Top 40 Adorning Quotes

#1. Gerdanlouk, he thinks. An evocative Turkish word, with Arabic roots. It means jewelry, but only jewelry adorning a woman between her lower neck and the top of her breasts. Gerdanlouk. He looks away.

Jenny White

Adorning Quotes #30443
#2. An eye-jangling assortment of spurious clan tartans, adorning every conceivable object made of fabric, from caps, neckties, and serviettes down to a particularly horrid yellow "Buchanan" sett used to make men's nylon Y-front underpants.

Diana Gabaldon

Adorning Quotes #41602
#3. Brightest and best of the sons of the morning,
Dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid.
Star of the east the horizon adorning,
Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.

Reginald Heber

Adorning Quotes #136663
#4. To slaughter grand and beautiful creatures like these tuskers, whether terrestrial or marine, solely to obtain a few teeth indicates that we have not evolved very much since the days our forebears lived in caves and saught to prove their superiority by adorning themselves with teeth and claws

Paul Watson

Adorning Quotes #145159
#5. O rose! the sweetest blossom,
Of spring the fairest flower,
O rose! the joy of heaven.
The god of love, with roses
His yellow locks adorning,
Dances with the hours and graces.

James Gates Percival

Adorning Quotes #183815
#6. What is commonest and cheapest and nearest and easiest is Me, Me going in for my chances, spending for vast returns, Adorning myself to bestow myself on the first that will take me, Not asking the sky to come down to my goodwill, Scattering if freely forever.

Walt Whitman

Adorning Quotes #198280
#7. As they walked, it seemed almost every building had some similar contrivance as decoration, adorning the street in a cacophony of clangs, bangs and whirs. The street's surroundings danced with steam and smoke, the scent of oil and grease its perfume.

A.F. Stewart

Adorning Quotes #218456
#8. The feminist call was for women to embrace ways of seeing beauty and adorning ourselves that are healthy, life-affirming, and not overly time-time consuming.

Bell Hooks

Adorning Quotes #271754
#9. I love how significant jewelry is throughout the world and throughout time. People have been adorning themselves with jewelry for years and its one of the oldest forms of art and design. This is something that has and will always inspire me.

Pamela Love

Adorning Quotes #313454
#10. The soul should take care of the body, just as the pilgrim on his way to Makkah takes care of his camel; but if the pilgrim spends his whole time in feeding and adorning his camel, the caravan will leave him behind, and he will perish in the desert.

Al-Ghazali

Adorning Quotes #347129
#11. It is right to love beauty and to desire it; but God desires us to love and seek first the highest beauty, that which is imperishable. No outward adorning can compare in value or loveliness with that "meek and quiet spirit."

Ellen G. White

Adorning Quotes #464718
#12. There is nothing quite so beautiful as the written word -worn as a jewel, adorning the segmented lines of papyrus".

Gerald Mills

Adorning Quotes #532573
#13. Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning.

Anne Spencer

Adorning Quotes #646750
#14. The immense importance of "adorning the doctrine of God our Saviour" (Titus ii. 10), and making it lovely and beautiful by our daily habits and tempers, has been far too much overlooked.

J.C. Ryle

Adorning Quotes #668043
#15. There is no doubt that someone who tries to throw a curve or pitch at any early age before he's developed, before his hand is big enough to grip the ball correctly, will damage his arm.

Robin Roberts

Adorning Quotes #690704
#16. as his husband massaged his tongue over the ridges adorning his desire.

Liz Borino

Adorning Quotes #746894
#17. O, Life! how pleasant is thy morning,
Young Fancy's rays the hills adorning!
Cold pausing Caution's lesson scorning,
We frisk away,
Like schoolboys, at the expected warning,
To joy and play.

Robert Burns

Adorning Quotes #746913
#18. You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe
or she will call you ungrateful.

Martial

Adorning Quotes #767314
#19. The devil doesn't really have any new schemes, ideas, or initiatives. He keeps on recycling and reusing the same old temptations, adorning them in different attires.

