Quotes About Gems

Gems may be precious, but friendship is priceless.

The greatest virtues among terrestrial objects were attributed to gems, some of which, it was believed, could confer wisdom and eloquence, graciousness or success or riches upon their bearers, or even make them invisible.

Vanessa stood on the stage now giving out CDs and T-shirts to outstretched hands. She was dressed as a devil, in a slinky red dress. Glitter made her perfect tanned skin shine. Her blond hair was held back by devil horns and a long sinuous tail twitched behind her. She had lined her large blue eyes with tiny silver gems for this night.

The sort of thing people call little masterpieces, trifles that are perfect gems, in fact what I loathe most in the world. The

There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather that compels the stranger's admiration—and regret. The weather is always doing something there; always attending strictly to business; always getting up new designs and trying them on the people to see how they will go…. Yes, one of the brightest gems in the New England weather is the dazzling uncertainty of it.

Pearls from the soul are more precious than diamonds from the mine.

quand il parle, ses mots s'apparentent à des perles enfilées sur un fil de soie ... quand il parle, il est comme le lustre répandu par un rubis ... quand il parle, c'est comme des éclaboussures de cristal qui fendent le bleu ....

In Mahayana Buddhism, the fractal nature of reality is illustrated in the Avatamsaka Sutra by the metaphor of Indra's net, a vast network of precious gems hanging over the palace of the god Indra, so arranged that if you look at one you see all the others reflected in it.

Tears that but form gems on sleeves must come, I think, from an insincere heart, for mine, though I seek to repress them, gush forth in torrents.

in the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;

the third row had a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;

How the gold has become tarnished, the pure gold has become dull! The gems of the temple lie scattered on every street corner.

the fifth sardonyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst.