Quotes About Pearls

#1. This is because he has in his heart a pearl, innocence; and pearls are not to be dissolved in mud. So long as man is in his childhood, God wills that he shall be innocent.

Victor Hugo

#2. A SEEING eye is better than three hundred blind men's: The eye can distinguish pearls from pebbles.

Rumi

#3. All religions are precious pearls strung on the golden thread of divinity.

Samael Aun Weor

#4. Nancy Rue has once more proven that Christianity doesn't necessary arrive in a double-breasted suit or wearing pearls. Sometimes it roars in on a Harley, packing more punch than a three-part sermon.

DiAnn Mills

#5. I saw pearls in her mouth and the velvet cushion of her tongue and I heard the magic words come out of her.

Glenda Millard

#6. The burden of suffering seems a tombstone hung about our necks, while in reality it is only the weight which is necessary to keep down the diver while he is hunting for pearls.

Jean Paul

#7. He that marries is like the dogs who was married to the Adriatic. He knows not what there is in that which he marries; mayhap treasures and pearls, mayhap monsters and tempests, await him.

Heinrich Heine

#8. If one busies himself with an outer display of scriptural wealth, what time is left for silent inward diving after the priceless pearls?" Sri

Paramahansa Yogananda

#9. But don't worry; as I've been saying - and this has been very clever of me, I'm sure you'll agree - if you put enough pressure on coal, it'll turn to pearls!

Suzanne Collins

#10. Remember, Sookie, nothing says more about a family than good silver and real pearls. The rest is just fluff.

Fannie Flagg

#11. Cancer is a great wake-up call. A call to take the tag off the new lingerie and wear that black lacy slip. To open the box of pearls and put them on. To crack open the bath oil beads before they shrivel up in a bowl on the toilet tank.

Regina Brett

#12. 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

#13. Girls are pearls, ladies are rubies, mothers are moulders, and women are wonderful.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

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

Debasish Mridha

#15. Facts are no more slid, coherent, round, and real than pearls are. Bot both are sensitive.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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

Rick Warren

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

Muhammad Ali

#18. Once upon a time in a basement library nook,
I stumbled upon my first favorite book.
Pulled into adventure as the pages unfurled,
I found treasures greater than gold or pearls.

Tyrean Martinson

#19. If diving once does not bring you pearls, you need not therefore conclude that the sea is without them.

Ramakrishna

#20. 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

#21. Dive into the sea of thought, and find there pearls beyond price.

Moses Ibn Ezra

#22. Speakers have been showering us with pearls of wisdom for centuries, and if all of their valuable advice were laid end to end, it would still be just as good as new. Very little of it has ever been used.

Benjamin Franklin Fairless

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

Jean De La Bruyere

#24. 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

#25. We follow a path of discovery, strung like pearls on a thread of curiosity, lending richness to our work.

James Krenov

#26. Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before swine, or they will trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

Anonymous

#27. For in my nature I quested for beauty, but God, God hath sent me to sea for pearls.

Christopher Smart

#28. Gratitude and Contentment is the greatest worker of miracles. It transforms water into wine, grains of sand into pearls, raindrops into balsam, poverty into wealth, the smallest into the greatest, the most common to the most noble, earth into paradise.

Kaspar Hauser

#29. Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.

A.E. Housman

#30. Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.

Al-Ghazali

#31. Coco Chanel used to talk about wearing more than one string of pearls. Why wear one if you can wear two, or something to that effect. I think that one string of pearls is just fine. But that's because my pearls are black, hers were white.

C. JoyBell C.

#32. the soles off your shoes!' Then he took out a sack of pearls which lay in the rushes, and without another word he dragged it away and disappeared behind a stone. It happened that soon afterwards the mother sent the two children to the town to buy needles and thread, and laces

Jacob Grimm

#33. Go boldly forth, my simple lay,Whose accents flow with artless ease,Like orient pearls at random strung.

William Jones

#34. I am thoroughly sick of pearls. They make one look so plain, so good and so intellectual.

Oscar Wilde

#35. Value them; they are pearls of great price

Kristin Cast

#36. Impressions are like pearls; ideas are like the string that turns the pearls into a necklace. The string is invisible, but it is not dispensable and cannot be broken.

Mu Xin

#37. If knowledge hangs around your neck like pearls instead of chains you are a lucky man.

