Lazuli Quotes

#1. In tombs of gold and lapis lazuli
Bodies of holy men and women exude
Miraculous oil, odour of violet.
But under heavy loads of trampled clay
Lie bodies of the vampires full of blood;
Their shrouds are bloody and their lips are wet
("Oil and Blood")

W.B.Yeats

#2. The snow light flared on brightness. Blue: intense as a midsummer sky, obtained from grinding precious lapis lazuli carried by camel caravan all the way from the mountains of Afghanistan.

Geraldine Brooks

#3. She sought his eyes once again. Eyes so perfect a blue they rivaled the most gorgeous lapis lazuli stone.

Grace Willows

#4. As they clean the walls with wet cloths and sponges, they uncover the earlier paints, most prevalent a stark blue that must have been inspired by Mary's blue robes. Renaissance painters could get that rare color only from ground lapis lazuli brought from quarries in what is now Afghanistan.

Frances Mayes

#5. I love blue more than any other color. I am inordinately attracted to any blue substance: to minerals like turquoise and lapis lazuli, to sapphires and aquamarines; to cobalt skies and blue-black seas; Moslem tiles - and to a blue flower whether or not it has any other merit.

Eleanor Perenyi

#6. Look for the copper tablet-box,
Undo its bronze lock,
Open the door to its secret,
Lift out the lapis lazuli tablet and read it,
The story of that man, Gilgamesh, who went through all kinds of sufferings.

Stephanie Dalley

#7. The lapis lazuli worry beads, draped over his rear view mirror, swung back and forth like the hips of Scheherazade, Mohammed's favorite belly dancer, who refused, in spite of the war, to leave Baghdad.

Leslie Cockburn

#8. We all have one idea of what the color blue is, but pressed to describe it specifically, there are so many ways: the ocean, lapis lazuli, the sky, someone's eyes. Our definitions are as different as we are ourselves.

Sarah Dessen

#9. Stones of protection; amethyst, emerald, turquoise, lapis lazuli, and a male ruby.

Diana Gabaldon

#10. that's a pretty big lie by omission

Carrie Jones

#11. I can't go back there. Back to a time when I had a weakness. When I lost control, and lost loved ones and territories in the process. The WUN still remains out of my hands. If I woke her now, what would I lose next?

Laura Thalassa

#12. For more than 13,000 days on the run, my life was a soap opera.

Ronald Biggs

#13. Success isn't just work, but finding the right balance between life and work.

Antonius Houston

#14. I refuse to leave our children with a debt that they cannot repay.

Barack Obama

#15. What the fuck is that?" Thomas asked. "Oh! It's Toto! I'm babysittin',

Jamie McGuire

#16. pushed from behind and that he heard an

Max Mason Hunter

#17. I don't want her to see the man I've become. I don't want to fall for her all over again. It took decades for the pain of her absence to dull.
Here my wife's safe. And so is my heart.

Laura Thalassa

#18. That's the way things are, don't you think? It's human nature. We do things for people we know. Everybody does that.

Alexander McCall Smith

#19. Today begins, tomorrow continues, and it never ends until you reach your goal.

Greg Plitt

#20. When you live without someone for as long as I have, love becomes this abstract concept, something you attach to a memory. And when memories are that old, they feel like dreams, and you wonder if any of it was real, or if your mind created it all.

Laura Thalassa

#21. What's an adventure? Nell said. The word was written across the page. Then both pages filled with moving pictures of glorious things: girls in armor fighting dragons with

Neal Stephenson

#22. My Heart's still beating for you - Very Dark and Always.

Rae Hachton

#23. My vicious Sleeping Beauty. This is our violent fairytale.

Laura Thalassa