quotes about Pearls
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Pearl Harbor is strenuously respectful of contemporary sensitivities, sometimes at the cost of accuracy.
-- A. O. Scott -
After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis.
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There are always lessons to be found in the darkest moments. It's a moral obligation to dig deep and find that little glimmer of hope or pearl of wisdom.
-- Andrea PirloSource : "ANDREA PIRLO EXCLUSIVE: I almost quit after losing to Liverpool in the Champions League final, Ferguson was a purple-nosed boss of 'battleship', how I nearly won the double at Chelsea... and why Hodgson called me a '****head'". www.dailymail.co.uk. April 14, 2014.
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Does love always form, like a pearl, around the hardened bits of life?
-- Andrew Sean Greer -
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Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl?
-- Anna FunderSource : Anna Funder (2011). “Stasiland: Stories From Behind The Berlin Wall”, p.162, Granta Books
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Ethnic stereotypes are misshapen pearls, sometimes with a sandy grain of truth at their center. ... but they ignore complexity, change, and individuality.
-- Anna Quindlen -
Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated.
-- Barry Humphries -
Do be true to yourself, whether it's bad doesn't matter. The important thing - you have to copy while you're studying. And culture is - each of us - is like one pearl added to another to make a chain. We each contribute to the other. And that's all right. But once you're on your own, do that which comes from within. And I feel this very strongly.
-- Beatrice Wood -
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Speakers have been showering us with pearls of wisdom for centuries, and if all of their valuable advice were laid end to end, it would still be just as good as new. Very little of it has ever been used.
-- Benjamin Franklin Fairless -
The pearl on my beloved's neck, Afflicted sore the oyster!
-- Bhartrhari -
Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.
-- Bill Vaughan -
My mandalas were cryptograms concerning the state of the self which was presented to me anew each day...I guarded them like precious pearls....It became increasingly plain to me that the mandala is the center. It is the exponent of all paths. It is the path to the center, to individuation.
-- Carl Jung -
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Go then, a starveling girl With no perfume or pearls, Only your nudity O my beauty!
-- Charles Baudelaire -
For in my nature I quested for beauty, but God, God hath sent me to sea for pearls.
-- Christopher SmartSource : 'Jubilate Agno' Fragment B, l. 30
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The success of our surprise attack on Pearl Harbor will prove to be the Waterloo of the war to follow. For this reason the Imperial Navy is massing the cream of its strength in ships and planes to assure success.
-- Chuichi NagumoSource : "American Caesar". Book by William Manchester, p. 195, 1978.
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I saw the film Pearl Harbour and it made me wish that the Japanese had bombed Hollywood instead!
-- Clive James -
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I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls.
-- Daphne du MaurierSource : Daphne Du Maurier (2012). “Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4: Rebecca; My Cousin Rachel”, p.37, Hachette UK
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Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine.
-- Desiderius Erasmus -
The parallels between 9/11 and Pearl Harbor are striking. In each instance there were warning signs before the attack, and in each instance our government failed to connect the dots.
-- Diane Watson -
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Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.
-- Eddie Vedder -
One pearl is better than a whole necklace of potatoes.
-- Etienne Decroux -
All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
-- Federico Fellini -
There are no preconditions for jealousy. You don't have to be right, you don't have to be reasonable. Take Othello. He was neither right nor reasonable, and Desdemona ended up dead. I wouldn't mind Leanne ending up dead. I wouldn't mind exploding her into fireworks of peacock and pearl.
-- Franny BillingsleySource : Franny Billingsley (2011). “Chime”, p.113, Penguin
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We, as a nation, cannot wait for the Pearl Harbor of the information age. We must increase our vigilance to tackle this problem before we are hit with a surprise attack.
-- Fred Thompson -
I’m not afraid of the real truth. There is nothing you can tell me about yourself that is going to make me clutch my pearls.
-- Gabrielle Hamilton -
I hold with the old-fashioned criticism that Browning is not really a poet, that he has all the gifts but the one needful and the pearls without the string; rather one should say raw nuggets and rough diamonds.
-- Gerard Manley Hopkins -
The pearl is the queen of gems and the gem of queens.
-- Grace Kelly -
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
-- Gwendolyn Brooks -
I throw raps that attacks like the Japs at Pearl Harbor
-- GZASource : Song: Living In The World Today
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Though face and form alter with the years, I hold fast to the pearl of my mind.
-- Hanshan -
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As I came down the Highgate Hill, The Highgate Hill, the Highgate Hill, As I came down the Highgate Hill I met the sun's bravado, And saw below me, fold on fold, Grey to pearl and pearl to gold, This London like a land of old, The land of Eldorado.
