Top 100 Quotes About Pearls
#1. Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-colored pearls in the mouths of the dead. A sea-monster had been enamoured of the pearl that the diver brought to King Perozes, and had slain the thief, and mourned for seven moons over its loss.
Oscar Wilde
#2. She was wearing a gown of lilac pink threaded with silver and stitched with tiny pearls. It was gorgeous in itself, and of course had the perfect new skirt, but it did not flatter her as a cooler shade would have done.
Anne Perry
#3. Don't know why folks need diamonds and pearls, fur coats, first-class tickets, island adventures when simple shit like this is the best thing you could ever do.
Kristen Ashley
#4. Why is it that men can be bastards and women must wear pearls and smile?
Lynn Hecht Schafran
#5. A necklace of pearls on a white neck.
We had lost the sense of discovery which had infused the anarchy of our first year. I began to settle down.
... the old house in the foreground, the rest of the world abandoned and forgotten; a world of its own of peace and love and beauty ...
Evelyn Waugh
#6. McDonalds in Tokyo is a terrible revenge for Pearl Harbor.
S.I. Hayakawa
#7. The basic idea of arbitrary coherence is this: although initial prices (such as the price of Assael's pearls) are "arbitrary," once those prices are established in our minds they will shape not only present prices but also future prices (this makes them "coherent").
Dan Ariely
#8. Lingerie has gotten really cute, with little booty underwear and the cute little bras. They've gotten really detailed. I saw one the other day with little baby pearls on the strap. I had to have it.
Britney Spears
#9. But she named the infant "Pearl," as being of great price-purchased with all she had-her mother's only treasure!
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#10. The living carry us inside them like pearls. We survive only so long as they remember us.
Kevin Brockmeier
#11. It is not our difficulties or our suffering alone that makes us wise. It is what we add to them
patience, perseverance, compassion, courage, love. From this combination, our priceless pearls of wisdom grow.
Barbara De Angelis
#12. Hasten Little Maiden
...
stop and listen
for pearls of wisdom
stop and listen
as the river glistens ...
Muse
#13. Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!
Henry Ward Beecher
#14. Think of a musical as a string of pearls. If you don't have a string, you can't put the pearls around your neck.
Marsha Norman
#15. Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best
work came out of it.
Joni Mitchell
#16. The pearl is the queen of gems and the gem of queens.
Grace Kelly
#17. A brown trout sips one off the surface. Beneath the trout, mica-flecked sand gleams white. Come fall the female's caudal fin will nudge the grains to make a nest, the eggs spilling like pearls into a purse.
Ron Rash
#19. Pearl Harbor is strenuously respectful of contemporary sensitivities, sometimes at the cost of accuracy.
A.O. Scott
#20. Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds and dearer than fine opals. pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the market-place. It may not be purchased of the merchants, nor can it be weighted out in the balance for gold.
Oscar Wilde
#21. It enclosed us in its laceries as we watched the moon spill across the Atlantic like wine from an overturned glass. With the light all around us, we felt secret in that moon-infused water like pearls forming in the soft tissues of oysters.
Pat Conroy
#22. Now, see there. Just because I'm wearing my Super-Dike sweatshirt, you think I'm a lesbian. I guess if I were wearing a string of pearls, you'd think I was an oyster.
Florynce Kennedy
#23. But our own selves are like pearls, created by layer after layer of present laid over past until the original thing is completely hidden.
Tad Williams
#24. There are seven mermaid princesses and seven pearls. The reason I sing is to convey my love. The reason the pearl sparkels is to brighten the sea. And so, I can never forget...the sound of the waves or the warmth of the sea.
Pink Hanamori
#25. A new doctor had been sent for, Lazzaro of Pavia, who had administered to Lorenzo a pulverized mixture of diamonds and pearls. This hitherto infallible medicine had failed to help.
Irving Stone
#26. Sirens wailed; the revolution had come to Harrisonville. Blood was flowing on Pearl Street.
Joe Eszterhas
#27. From the beginning, for instance, Assael "anchored" his pearls to the finest gems in the world-and the prices followed forever after.
Dan Ariely
#28. Let the splendor of diamond, pearl and ruby vanish? Only let this one teardrop, this Taj Mahal, glisten spotlessly bright on the cheek of time, forever and ever.
Rabindranath Tagore
#29. You're hard sometimes, but you're genuine and easy to love. You give people everything you have to give, Silas. You're a rough diamond amongst pearls. You look like a dirty stone amongst the sheen, but your value far exceeds the silky dull shine of a pearl.