Pedro Okoro

Adorning Quotes #776790
#20. Even a scientist is a human being, and it is quite natural that he, like others, hates the things he cannot explain and thus falls victim to the common illusion that what we know today represents the highest summit of knowledge.

C. G. Jung

Adorning Quotes #795116
#21. I do not lift my voice against the great and glorious Government guaranteed to every citizen by the Constitution, but against those corrupt administrators who trample the Constitution and just laws under their feet.

Brigham Young

Adorning Quotes #860882
#22. I kind of like the idea of adorning women in crowns and jewels. Call me sexist, but I think the fair sex should be worshiped. - Seth to Georgina

Richelle Mead

Adorning Quotes #893396
#23. The year's in wane; There is nothing adorning; The night has no eve, And the day has no morning; Cold winter gives warning!

Thomas Hood

Adorning Quotes #905473
#24. Everyone falls sometimes, son, even me, but the trick is to get right back up. They'll always target the ones who appear vulnerable, so you need to be strong. Fake it until you make it.

J.M. Darhower

Adorning Quotes #922389
#25. It is not your outward appearance that you should beautify, but your soul, adorning it with good works.

Clement Of Alexandria

Adorning Quotes #945202
#26. What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning.

Robert Burton

Adorning Quotes #1115499
#27. Words: repositories for singular realities which they then transform into memories in an anthology, magicians that change the face of reality by adorning it with the right to become memorable, to be placed in a library of memories.

Muriel Barbery

Adorning Quotes #1223532
#28. Say: o brethren! Let deeds, not words, be your adorning.

Baha'u'llah

Adorning Quotes #1291554
#29. Was he an animal that music so captivated him?

Franz Kafka

Adorning Quotes #1298939
#30. Love like a phantoms lights but hold in the heart, it builds like the empty smile adorning a statue with sightless eyes.

Dan Fogelberg

Adorning Quotes #1327741
#31. In art, there is no need for color; I see only light and shade. Give me a crayon, and I will paint your portrait.

Francisco Goya

Adorning Quotes #1349484
#32. Dearer to me than the evening star A Packard car A Hershey bar Or a bride in her rich adorning Dearer than any of these by far Is to lie in bed in the morning

Jean Kerr

Adorning Quotes #1393878
#33. Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy-five and yet not ever truly to have lived.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Adorning Quotes #1396546
#34. Drinking from the beautiful chalice of knowledge is better than adorning oneself with gold and rare gems.

Eugene H. Peterson

Adorning Quotes #1429223
#35. What is commonest, cheapest, nearest, easiest, is Me,
Me going in for my chances, spending for vast returns,
Adorning myself to bestow myself on the first that will take
me,
Not asking the sky to come down to my good will,
Scattering it freely forever.

Walt Whitman

Adorning Quotes #1509394
#36. Any statement or claim that contradicts reason and valid experience cannot be upheld. Therefore, as Buddhists, we must discard any tenet that may contradict reason and valid experience.

Dalai Lama XIV

Adorning Quotes #1526943
#37. For a moment man is a boy, for a moment a lovesick youth, for a moment bereft of wealth, for a moment in the height of prosperity; then at life's end with limbs worn out by old age and wrinkles adorning his face, like an actor he retires behind the curtain of death.

Bhartrhari

Adorning Quotes #1555788
#38. I must have encountered the Duke somewhere on the road because I was carrying a sack with me and his head was in it.

Sebastien De Castell

Adorning Quotes #1615373
#39. Crashing could not be more inconsiderate to a host. It is a negative act because hosts likely have a particular plan for the event, an intention to move guests' attitudes in a certain direction.

Letitia Baldrige

Adorning Quotes #1757173
#40. I see myself as a storyteller. So, when I read something, I see the story, and I see it on screen, in my head, in a certain way. I always want to see it and see me in it.

Samuel L. Jackson

Adorning Quotes #1807914

Famous Authors

Popular Topics

Scroll to Top