-- Henry Howarth BashfordSource : "Romances (London)". Book by Henry Howarth Bashford, 1917.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
-- Honore de Balzac -
Satan rejoiced when Adam (peace be upon him) came out of Paradise, but he did not know that when a diver sinks into the sea, he collects pearls and then rises again.
-- Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya -
The rich pearl of life, Soon moulders in its blackened urn, the tomb.
-- Isaac McLellanSource : Isaac McLellan (1830). “The Fall of the Indian: With Other Poems”, p.23
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After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor.
-- Jack Adams -
In January of 1995, my family and I moved to Seattle. Pearl Jam did the first of their live radio broadcasts, Monkey Wrench Radio, along with many other Seattle musicians.
-- Jack Irons -
I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.
-- Jack Irons -
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Pearl rolled a tiny pink speck in her fingers, possibly part of Rose's new leg that I'd tried so hard to make a good match. Pearl laughed and flicked it away as if it was snot out of her nose. I suddenly couldn't stand it. I rushed at her.She saw I wasn't playing around. She ran for it but I caught up with her along the landing. I punched her hard in the chest and she staggered back wards - back and back, and then she wobbled and went right over, down the stairs.
-- Jacqueline Wilson -
We follow a path of discovery, strung like pearls on a thread of curiosity, lending richness to our work.
-- James Krenov -
And the poorest twig on the elm-tree was ridged inch deep with pearl.
-- James Russell Lowell -
It's just a matter of time before we have a cyber Pearl Harbor.
-- Jamie Gorelick -
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The pearls weren't really white, they were a warm oyster beige, with little knots in between so if they broke, you only lost one. I wished my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.
-- Janet Fitch -
A new word. Bright with possibilities. A flawless pearl to turn over and over in my hand, then put away for safekeeping.
-- Jennifer Donnelly -
Everybody sat around thinking about Panasonic, the Japanese electronics account. Finally I decided, what the hell, I'll throw a line to loosen them up. The headline is, the headline is: From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor.
-- Jerry Della FeminaSource : "From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor". Book by Jerry Della Femina, 1970.
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From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor.
-- Jerry Della Femina -
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And we laughed, at the world. They can have their diamonds, And we'll have our pearls
-- Jill SobuleSource : Song: I Kissed a Girl, Album: Jill Sobule, 1995
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The crisis of our diminishing water resources is just as severe (if less obviously immediate) as any wartime crisis we have ever faced. Our survival is just as much at stake as it was at the time of Pearl Harbor, or the Argonne, or Gettysburg, or Saratoga.
-- Jim WrightSource : Jim Wright (1966). “The Coming Water Famine”, New York : Coward-McCann
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Sirens wailed; the revolution had come to Harrisonville. Blood was flowing on Pearl Street.
-- Joe Eszterhas -
I use Pearl Eliminator Pedals and I swear by them.
-- Joey Jordison -
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Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no!
-- John BelushiSource : "Fictional character: John Blutarsky (Bluto)". "Animal House", www.imdb.com. July 27, 1978.
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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
-- John DrydenSource : 'All for Love' (1678) prologue
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After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, the United States would enter, in a formal way, what had been up to that date strictly a European conflict. Marcus Garvey's prophecy about the European scramble to maintain dominance over the whole world was now a reality.
-- John Henrik Clarke -
It is the hour of pearl—the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself.
-- John Steinbeck -
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It has never demonstrated any desire to provide humane treatment to captured Americans. If anything, the murders of Nicholas Berg and Daniel Pearl declare al Qaeda's intentions to kill even innocent civilian prisoners.
-- John Yoo -
Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.
-- Joni Mitchell -
There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowels of the earth, many a fair pearl laid up in the bosom of the sea, that never was seen, nor never shall be.
-- Joseph Hall -
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The pearl whose possession separates man from beast, the pearl which is the rarest find - the best among virtues - is forgiveness.
-- Kedar Joshi -
Like a layer on a pearl, you can't specifically identify the irritant, the moment of the irritant, but at the end of the day, you know you have a pearl.
-- Ken Burns -
Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.
-- Kenneth Tynan -
The living carry us inside them like pearls. We survive only so long as they remember us.
-- Kevin BrockmeierSource : Kevin Brockmeier (2006). “The Brief History of the Dead: A Novel”, p.5, Vintage
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Giddy grasshopper Take care...do not leap and crush These pearls of dewdrop
-- Kobayashi Issa -
My life was over, finished, and I’d never seen Pearl Jam play live
-- Kristen Ashley -
The big news, delicious tidbits, pearls of wisdom -- nicely packaged, constantly updated... What political junkie could ask for more?