Criss Copp
#30. Pearls rarely turn up in oysters served to you on a plate; you have to dive for them.
Thor Heyerdahl
#31. I would that I were an old beggar
Rolling a blind pearl eye,
For he cannot see my lady
Go gallivanting by.
William Butler Yeats
#32. Pearls of wisdom need matching hearrings.
Figuratio
#33. And one day, I'd love to see you dressed in nothing but pearls.
Kristen Proby
#34. It's an odd thing, happiness. Some people take happiness from gold. Or black pearls. And some of us, far more fortunate, take their happiness from periwinkles.
Patricia A. McKillip
#35. Religion is not a book, it is not an institution, and it is not even a person. True Religion is realization of the self.
Abhijit Naskar
#36. Cause it's a hard life, with love in the world. and i'm a hard girl, loving me is like chewing on pearls.
Lady Gaga
#37. But here are wine and beautiful young girls, Be wise and hide your sorrows in their curls, Dive as you will in life's mysterious sea, You shall not bring us any better pearls.
Christopher Hitchens
#38. Good decisions are pearls on your neck.
Bad decisions are thorns in your side.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#39. It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them; but on the contrary, men have dived for them because they fetch a high price.
Richard Whately
#40. Now, an hour later, Ethan stood at a window, gazing at the rain, like threads of seed pearls, accessorizing the hills of Bel Air.
Watching weather clarified his thinking.
Sometimes only nature felt real, while all human monuments and actions seemed to be the settings and the plots of dreams.
Dean Koontz
#41. Sacredness grew like a pearl, sometimes around the most unlikely bits of grit.
S.M. Stirling
#42. I have been hired by Allah to get a wage, which if the space between the Earth and sky is filled up with pearls, still (the wage) would be more than it, for each of the questions I may answer you. Therefore, I deserve it that I must not feel tired or exhausted (in answering your questions).
Fatima Bint Muhammad
#43. Frog or pearl, life hid something at the bottom of the cup.
Mary Butts
#44. And we laughed, at the world. They can have their diamonds, And we'll have our pearls
Jill Sobule
#45. The truth about Chanel's bespoke femininity is that a woman can do or say whatever she wants as long as she's wearing pearls.
Karen Karbo
#46. By creating an intelligent thought, you open the road for many other intelligent thoughts! By producing a stupid thought, you open the path for many other stupid thoughts! Beware of your thoughts! Create pearl, and then pearls will increase! Create mud, and then mud will increase!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#48. The crisis of our diminishing water resources is just as severe (if less obviously immediate) as any wartime crisis we have ever faced. Our survival is just as much at stake as it was at the time of Pearl Harbor, or the Argonne, or Gettysburg, or Saratoga.
Jim Wright
#49. If you roll a pearl around your mouth it slowly reveals the dreams of oysters, memories of the sea, the taste of orgasm.
Chloe Thurlow
#50. It was was very important not to cast any pearls before swine
especially when one of the swine was trying to keep kosher.
Jaffe Cohen
#52. Summer lightning made it seem that flickering white-hot wires were turning in the terribly blue sky just above the horizon, and the recent storms had driven in toward shore hundreds of gigantic Portuguese man-o'-wars that now hung below the surface of the water like big malignant pearls.
Tim Powers
#53. So many pearls to be had, if you were in the mood to open oysters.
Maggie Stiefvater
#54. Don't judge people by their profession, otherwise you'll end up with more enemies than friends.
Abhijit Naskar
#55. You still cry too easily, but without your tears, at least, everything would burn. You are Spring in your jeans, in the laughing leaves. I think pearls melted over your bones.
Francesca Lia Block
#56. Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle;
Love is the work of wrestlers.
The one who becomes a servant of lovers
is really a fortunate sovereign.
Don't ask anyone about Love; ask Love about Love.
Love is a cloud that scatters pearls.
Rumi
#57. My dad was in a Beatles cover band. My mom wore Candies and belly buttons. The people in our family were very glamorous. They wore pearls like Jackie O.
Azita Ghanizada
#58. And out of his heaviness there stood out strangely but one clear thought and it was a pain to him, and it was this, that he wished he had not taken the two pearls from O-lan that day when she was washing his clothes at the pool, and he would never bear to see Lotus put them in her ears again.
Pearl S. Buck
#59. [After she and Clare Boothe Luce met in a doorway and the latter said, 'Age before beauty':] Pearls before swine.
