Quotes About Lapis Lazuli

#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. Women are inferior. And God likes it that way.

Ellen Hopkins

#11. They say, 'Nothing can be done here!' I reply, 'I know no such word in the vocabulary I adopt!'

Dorothea Dix

#12. I love electronic music as much as I love something that sounds like Pullhair Rubeye, or something a little bit more organic than that.

Avey Tare

#13. Temperament is fixed, set. The skull, followed by the temperament: the two hardest parts of the body. Follow your temperament. It is not a philosophy, It is a rule, like the Rule of St Benedict.

J.M. Coetzee

#14. Every stage of life have its own challenges.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. I want to help change the way young people look at school, and hence, the way they look at their futures.

Kanye West

#16. The determination to outwit one's situation means that one has no models, only object lessons.

James A. Baldwin

#17. Man, there's a lot of pressure when you put on that Kansas uniform with the high expectations everyone has.

Paul Pierce

#18. Considering that Timur had ignored every instrument of government except terror, it is remarkable his immediate successors managed to retain control of most of his empire.

Colin McEvedy

#19. When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir.

Thomas Paine