Chris Wade

#38. Do not give dogs what is holy; and do not throw your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under foot, and turn to attack you (Matthew 7:6).

Stephen Lampe

#39. I am the thread that runs through all these pearls, and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and God is the thread that runs through all of them; most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.

Swami Vivekananda

#40. They had to call and call
And pick the worms off me like sticky pearls.
From the poem "Lady Lazarus", written 23-29 October 1962

Sylvia Plath

#41. I want to spend your last semester getting you out of those fucking pearls and on all fours. Close your mouth, Elle, because there's one more thing I want.

Maya St. James

#42. Come o'er the eastern hills, and let our winds Kiss thy perfumed garments; let us taste Thy morn and evening breath; scatter thy pearls Upon our love-sick land that mourns for thee.

William Blake

#43. My mandalas were cryptograms concerning the state of the self which was presented to me anew each day ... I guarded them like precious pearls ... It became increasingly plain to me that the mandala is the center. It is the exponent of all paths. It is the path to the center, to individuation.

Carl Jung

#44. Age before beauty, and pearls before swine.

Dorothy Parker

#45. Chanel is composed of only a few elements, white camellias, quilted bags and Austrian doorman's jackets, pearls, chains, shoes with black toes. I use these elements like notes to play with.

Karl Lagerfeld

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

Aberjhani

#47. Grace turns pennies into gold, pebbles into pearls, sickness into health, weakness into strength, and needs into abundance.

Anonymous

#48. Quotations are the gold mine of human mind, the silver pearls of the wisdom ocean, and the cool drops of the rain of intelligence.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#49. 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

#50. 'I shall have heaven and earth for my coffin and its shell; the sun and moon for my two round symbols of jade, the stars and constellations for my pearls and jewels; and all things assisting as the mourners. Will not the provisions for my funeral be complete? What could you add to them?'

Zhuangzi

#51. Her breast is fit for pearls,
But I was not a "Diver" -
Her brow is fit for thrones
But I have not a crest,
Her heart is fit for home-
I- a Sparrow- build there
Sweet of twigs and twine
My perennial nest.

Emily Dickinson

#52. Empty women, who strive for no good but exist to adorn themselves ... These women of majestic pride, fantastic coiffures, outlandish ornament, and necks bound with gold or pearls bear the glittering symbols of their captivity to men.

Laura Cereta

#53. Go then, a starveling girl
With no perfume or pearls,
Only your nudity
O my beauty!

Charles Baudelaire

#54. The roe of the Russian sturgeon has probably been present at more important international affairs than have all the Russian dignitaries of history combined. This seemingly simple article of diet has taken its place in the world along with pearls, sables, old silver, and Cellini cups.

James Beard

#55. I like to think about stringing songs together like a string of pearls, or a string of beads, but ultimately it has to be stuff that really works with the band, and gives a spin to the older material.

Emmylou Harris

#56. It's surely one of the strange phenomena of this decade that the most thoughtful gift you can bring a date is not flowers, chocolates, or ankle-length pearls, but a note from your doctor.

Linda Sunshine

#57. Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.

Gertrude Stein

#58. 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

#59. Surely 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 marketplace. It may not be purchased of the merchants, for can it be weighed out in the balance for gold.

Oscar Wilde

#60. The intellectual quest is exquisite like pearls and coral, But it is not the same as the spiritual quest. The spiritual quest is on another level altogether, Spiritual wine has a subtler taste. The intellect and the senses investigate cause and effect. The spiritual seeker surrenders to the wonder.

Rumi

#61. Sticking to my schedule, I've gotten over seven months ahead, which allowed me to write a 'Pearls Before Swine' movie script for the big screen.

Stephan Pastis

#62. You know, lieutenant, you wear your weapon the way other women wear pearls."
"It's not a fashion accessory.

J.D. Robb

#63. Praying is precious like pearls.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#64. Listen, do you think we could, you know, have sex ? I could pay you extra of course. I know it's not part of your job , but I'd love to strip you bare to just those pearls and bury myself in your -

Angela Claire

#65. The world is your oyster. It's up to you to find the pearls.

Chris Gardner

#66. To the seeker after pearls, silence is a speaking argument, for no breath comes forth from the diver of the sea.

Saib Tabrizi

#67. That's what I love about music ... all these banalities suddenly turn into these beautiful, effervescent pearls.

