Pearl In The Sand Quotes

#1. Little girls grow up thinking that knights in shining armor actually exist. But they don't. And if those valiant heroes ever did bless this world with their chivalrous deeds, I imagine, just like Christ's apostles, they were destroyed by envy on the battlefront.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#2. My role in life is that of the grain of sand to the oyster-it irritates the oyster and out comes a pearl.

Ross Perot

#3. You're nothing but an intruder. A germ. A piece of sand agitating my oyster. But you're not a pearl; you're a tumor or a wart or a cyst.

Ainslie Hogarth

#4. And the one here in my hand isn't brown and shiny like the rest. It is flat and sleepy like the sand, which through my fingers I set rolling. Slowly, step by step, as if unwilling I let my feet wander on, ahead. (September 24, 1939) p. 7

Pearl Fichman

#5. If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl.

Peter Sarsgaard

#6. Somehow, the road rises up to meet you Patch, when you are ready.

Michele Jennae

#7. I was in Afghanistan for a while. Sand is overrated if there isn't a beach there to accompany it. I've probably still got sand in places I don't care to mention." "Maybe one day you'll find a pearl in your shorts," Joe said, grinning a gap-toothed grin.

Liliana Hart

#8. Even a grain of sand united with an oyster can make a pearl.

Truth Devour

#9. Like a grain of sand that gets into an oyster's shell. What if the grain doesn't want to become a pearl? Is it ever asked to climb out quietly and take up its old position as a bit of ocean floor?

Robin McKinley

#10. Doubt is a powerful tool. Doubt challenges my beliefs and breaks the spell of all the lies and superstitions that control my world. I use doubt to recover faith in myself, to take my power back from every superstition I believe in, and return that power to myself.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#11. Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.

Zara Phillips

#12. I mean, it didn't matter to me that there were people, it didn't matter that I was shy Just the sound was so captivating that it helped me to get rid of those inhibitions.

Eric Clapton

#13. I wasn't in the mood for a fight, but fights weren't always conveniently scheduled. (Jessica)

Shannon A. Thompson

#14. From a grain of sand in the Pearl comes.

Confucius

#15. Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor.

Truman Capote

#16. When God knows you're ready for the responsibility of commitment, He'll reveal the right person under the right circumstances.

Joshua Harris

#17. There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character ... Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl.

Jodi Picoult

#18. You see, the world is as big as an elephant or small as a grain of sand, depending on you. You can let it stomp you, gore you, swallow you up. Or you can let it slip into your shell and turn into a pearl." -- Benjamin East

Jonathan Freedman

#19. It is a remarkable question- Do all the wonderful things happen when we are not aware of them?

Jodi Picoult

#20. Usually, if you think something's wrong, it probably is ...

Jayce O'Neal

#21. She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.

William Shakespeare

#22. He's worked his entire life and he's never lived a single moment, I mean not a moment, in the real world.

Katharine Hepburn

#23. Concentration can be cultivated. One can learn to exercise will power, discipline one's body and train one's mind.

Anil Ambani

#24. If you want to unleash more creativity in your company, you need to allow for a little contamination. It is the sand in the oyster that creates the pearl.

Fred Wilson

#25. I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed.

Walter Payton

#26. Goodbye Darcy, goodbye Jean, goodbye stone cottage, scratchy towels, fields of wildflowers; good bye gorgeous Peak District ... OK English People, for your own good, get off the roads, here we come!

Susan Branch

#27. There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

Pierre Dos Utt

#28. Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best
work came out of it.

Joni Mitchell