Quotes about jewels
jewels cash existence
And what about the cash, my existence's jewel? Charles Dickens
jewels monsters canvas
I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there! Camille Pissarro
jewels
I don't need jewels and cars. It's about the delicacy of the way I'm handled. Leonor Varela
jewels light black
I am Black because I come from the earth's inside now take my word for jewel in the open light. Audre Lorde
jewels use ornaments
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
jewels mind opal
Now the melancholy God protect thee, and the tailor make thy garments of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is opal. William Shakespeare
jewels house chastity
My chastity's the jewel of our house, bequeathed down from many ancestors.
jewels people inconsistency
Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people. Susan B. Anthony
jewels grace gutters
Free grace can go into the gutter, and bring up a jewel! Charles Spurgeon
jewels age compass
Posterity preserves only what will pack into small compass. Jewels are handed down from age to age; less portable valuables disappear.
jewels goal perfection
Convenient though it would be if it were true, Mozilla [Netscape 1.0] is not big because it's full of useless crap. Mozilla is big because your needs are big. Your needs are big because the Internet is big. There are lots of small, lean web browsers out there that, incidentally, do almost nothing useful. But being a shining jewel of perfection was not a goal when we wrote Mozilla. Jamie Zawinski
jewels belief made
Jewels! It's my belief that when woman was made, jewels were invented only to make her the more mischievous. Douglas William Jerrold
jewels treasure dignity
A person fully awakened to the jewel-like dignity of their own life is capable of truly respecting that same treasure in others. Daisaku Ikeda
jewels one-day upbraid
The clock upbraids me with the waste of time.
jewels may watches
A woman that is like a German clock, Still a-repairing, ever out of frame, And never going aright, being a watch, But being watched that it may still go right!
jewels sparkle stretched
Jewels five-words long/ That on the stretched forefinger of all Time/ Sparkle for ever.
jewels metal precious religion round stones
Like jewels in a crown, the precious stones glittered in the queen's round metal hat.
jewels cities paris
After the occupation of Paris, Hitler visited Paris, which of course was a great jewel for him, and he wanted to go up on the Eiffel Tower and gaze down upon the city of Paris, which he'd conquered. For some reason the elevators mysteriously stopped working that day. Some people say it might have had to do with the French resistance. So he couldn't go up. Joe Harris
jewels law land
There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning; no learning so excellent both for Prince and subject, as knowledge of laws; and no knowledge of any laws so necessary for all estates and for all causes, concerning goods, lands or life, as the common laws of England. Edward Coke
jewels definitions coal
Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond. Khalil Gibran
jewels white america
As slavery died for the greater good of America, and the movement for equality sputtered to life, the white woman was on the cover of every American magazine. She was the dazzling jewel on every movie screen, the glory of every commercial and television show. Jill Scott
jewels laughing language
Now and again he spoke to those that served him and thanked them in their own language. They smiled at him and said laughing: 'Here is a jewel among hobbits! J. R. R. Tolkien
jewels color jewelry
These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of. George Eliot
jewels vanity stupidity
The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them. What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold "precious," and earth and soil "base"? Galileo Galilei
jewels garbage-cans important
Product procedure...must securely protect the crown jewels, but, equally important, it must eschew building high fences around the garbage cans. Fred Brooks
jewels rich enjoy
I enjoy how women dressed in the 1920s with the shimmering jewels and rich feathers. Janelle Monae
jewels lakes hatred
Her hatred glittered irresistibly. I could see it, the jewel, it was sapphire, it was the cold lakes of Norway. Janet Fitch
jewels differences listening
Since I didn't have any kind of formal training, it didn't make any difference to me if I was listening to Lightnin' Slim, or a vocal group called the Jewels ... , or Webern, or Varèse, or Stravinsky. To me it was all good music. Frank Zappa
jewels differences space
Our world hangs like a magnificent jewel in the vastness of space. Every one of us is a part of that jewel. A facet of that jewel. And in the perspective of infinity, our differences are infinitesimal. Fred Rogers
jewels world pearls
The rarest things in the world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls. [Fr., Apres l'esprit de discernement, ce qu'il y a au monde de plus rare, ce sont les diamants et les perles.] Jean de la Bruyere
jewels tortoises shells
A gigantic tortoise with a jewel-encrusted shell was glittering near the window. J. K. Rowling
jewels literature pearls
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls. Honore de Balzac
jewels consistency too-much
Consistency is a jewel, but too much jewelry is vulgar. Evan Esar