Pearls Quotes - Page 12

• My life was over, finished, and I’d never seen Pearl Jam play live

  Kristen Ashley

  Play, Jam, Finished

  Kristen Ashley (2011). “Rock Chick”, p.10, Rock Chick LLC

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• 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

  Sea, Paradise, Satan

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• Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best
  work came out of it.

  Joni Mitchell

  Sand, Best Work

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• Were the diver to think on the jaws of the shark, he would never lay hands on the precious pearl.

  Saadi

  Fear, Thinking, Sharks

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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 Bharara

  Bells, Next, Alarms

  "Congress' Profound Failure on Cybersecurity". abcnews.go.com. August 11, 2012.

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• The boy in the pearl gray suit could have been Jane's twin. His hair was darker, and his lips were not as full, but he was just as lovely.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Boys, Hair, Lovely

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• On June 14, 1998, I pushed off under quiet gray skies from Nags Head, N.C, in the American Pearl, a 23 foot long boat made of plywood and fiberglass. I planned to row 3,637 miles across the North Atlantic to France. I was alone. There were no chase vessels. No one planned to drop food or equipment to me along the way. The physical goal was easy to explain: I was attempting to do something no American and no woman had ever done - to row solo across an ocean.

  Tori Murden

  Ocean, June, Sky

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• U.S. has lost a battle more important and greater than Pearl Harbor.

  Edward Teller

  Future, Important, Battle

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• From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor.

  Jerry Della Femina

  Advertising, Wonderful, Harbors

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• A new word. Bright with possibilities. A flawless pearl to turn over and over in my hand, then put away for safekeeping.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Hands, Flawless, Possibility

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “A Gathering Light”, p.13, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Somewhere along the line I knew there'd be girls, visions, everything; somewhere along the line the pearl would be handed to me.

  Jack Kerouac

  Girl, Vision, Would Be

  Jack Kerouac (1995). “The Portable Jack Kerouac”, Viking Adult

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• I had a question. "Why does the name Pearl Harbor sound so familiar?" The lieutenant colonel's eyes narrowed. "Pearl Harbor is the most famous U.S. military base in the world," he said crisply. "It's the only place on U.S. soil that has been attacked in a wars, since the Revolutionary War." None of this was ringing a bell, but you already know I'm totally uneducated. Gazzy leaned over to whisper, "It was a movie with Ben Affleck." Ah. Now I remembered.

  James Patterson

  Military, War, Eye

  James Patterson (2009). “Maximum Ride: Max”, p.137, Random House

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• You can rake the muck this way, rake the muck that way-- it will always be muck. Have I sinned or have I not sinned? In the time I am brooding over it, I could be stringing pearls for the delight of Heaven

  Martin Buber

  Heaven, Rakes, Delight

  Martin Buber (2013). “Tales of the Hasidim”, p.817, Schocken

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• The artist is the child in the popular fable, every one of whose tears was a pearl.

  Heinrich Heine

  Children, Artist, Suffering

  Heinrich Heine (1873). “Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts”, p.119

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• 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

  Musician, Jam, Radio

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• After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor.

  Jack Adams

  Fog, Battle, Week

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

  Christopher Smart

  Sea

  'Jubilate Agno' Fragment B, l. 30

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• Personality is that which is most intimate to me—that by which I must act out my life. It is that by which I belong to man, that by which I amable to reach after God; and He has given to me this pearl of great  price. It is an immortal treasure; it is mine, it is His, and no man shall pluck it out of His hand.

  Hugh Reginald Haweis

  Men, Hands, Personality

  Hugh Reginald Haweis (1875). “Speech in Season”, p.307

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• Sirens wailed; the revolution had come to Harrisonville. Blood was flowing on Pearl Street.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Blood, Sirens, Revolution

  Joe Eszterhas (1974). “Charlie Simpson's Apocalypse”

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• After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis.

  Alexander Dubcek

  War, Axes, Tides

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• I have seen the sun break through
  to illuminate a small field
  for a while, and gone my way
  and forgotten it. But that was the pearl
  of great price, the one field that had
  treasure in it. I realize now
  that I must give all that I have
  to possess it. Life is not hurrying
  on to a receeding future, nor hankering after
  an imagined past. It is the turning
  aside like Moses to the miracle
  of the lit bush, to a brightness
  that seemed as transitory as your youth
  once, but is the eternity that awaits you.

  R. S. Thomas

  Past, Break Through, Giving

  R.S. Thomas (2012). “R. S. Thomas: Everyman Poetry: Everyman's Poetry”, p.96, Hachette UK

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• A pearl, even if it is cast down into the mud, is not despised. And if one covers it with balsam, it does not
  become more valuable. But it is always valuable to its owner.
  It is the same with the Sons of God: wherever They may be, They are still of value to Their Father.

  Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

  Love, Father, Son

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• He called her: mother of pearl, barley woman, rice provider, millet basket, corn maid, flax princess, all-maker, weef She called him: fawn, roebuck, stag, courage, thunderman, all-in-green, mountain strider, keeper of forests, my-love-rides

  Judy Grahn

  Mother, Husband, Princess

  Judy Grahn (1982). “The queen of wands: poetry”

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• We can see now that we Americans were caught unprepared, because we were ordinary human beings, following the best advice we had at the time. No one would have guessed in 1941 that we would be attacked in such an unsportsmanlike manner as we were. No one could have visualized Pearl Harbor, either out there or in Washington. But if we had known then what we know now, we would have expected an attack in 1941.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Time, Advice, Ordinary

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1950). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1944-1945, Volume 13”, p.214, Best Books on

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• And we laughed, at the world. They can have their diamonds, And we'll have our pearls

  Jill Sobule

  Laughter, World, Diamond

  Song: I Kissed a Girl, Album: Jill Sobule, 1995

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