Quotes About Pearls

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.

Or a nacreous sleep among soft particles and charms

Still," he says, "certain things compel people. Pearls, for example, and sinistral shells, shells with a left-handed opening. Even the best scientists feel the urge now and then to put something in a pocket. That something so small could be so beautiful. Worth so much. Only the strongest people can turn away from feelings like that.

You still cry too easily, but without your tears, at least, everything would burn. You are Spring in your jeans, in the laughing leaves. I think pearls melted over your bones.

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.

Pearls are congealed oyster spit.

Single strand of pearls, wild, not cultured. (Worth it, she said: only the wild ones had souls.)

Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!

She was wearing a gown of lilac pink threaded with silver and stitched with tiny pearls. It was gorgeous in itself, and of course had the perfect new skirt, but it did not flatter her as a cooler shade would have done.

Posy and pearls Amethyst and gold Forever you and I Our precious love to hold.

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.

Pearls are for tears, Erik. Didn't you know?

Imagine your Aunt Minnie bringing you a plate of cookies as you sat in front of the TV, a string of human molars strung casually, like pearls, around her neck.

The daylight had dawned upon the glades of the oak forest. The green boughs glittered with all their pearls of dew.

Solía decir que algunas personas no eran capaces de distinguir y encontrar las perlas entre la arena, o únicamente tenían la fuerza de carácter para quitar la arena de unas cuantas perlas y terminaban sólo con una gargantilla.

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.

He who would search for pearls must dive below.

For I must wander On the deep sea bed Showering pearls on dead men Gathering shells And sweeping the shadows of passing boats With my falling hair Across the sliding sands into the mouth of hell

The successive existences in a series of rebirths are not like the pearls in a pearl necklace, held together by a string, the "soul," which passes through all the pearls; rather they are like dice piled one on top of the other. Each die is separate, but it supports the one above it, with which it is functionally connected. Between the dice there is no identity, but conditionality.14

cause it's a hard life, with love in the world. and i'm a hard girl, loving me is like chewing on pearls.

with her fog, her amphetamine, and her pearls ...

But our own selves are like pearls, created by layer after layer of present laid over past until the original thing is completely hidden.

Pearls have such a magic that they suit every one.' 'They would uncommonly suit you,' he frankly returned. 'Oh yes, I see myself!

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.