measured by the number of pearls within you, not those around your neck.”

— Suzy Kassem

The living carry us inside them like pearls. We survive only so long as they remember us.

— Kevin Brockmeier

Your body is sacred. You’re far more precious than diamonds and pearls, and you should be covered too.

— Muhammad Ali

Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange

— Percy Bysshe Shelley