Quotes About Crown Jewels

#1. When I was a child, the FA Cup was one of the crown jewels of the sporting year, along with the Grand National, Wimbledon and The Open. But with every announcement it seems to lose another piece of its identity. First it was sponsors added to the name, followed by the semi-finals at Wembley.

Gary Neville

#2. Remember, I was only in to fighting; I wasn't a high-ranking underworld figure selling the Crown Jewels! I wasn't the Merthyr Mafia and I had no connections with the goings on of petty criminal matters.

Stephen Richards

#3. Holy crap," I said. While staring off at Rose and Dimitri, a brilliant flash had caught my eye - a flash on Rose's finger.
"What's that?" I exclaimed. "Did you rob Lissa's crown jewels?

Richelle Mead

#4. I've always found it strange that a director can hire any designer he wants from any country. But if he hires a foreign actor, it's like he's stolen the crown jewels and run across the river with them.

Kevin Spacey

#5. Product procedure ... must securely protect the crown jewels, but, equally important, it must eschew building high fences around the garbage cans.

Fred Brooks

#6. More than the diamond Koh-i-noor, which glitters among their crown jewels, they prize the dull pebble which is wiser than a man, whose poles turn themselves to the poles of the world, and whose axis is parallel to the axis of the world. Now, their toys are steam and galvanism.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7. I was in a band in Auckland, and I remember they all hated me. They had a big intervention. They said, basically, 'Gin, we think you suck.' I was miserable. I cried and cried. But looking back, that taught me about social skills and how to communicate with musicians.

Gin Wigmore

#8. To work our way towards a shared language once again, we must first learn how to discover patterns which are deep, and capable of generating life.

Christopher Alexander

#9. Every time I catch myself saying, "Oh no, you shouldn't try that," I think, "Yes, I should."

Erica Jong

#10. The highest honor that God can confer upon his children is the blood-red crown of martyrdom. The jewels of a Christian are his afflictions. The regalia of the kings that God has made, are their troubles, their sorrows, and their griefs. Griefs exalt us, and troubles lift us.

Charles Spurgeon

#11. Maybe there's some unquenchable question that I keep asking the universe that I can't get an answer to.

Wayne Coyne

#12. Human consciousness at present is a sort of battlefield. And you know what Tolstoy tells us about battles in War and Peace. Nobody really knows what is going on during a battle ...

Saul Bellow

#13. I think people have no idea what's coming down the pike. This is the crown jewel of socialism. And we only have next week to stop it ... This is socialized medicine and like I said Sean this is the crown jewel of socialism ... It's unconstitutional.

Michele Bachmann

#14. Movie people think things are movies, and authors think things should be movies because, up until recently, movies have been the jewel in the crown. But, that seems to be changing.

Chris Albrecht

#15. The best 45 years of my life were the 5 years I spent with Ton Jones.

Jim Sullivan

#16. The crown of a man is his freedom, and the jewels are his achievements

Mohammed F. Abad Alrazak

#17. The boy River had grown into Styx the man and, despite his flaws and his harshness, he was all I wanted. All I had ever wanted.

Tillie Cole

#18. I don't know whether it's the finest public housing in America or the crown jewel of the American penal system.

William J. Clinton

#19. Some of us are returning to sanity, because we're tired of the pain. We're in a hurry. No time to mess around.

Byron Katie

#20. Our actions are the evidence of our belief and become the substance of our faith.

L. Whitney Clayton

#21. I love Texans. And Texas is clearly the crown jewel of Super Tuesday.

Ted Cruz

#22. I know the heart of life is good.

John Mayer

#23. Clenching his teeth against orgasm he replied with a groan, "Jot

Sarah G.

#24. There's one major difference between James Bond and me. He is able to sort out problems!

Sean Connery

#25. If you knew what I went through to get into your home, that I messed up my back trying to know you, inside and out, you'd judge me for it.

Caroline Kepnes

#26. There are some things you don't learn about yourself until you let someone else into the most intimate places of your heart.

Kiera Cass

#27. The right to private judgment is the crown jewel of humanity, and for any person or institution to dare to come between the soul and God is a blasphemous impertinence and a defamation of the crown rights of the Son of God.

George W Truett

#28. Electing love has selected some of the worst to be made the best. Pebbles of the brook grace turns into jewels for the crown-royal.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#29. My attitude about teaching has always been the same. From early on, I wanted to make yoga accessible so that anyone, regardless of ability, could experience its wonder, joy, and power. I encourage students to question, learn, and develop their own personal practice.

David F. Swensen