-- Larry Sabato -
The potential for the next Pearl Harbor could very well be a cyber-attack,
-- Leon PanettaSource : "CIA Director Leon Panetta Warns of Possible Cyber-Pearl Harbor" by Jason Ryan, abcnews.go.com. February 11, 2011.
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I must be besotted,†he said evenly. “I have the imbecilic idea that you’re the prettiest girl I’ve ever seen. Except for your coiffure,†he added, with a disgusted glance at the coils and plumes and pearls. “That is ghastly.†She scowled. “Your romantic effusions leave me breathless.
-- Loretta Chase -
Youth is slipping, dripping, pearl on pearl, away.
-- Louise Imogen Guiney -
I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey.
-- Mahalia Jackson -
That's what I love about music...all these banalities suddenly turn into these beautiful, effervescent pearls.
-- Mark Ruffalo -
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People don't want to be bothered, if they're not being pressured to change. You have to push people. You have to be the agitator that makes the pearl.
-- Marlo Thomas -
Can any of us even imagine, after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt suggesting we negotiate a resolution or that we could simply prosecute those involved? Of course it is unimaginable. We are right to be in the Middle East, and we are right to treat this as the war it is.
-- Marsha Blackburn -
Frog or pearl, life hid something at the bottom of the cup.
-- Mary ButtsSource : Mary Butts (1998). “Ashe of Rings, and Other Writings”, McPherson & Company
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Every prop, every shot, every pearl that rolled across the floor was exactly how I wanted it to be.
-- Melissa Joan Hart -
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Everybody knows about Pearl Harbor. The thing that really fascinated me is that through this tragedy there was this amazing American heroism.
-- Michael Bay -
A lot of directors don't want the pressure of a movie the size of Pearl Harbor. But I love it. I thrive on it.
-- Michael Bay -
Montreal, this wonderful town… Pearl of Canada, Pearl of the world.
-- Mikhail Gorbachev -
All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty.
-- Mitch DanielsSource : Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.
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Dive into the sea of thought, and find there pearls beyond price.
-- Moses ibn Ezra -
Your body is sacred. You’re far more precious than diamonds and pearls, and you should be covered too.
-- Muhammad Ali -
I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.
-- Nate Ruess -
But she named the infant "Pearl," as being of great price-purchased with all she had-her mother's only treasure!
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne -
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Pearls ... have a way of dying when separated from their owner.
-- Nina Berberova -
Men have to have heroes, but no man can ever be as big as the need, and so a legend grows around a grain of truth, like a pearl.
-- Peter S. Beagle -
If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl.
-- Peter Sarsgaard -
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The alarm bells sound regularly: cybergeddon; the next Pearl Harbor; one of the greatest existential threats facing the United States. With increasing frequency, these are the grave terms officials invoke about the menace of cybercrime - and they're not understating the threat.
-- Preet BhararaSource : "Congress' Profound Failure on Cybersecurity". abcnews.go.com. August 11, 2012.
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Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster.
-- Randall Jarrell -
I think history is continuous. It doesn't begin or end on Pearl Harbor Day or the day Lyndon Johnson withdraws from the presidency or on 9/11. You have to learn from the past but not be imprisoned by it. You need to take counsel of history but never be imprisoned by it.
-- Richard HolbrookeSource : "Office of the Historian Hosts Conference on the American Experience in Southeast Asia". 2009-2017.state.gov. September 29, 2010.
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God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you, too.
-- Rick Warren -
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Whatever pearl you seek, look for the pearl within the pearl!
-- Rumi -
A pearl goes up for auction. No one has enough, so the pearl buys itself.
-- Rumi -
McDonalds in Tokyo is a terrible revenge for Pearl Harbor.
-- S. I. Hayakawa -
I found the pearl of the Orient slightly less exciting than a rainy Sunday evening in Rochester.
-- S. J. Perelman -
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Sacredness grew like a pearl, sometimes around the most unlikely bits of grit.
-- S.M. StirlingSource : S. M. Stirling (2012). “Lord of Mountains: A Novel of the Change”, p.23, Penguin
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To the seeker after pearls, silence is a speaking argument, for no breath comes forth from the diver of the sea.
-- Saib Tabrizi -
All religions are precious pearls strung on the golden thread of divinity.
-- Samael Aun Weor -
Just like at Hirojima, when Pearl Harbor bombed the Germans!
-- Scott Steiner -