Quotes About Pearls And Diamonds

#1. People imagine I am always in a Bentley with pearls and diamonds and black glasses and Karl Lagerfeld next to me.

Ines De La Fressange

#2. Minute diamonds of moisture from the mist hung, too, upon Tess's eyelashes, and drops upon her hair, like seed pearls. When the day grew quite strong and commonplace these dried off her; moreover, Tess then lost her strange and ethereal beauty;

Thomas Hardy

#3. When you ask God for a gift,
Be thankful if he sends,
Not diamonds, pearls or riches,
but the love of real true friends.

Helen Steiner Rice

#4. It was indescribable what she wanted. She was restless. She wanted to work. She wanted to be thirty people. She wanted to wear a cap of pearls and a coat of bright blue diamonds. To live as nature does, in many ages, in many brains

Danielle Dutton

#5. The sea does not contain all the pearls, the earth does not enclose all the treasures, and the flint-stone does not inclose all the diamonds, since the head of man encloses wisdom.

Saadi

#6. From rocks come gold.
From coal comes diamonds.
From oysters come pearls.
From caterpillars come butterflies.
From adversity come the great.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#7. When God was creating heaven and earth, and there came what seemed like a problem: darkness and formlessness, He did not talk problem, instead, He spoke solution: 'And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light'. May we instead of making problems our speech, think and speak solutions!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#8. That's the world that matters. The world where people glitter like diamonds with a million facets. Where people are like pearls, luminous as nacre on the surface but each with a speck that would destroy it if you were looking only for specks.

James A. Michener

#9. I hold with the old-fashioned criticism that Browning is not really a poet, that he has all the gifts but the one needful and the pearls without the string; rather one should say raw nuggets and rough diamonds.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#10. At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.

Aberjhani

#11. I couldn't have found a better man than Brad. He still opens doors for me and brings me flowers. He's the sweetest goofball on the planet.

Jennifer Aniston

#12. Slippery stages were the terror of my life.

Fred Astaire

#13. Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.

Jean De La Bruyere

#14. Your body is sacred. You're far more precious than diamonds and pearls, and you should be covered too.

Muhammad Ali

#15. God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you, too.

Rick Warren

#16. Let us decorate the world with the pearls of a smile, diamonds of hope, and the rubies of love.

Debasish Mridha

#17. Perfection is the natural consequence of eternity: wait long enough, and anything will realize its potential. Coal becomes diamonds, sand becomes pearls, apes become men. It's simply not given to us, in one lifetime, to see those consummations, and so every failure becomes a reminder of death.

Ian Caldwell

#18. These pearls are orient, but they yield in whiteness to your teeth; the diamonds are brilliant, but they cannot match your eyes; and ever since I have taken up this wild trade, I have made a vow to prefer beauty to wealth.

Walter Scott

#19. more diamonds and pearls of electricity

Allen Ginsberg

#20. Cam shook his head. 'Do you ever listen to how much crazy shit comes out of your mouth?'
'Nope.' I hooked my fingers into his waistband and pulled him closer. 'Nobody does. That's why I remain undiagnosed.'

Lisa Henry

#21. I have four pelvises on my desk. One is from a human woman who died not long ago.

Meredith Small

#22. And we laughed, at the world. They can have their diamonds, And we'll have our pearls

Jill Sobule

#23. 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

#24. 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