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Quotes About Jewels

Minnie] knew what the public wanted of her and relished her role as empress, playing it extremely well, taking an almost childish delight in brilliant jewels, stylish clothing and grand parties. People responded readily to her pleasure. Physically small, she stood with royal carriage and a vital presence, commanding any room she entered. Her public both admired and liked her.
~ Unknown
The magnificent jewels Henry II had showered on her were reassigned to Mary
~ John Guy
a crown set with rubies and an emerald.
~ John Guy
The jewels of spiritual service are always quarried in the depths of spiritual experience. Never is this more true than in revival. Bend the church and save the people.
~ Sinclair B. Ferguson
All the merchants who passed through these waters wanted the rich city of Knossos as their customer, and Minos knew it. He welcomed them with wide, safe moorings and agents to collect for the privilege of using them. The inns and brothels belonged to Minos also, and the gold and jewels flowed like a great river to his hands.
~ Madeline Miller
And their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels.
~ John Steinbeck
They collected souls as they collected jewels.
~ John Steinbeck
Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.
~ Unknown
I'm an Austin slacker. Blue skies and a string of lakes like jewels, good Mexican food and a great live music scene keep our species alive with remarkably little cash flowing
~ Unknown
You may think you see plenty of stars, friend reader, but you are wrong. Night is both blacker and more brilliant than you can imagine, and the sky a glory that puts to shame the most splendid jewels at Renwick's.
~ Marie Brennan
Night is both blacker and more brilliant than you can imagine, and the sky a glory that puts to shame the most splendid jewels at Renwick's.
~ Marie Brennan
white marble bridges with dragons sleeping on the end-posts; paved courtyards replete with trees, each strung with twinkling silk lanterns in lieu of fruit; courtiers clothed in a myriad of jewel tones.
~ Nalini Singh
Relief and something like joy flew up inside Trevor's chest. They give us these miracles, these pardons, so generously, he thought; they crush our spirits like crashing boulders only to hold open their hands to give us jewels.
~ Nancy Thayer
It is said that pearls, being organic, become imbued with the essence of their wearer, and thus are the most personal of jewels
~ Neil Peart
Indeed, Constance, you amaze me. Such a girl as you want jewels! It will be time enough for jewels, my dear, twenty years hence, when your beauty begins to want repairs.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
The young gentlemen who came calling seemed especially puzzling. They sat in their velvet shirts and their leather boots, nibbling burnt cakes and praising Diamond's mind, and all the while their eyes said other things. Now, their eyes said. Now. Then: Patience, patience. 'You are flowers,' their mouths said, 'You are jewels, you are golden dreams.' Their eyes said: I eat flowers, I burn with dreams, I have a tower without a door in my heart, and I will keep you there...
~ Patricia A. McKillip
Looking back, long after his death, our way of living seems a miracle, one that could only be achieved by the silent synchronization of the jewels and gears of a common mind.
~ Patti Smith
Then he brought out jewels of silver and gold, and articles of clothing, and he gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious gifts to her brother and her mother.
~ Genesis 24:53
in the second row a turquoise, a sapphire, and a diamond;
~ Exodus 28:18
in the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;
~ Exodus 28:19
the second row had a turquoise, a sapphire, and a diamond;
~ Exodus 39:11
Your cheeks are beautiful with ornaments, your neck with strings of jewels.
~ Song of Solomon 1:10
His eyes are like doves beside the streams of water, bathed in milk and mounted like jewels.
~ Song of Solomon 5:12
His arms are rods of gold set with beryl. His body is an ivory panel bedecked with sapphires.
~ Song of Solomon 5:14