Dorothy Parker
#60. Everything beautiful is golden and strewn with pearls. Even golden people live here. But misfortune is a dark power, a monstrous, cannibalistic giant, who is, however, vanquished, because a good woman, who happily knows how to avert disaster, stands ready to help.
Jack D. Zipes
#61. The big news, delicious tidbits, pearls of wisdom
nicely packaged, constantly updated ... What political junkie could ask for more?
Larry Sabato
#62. Ripe summer's sweetness dripped
in pearls from every tree
and into my opened heart
a little drop ran down.
Edith Sodergran
#63. There are always lessons to be found in the darkest moments. It's a moral obligation to dig deep and find that little glimmer of hope or pearl of wisdom.
Andrea Pirlo
#64. I saw the film Pearl Harbour and it made me wish that the Japanese had bombed Hollywood instead!
Clive James
#65. As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain.
Suzanne Collins
#67. Faith is the silver thread upon which the pearls of the graces are to be hung. Break that, and you have broken the string - the pearls lie scattered on the ground.
Charles Spurgeon
#68. Though face and form alter with the years, I hold fast to the pearl of my mind.
Hanshan
#70. You can rake the muck this way, rake the muck that way
it will always be muck. Have I sinned or have I not sinned? In the time I am brooding over it, I could be stringing pearls for the delight of Heaven
Martin Buber
#71. If you want to live greatly, you must also be willing to risk greatly. To get to the pearls, the diver needs to be willing to go deep and visit the places that the timid souls would never visit.
Robin S. Sharma
#72. The charcoals of burned out religious philosophies are perceived by devout fanatics as pearls, which the heathen swine cannot appreciate.
Dimitris Mita
#73. I'm pretty lost in becoming all this frost. Bitter, like Winter. Strung-out like a string of pearls.
Ashly Lorenzana
#74. It's good to ask questions that make people uncomfortable.
Benjamin DeHaven
#75. The pearls weren't really white, they were a warm oyster beige, with little knots in between so if they broke, you only lost one. I wished my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.
Janet Fitch
#76. Pearls' burst out the Snork Maiden excitedly. 'Could ankle rings be made out of pearls?'
'I should think they could,' said Moomintoll. 'Ankle-rings, and nose-rings and ear-rings and engagement rings ...
Tove Jansson
#77. After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.
L.M. Montgomery
#79. If you wish to slay a dragon you must charm it first.
Stephan Attia
#80. Do not give w dogs what is holy, and do not throw your x pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you.
Anonymous
#81. You know, if you put enough pressure on coal it turns to pearls, he
Suzanne Collins
#83. The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too
Vincent Van Gogh
#84. Whenever he is hungry and opens his bag, there are only pearls inside.
Hermann Hesse
#85. Montreal, this wonderful town ... Pearl of Canada, Pearl of the world.
Mikhail Gorbachev
#86. Everybody sat around thinking about Panasonic, the Japanese electronics account. Finally I decided, what the hell, I'll throw a line to loosen them up. The headline is, the headline is: From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor.
Jerry Della Femina
#87. 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
#88. I found the pearl of the Orient slightly less exciting than a rainy Sunday evening in Rochester.
S.J Perelman
#90. We're super fortunate in Pearl Jam to have such loyal fans ... who really want to come & see us play.
Stone Gossard
#91. Whatever pearl you seek, look for the pearl within the pearl!
Rumi
#92. The success of our surprise attack on Pearl Harbor will prove to be the Waterloo of the war to follow. For this reason the Imperial Navy is massing the cream of its strength in ships and planes to assure success.
Chuichi Nagumo
#93. It tasted like a shade of white near blue; it tasted like the idea of pearls; it tasted like a memory nearly grasped but lost at the last moment.
Catherynne M Valente
#94. It is always easy to shine in the dark mud! Choose the difficult task: Amongst the pearls under the sun, try to shine more than them!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#95. Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.
Joseph Addison
#96. Miss Annamae didn't give you those pearls because she thought for a second they'd get close to beating you down. She gave you those pearls because she knew without a doubt they never would.
Kristen Ashley
#97. A man who can own pearls does not bother about shells, and those who aspire to virtue do not trouble themselves over honors.
Francis De Sales
#98. Revealing of origin , evidence the existence of hidden pearls in mind which is addicted to imagine and thought as well.
Seema Gupta
#99. Man is not to drown himself in the well of the Shastras, but he is to dive in their broad ocean and bring out pearls.
Mahatma Gandhi
#100. There are pearls in the deepest fathoms of the Self, but to get them you will have to go through unimaginable perils.
Abhijit Naskar
