Quotes and Sayings About Pearls

Pearl Harbor is strenuously respectful of contemporary sensitivities, sometimes at the cost of accuracy.
-- A. O. Scott

#History #Cost #Pearls

After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis.
-- Alexander Dubcek

#War #Axes #Pearls

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 Pirlo

#Lessons #Pearls #Littles

Does love always form, like a pearl, around the hardened bits of life?
-- Andrew Sean Greer

#Doe #Pearls #Form

Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl?
-- Anna Funder

#Past #Grit #Pearls

Ethnic stereotypes are misshapen pearls, sometimes with a sandy grain of truth at their center. ... but they ignore complexity, change, and individuality.
-- Anna Quindlen

#Individuality #Pearls #Sometimes

Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated.
-- Barry Humphries

#Nature #Pearls #Harbors

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

#Important #Culture #Pearls

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

#Wisdom #Advice #Pearls

The pearl on my beloved's neck, Afflicted sore the oyster!
-- Bhartrhari

#Sacrifice #Oysters #Pearls

Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.
-- Bill Vaughan

#Dark #Teeth #Pearls

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

#Self #Each Day #Pearls

Go then, a starveling girl With no perfume or pearls, Only your nudity O my beauty!
-- Charles Baudelaire

#Girl #Pearls #Nudity

For in my nature I quested for beauty, but God, God hath sent me to sea for pearls.
-- Christopher Smart

#Sea #Pearls

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 Nagumo

#War #Navy #Pearls

I saw the film Pearl Harbour and it made me wish that the Japanese had bombed Hollywood instead!
-- Clive James

#Wish #Hollywood #Pearls

A women needs ropes and ropes of pearls.
-- Coco Chanel

#Needs #Rope #Pearls

I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls.
-- Daphne du Maurier

#Black #Wish #Pearls

Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine.
-- Desiderius Erasmus

#Gold #Pearls #Sand

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

#Government #Warning #Pearls

Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.
-- Eddie Vedder

#Marketing #Jam #Pearls

One pearl is better than a whole necklace of potatoes.
-- Etienne Decroux

#Necklaces #Pearls #Potatoes

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
-- Federico Fellini

#Art #Oysters #Pearls

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 Billingsley

#Mind #Pearls #Fireworks

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

#Waiting #Age #Pearls

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

#Real #Pearls #About Yourself

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

#Criticism #Nuggets #Pearls

The pearl is the queen of gems and the gem of queens.
-- Grace Kelly

#Queens #Pearls #Gems

A woman needs ropes and ropes of pearls.
-- Grace Kelly

#Needs #Rope #Pearls

With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
-- Gwendolyn Brooks

#Opal #Pearls #Milk