Quotes About Gems And Jewels

#1. the Lord Ratnasambhava keeps all his treasure inside mongooses. When the god needs his gems and jewels, he squeezes one mongoose and makes it vomit them up!

Jane Wilson-Howarth

#2. The beauty of having a studio is I can go in and record any time I want to, so you can always put down your ideas or whatever. You use your voice recorder and, you know, take your voice notes down and just preserve all the little jewels and gems when you're in there, putting that song together.

Big Boi

#3. There are gems of wondrous brightness
Ofttimes lying at our feet,
And we pass them, walking thoughtless,
Down the busy, crowded street.
If we knew, our pace would slacken,
We would step more oft with care,
Lest our careless feet be treading
To the earth some jewel rare.

Rudyard Kipling

#4. Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of their people.

Lee H. Hamilton

#5. We can't control death. There's nothing either of us can do to avoid it or to hold it off. All we can control is how we live our lives before it comes for us.

J.A. Redmerski

#6. Gems, in fact, are a species of mineral flowers; they are the blossoms of the dark, hard mine; and what they want in perfume, they make up in durability.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#7. You have to swallow, every day, that you are a secondary being whose worth is measured by an arbitrary, impossible standard, administered

Lindy West

#8. Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. I cannot exist without the oxygen of laughter.

Dawn Powell

#10. I have this disease that if I feel good somewhere, I ... buy a house.

Christian Louboutin

#11. Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her hand she bore.

Thomas Moore

#12. Whiskey is by far the most popular of all remedies that won't cure a cold.

Jerry Vale

#13. A large number of us have developed a feeling that architects tend to design houses for the approval of fellow architects and critics, not for the tenants.

Prince Charles

#14. Forty percent of the United States drains into the Mississippi. It's agriculture. It's golf courses. It's domestic runoff from our lawns and roads. Ultimately, where does it go? Downstream into the gulf.

Sylvia Earle

#15. Birds were created to record everything. They were not designed just to be beautiful jewels in the sky, but to serve as the eyes of heaven.

Suzy Kassem

#16. In a country like India, the British were only able to rule the country because it had completely co-opted the elite of the country, who did their work for them.

Arundhati Roy

#17. The pearl is the queen of gems and the gem of queens.

Grace Kelly

#18. Manfried imagined the stars to be jewels shining in the depths of a long-sealed crypt and, drifting off, he almost glimpsed himself prying open the lid of night and stuffing his pockets with the glittering gems.

Jesse Bullington