Jackie Kennedy
First Lady
"Pearls are always appropriate."
Pearls quotes
Pearls
153 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Honore de Balzac
Novelist
"In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls."
Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"Whatever pearl you seek, look for the pearl within the pearl!"
Coco Chanel
Fashion Designer
"A women needs ropes and ropes of pearls."
Oscar Wilde
Writer
"The moon in her chariot of pearl"
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"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."
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"What strikes the oyster shell doesn't damage the pearl."
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"Whenever sorrow comes, be kind to it. For God has placed a pearl in sorrow’s hand."
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"Age before beauty, and pearls before swine."
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"[After she and Clare Boothe Luce met in a doorway and the latter said, 'Age before beauty':] Pearls before swine."
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"From a grain of sand in the Pearl comes."
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"It is the hour of pearl—the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself."
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"Dive into the sea of thought, and find there pearls beyond price."
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"For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine."
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"We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country."
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"Now, see there. Just because I'm wearing my Super-Dike sweatshirt, you think I'm a lesbian. I guess if I were wearing a string of pearls, you'd think I was an oyster."
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"I am in every religion as the thread through a string of pearls. Wherever thou seest extraordinary holiness and extraordinary power raising and purifying humanity, know thou that I am there."
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"A pearl goes up for auction. No one has enough, so the pearl buys itself."
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"But she named the infant "Pearl," as being of great price-purchased with all she had-her mother's only treasure!"
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"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."
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"Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great."
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"And the poorest twig on the elm-tree was ridged inch deep with pearl."
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"Your body is sacred. You’re far more precious than diamonds and pearls, and you should be covered too."
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"I would love to be erased from our association with Pearl Jam or the Nymphs and other first time offenders."
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"It is no more easy to make a good picture than it is to find a diamond or a pearl. It means trouble and you risk your life for it."
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