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Quotes About Jewel

Explain to me, that is, if there is time left before all the light I shall ever know winks out on me, and the Earth devours that incarnate jewel you found wanting.
~ Anne Rice
The India that the British East India Company conquered was no primitive or barren land, but the glittering jewel of the medieval world.
~ Shashi Tharoor
huge gemstone at its center flashed in the sunlight and caught everyone's gaze:
~ John Guy
Rabbi Scnhuer Zalman said it clearly when he wrote: "A broken heart is not the same as sadness. Sadness occurs when the heart is stone cold and lifeless. On the contrary, there is an unbelievable amount of vitality in a broken heart." In the middle of the mystery of pain, I harvested this precious jewel. I also harvested the love and beauty right here, in this world.
~ Elizabeth Lesser
I love earth tones, jewel tones and everything that is natural. I also like natural materials like cottons, silks... I don't like synthetic. Even the wood we use has to be authentic.
~ Sussanne Khan
Love is the saving grace. It's the buddha in you standing up and saying, "Even though it's dark, I have this jewel.
~ Sakyong Mipham
A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
This delight which God has in his creature's happiness cannot properly be said to be what God receives from the creature. For it is only the effect of his own work in and communications to the creature, in making it and admitting it to a participation of his fullness, as the sun receives nothing from the jewel that receives its light and shines only by a participation of its brightness.
~ John Piper
Which desirest thou the most? Is it the gratification of thy desires of each day, a jewel, a bit of finery, better raiment, more food; things quickly gone and forgotten? Or is it substantial belongings, gold, lands, herds,merchandise, income-bringing investments? The coins thou takest from thy purse bring the first. The coins thou leavest within it will bring the latter.
~ George S. Clason
See here, look at my hands. Say there's a cobweb spun between them. It's my ambition. And at its centre there's a spider, a color of a jewel. The spider is you. This is how I shall bear you--so gently, so carefully and without jar, you shall not know you are being taken.
~ Sarah Waters
Do you know how careful my love will make me? See here, look at my hands. Say there's a cobweb spun between them. It's my ambition. And at its centre there's a spider, a color of a jewel. The spider is you. This is how I shall bear you — so gently, so carefully and without jar, you shall not know you are being taken.
~ Sarah Waters
Heavens," said Galdo in a deep, dramatic voice, "only one man living could have squeezed forth such a gleaming brown jewel-- this is the work of Squatting Calo, the Midnight Shitter!
~ Scott Lynch
O troubled forms, O early love unfortunate and hard, Time has estranged you into a jewel cold and pure
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
Be frugal of your time. It is one of the best jewels we have.
~ Matthew Hale
Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
There are many kinds of open. . . Love is a word, another kind of open. . . Take my word for jewel in your open light.
~ Audre Lorde
Love is a word, another kind of open. As the diamond comes into a knot of flame I am Black because I come from the earth's inside take my word for jewel in the open light.
~ Audre Lorde
I am Black because I come from the earth's inside Now take my word for jewel in the open light. Audre Lorde
~ Audre Lorde
Your mind is a weapon. Your heart is an asset. Your soul is a treasure. Your life is a jewel.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
And thou hast stolen a jewel, Death! Shall light thy dark up like a Star. A Beacon kindling from afar Our light of love and fainting faith.
~ Gerald Massey
As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature's holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as [the] brightness of a jewel, held in the sun's beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun's brightness, though immensely less in degree.
~ Jonathan Edwards
La voluntad es la joya de la corona de la conducta junto con la inteligencia. A
~ Enrique Rojas
In the 17th century, Barbados was regarded in London as 'the brightest jewel in the English crown'.
~ Alistair Horne
Now you're trying to set me up with a jewel thief?" "At this point, sir, I would set you up with a chimpanzee if I thought it would bring you back to the world.
~ Greg Cox