Mark Ruffalo

#68. Satan rejoiced when Adam (peace be upon him) came out of Paradise, but he did not know that when a diver sinks into the sea, he collects pearls and then rises again.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

#69. A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape.

Paul Scofield

#70. Swathed in an old tweed coat on which the damp had settled like a thousand tiny pearls.

Philip Pullman

#71. 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

#72. Immersed in surrender and gratitude, celestial pearls of wisdom form rosaries of prayer that entangle with my soul.

Earthschool Harmony

#73. When he marched to the altar, all the women in smart hats leaned away from the aisle, their long strands of pearls all swaying to one side as if the deck of a ship listed beneath them.

Barbara Kingsolver

#74. 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

#75. Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance. Everyone is just waiting.

Dr. Seuss

#76. In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls

Honore De Balzac

#77. Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine.

Desiderius Erasmus

#78. The diver plunges deep to find pearls, and we must accept any labor or hazard to win a soul

Charles Spurgeon

#79. Universally, the better gold the worse man. The political economist defies us to show any gold mine country that is traversed by good roads, or a shore where pearls are found on which good schools are erected.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#80. Cordone, delighted with himself for swindling the gullible Indians out of a fortune in pearls, stood at the railing of his ship smiling down at the pursuers. He was about to order his soldiers to fire upon the Indians when he was struck in the chest by an arrow. He dropped to the deck.

W.C. Jameson

#81. Think of yourselves as pearls. We, sitting in our rows, eyes down, we make her salivate morally. We are hers to define, we must suffer her adjectives. I think about pearls. Pearls are congealed oyster spit.

Margaret Atwood

#82. Giddy grasshopper
Take care ... do not leap and crush
These pearls of dewdrop

Kobayashi Issa

#83. No one who possesses snow would find any hardship in exchanging it for jewels and pearls. This world is like snow exposed to sun, which continues to melt until it disappears altogether, while the next life is like a precious stone that never passes away.

Al-Ghazali

#84. I am wondering when - if - I have to cut my hair. I think it looks terrible if you have really long hair and it's gone gray. So I am experimenting with wearing it up. Up, with pearls. I think that's quite a good look.

Jerry Hall

#85. The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when the rope breaks, and roll away in perfection and anarchy.

Mark Helprin

#86. Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.

Barrett Foa

#87. Pearls of wisdom by Ms. Hove: When choosing the right person to date, there are many virtues to consider: honesty, respect, and compassion. Be selective! Slow down!! Get to know the person before permitting any intimacy to occur.

Leslie Portu

#88. A universal truth that most mature women have learned, often the hard way ... When choosing a mate, keep in mind, only nature has the ability to turn sand into pearls. If the relationship isn't happy, healthy, or working, move on ... unless of course you prefer sand.

K.E. Garvey

#89. Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.

Abdelkader El Djezairi

#90. I must be besotted," he said evenly. "I have the imbecilic idea that you're the prettiest girl I've ever seen. Except for your coiffure," he added, with a disgusted glance at the coils and plumes and pearls. "That is ghastly."
She scowled. "Your romantic effusions leave me breathless.

Loretta Chase

#91. We will find another way," she repeated. "We're like orbiting pearls. No matter what pulls us apart, we'll always find our way back to each other.

Susan Waggoner

#92. There is no irritant as painful as an ace up your sleeve that you can never use; it's the kind of thing that causes oysters to produce pearls.

Sheila Ballantyne

#93. In your hands winter is a book with cloud pages that snow pearls of love.

Aberjhani

#94. A women needs ropes and ropes of pearls.

Coco Chanel

#95. Other tokens of maturity included a velvet choker of tiny pearls, the ginger tresses gathered at the nape and secured with an emerald clasp, three loose silver bracelets around a freckled wrist, and the fact that whenever she moved, the air about her tasted of rose water.

Ian McEwan

#96. Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow;
He who would search for pearls, must dive below.

John Dryden

#97. Those who dive in the sea of affliction bring up rare pearls.

Charles Spurgeon

#98. Pearls are congealed oyster spit.

Margaret Atwood

#99. Pearls ... have a way of dying when separated from their owner.

Nina Berberova

#100. I heard voices outside our front door - a woman's, bright as polished brass, and a man's, low and dark like the wood of the table I was working on. They were the kind of voices we heard rarely in our house. I could hear rich carpets in their voices, books and pearls and fur.

Tracy Chevalier