Top 142 Beads Quotes & Sayings

Bright beads of red are rising through the ink, Hearts-blood bubbles smearing out into the black stream

I think of myself, basically, as a very practical person in black bugle beads.

We are all beads strung together on the same thread of love.

The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place.

Dance is such a wonderful, universal expression, even if the bugle beads are wrong.

Granny beads are what they're called when a grandma works the garden all day - you always see them - they have a handkerchief around their neck with a lot of dust on them, and then the sweat will go down and make these black beads of sweat and dirt around their neck. And that's what they call granny beads.

Loyalty to God is alone fundamental. Feelings, words, deeds, must be beads strung on the string of duty.

Many of our tribe went to the cliff each night to count the number killed during the day. They counted the dead otter and thought of the beads and other things that each pelt meant. But I never went to the cove and whenever I saw the hunters with their long spears skimming over the water, I was angry, for these animals were my friends. It was fun to see them playing or sunning themselves among the kelp. It more fun than the thought of beads to wear around my neck.

Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.

On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels . . .

Dark furrow lines grid the snow, punctuated by orange abacus beads of pumpkins - now the crows own the field.

There's no fun in a bag if it's not kicked around, so that it looks as if the cat's been sitting on it-and it usually has. The cat may even be in it! I always put on stickers and beads and worry beads. You can get them from Greece, Israel, Palestine-from anywhere in the world. I always hang things on my bags because I don't like them looking like everyone else's.

I truly hope readers learn to believe in their imaginations and their ability to shape their own lives. That's what 'The Girl Who Smiled Beads' means to me.

I was going to be a teacher and improve the world. Teach people with hooks for hands to fingerpaint, and teach bums to draw happy faces on beads.

The mark of the Christian is the willingness to look for the Divine in the flesh of a babe in a crib, the continuing Christ under the appearance of bread on an altar, and a meditation and a prayer on a string of beads

The hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops of rain.

The beads around my neck [at Olympics in 1968] indicated that there were so many Blacks throughout the history of this country that have been maimed and killed by way of hangings.

There are a lot of recent pics of me rocking silk strings of beads. They're made by survivors of the sex trade in Cambodia who were rescued by one of the organizations I support.

... And drinking neat liquor from the bottle, with all my long hair and my shirt undone and my beads, not so much the lizard king, more a gecko duchess, I fitted in nicely with their idea of what a creative person should be.

When I was a kid, I was trendier. I'd wear anything. I was in love beads and platforms...

Friendship, awareness, happiness, all of the arts of the good life, are brilliant beads strung on the golden cord of love.

Connie drove a silver Camry with rosary beads hanging from her rearview mirror and a Smith& Wesson stuck under the seat. No matter whatwent down, Connie was covered.

Chanting Hare Krishna is really the same sort of thing as meditation, but I think it has a quicker effect. I mean, even if you put your beads down, you can still say the mantra or sing it without actually keeping track on your beads.

I was pleasantly surprised to find out that pirates did wear eye patches and have peg legs and have brightly colored beads. I never knew what the beads were for. They really were for frightening and terrifying their prey.

You know, if I cleaned out my backpack, which I don't really use anymore, I'd find a bunch of beads. I have a bunch of little girl cousins, they used to paint my toenails and stuff, and they'd make beaded bracelets and there are so many beads everywhere. It's kinda embarrassing.

Our forebears are deserving of tribute for one indisputable reason, if for no other: without them we should not be here. Let us recognize that we are not the ultimate triumph but rather we are beads on a string. Let us behave with decency to the beads that were strung before us and hope modestly that the beads that come after us will not hold us of no account simply because we are dead.

When holy and devout religious men are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence; so sweet is zealous contemplation.

And her voice is a string of colored beads, Or steps leading into the sea.

Should you desire the great tranquility prepare to sweat white beads.

In the early Seventies, I had shoulder-length hair, bell-bottom pants, love beads and shirts that laced up at the front. But then I smartened up.

I always pray. I'm quite religious. I've had the beads since I can remember.

I belong to no race nor time. I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads.

When I need to get away from my desk, I tend to take walks or go places. I also like to bead - working with beads to make jewellery.

Wearing love beads and touting our sincerity will not make this a safer world.

These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow.

The only thing I wish I had kept were all the peace beads, because in the 1960s people made these and hung them at protests and it was a wonderful thing.

slowly the pale dew-beads of light lapped up from flowers can thicken, darken to gold: honey of the human.

One night I looked down and my rosary beads were glowing. And I realized that I did not want to see the blessed Virgin - I was terrified.

Day is like day as two beads in a rosary, unless changes of weather form the only variety.

Then, when people saw you strolling around at high noon holding your rosary beads, they’d think, ‘Well, that can’t be a vampire.

Where there is no style, there is in effect no point of view. There is, essentially, no anger, no conviction, no self. Style is opinion, hung washing, the caliber of a bullet, teething beads.

The Shobogenzo is an enormous work that captures the vastness of Dogen's realization. Kaz, over many years, threaded the beads of these many fascicles into a great mala of wisdom.

Three things to never leave home without: your keys, birdseed for the birds, and your mala beads to chant through difficulties.

People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep no beads for reckoning the number of idle words they speak.

Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.

There's no fun in a bag if it's not kicked around so that it looks as if the cat's been sitting on it - and it usually has. The cat may even be in it! I always put on stickers and beads and worry beads. You can get them from Greece, Israel, Palestine - from anywhere in the world.

The next person that tells me I'm not religious, I'm going to shove my rosary beads up their ass.

Irish Catholics are more interested in the rosary beads than in the rosary.

Reading a text is more like tracing this process of constant flickering than it is like counting the beads on a necklace.

Creativity is part sweat - not just beads of it, but sometimes buckets.

Meditation doesn't have to be complicated. What I do is about as simple as you can get. You could just count the beads, one, two, three, with your eyes closed or open, whatever makes you happy.

How guilt refined the methods of self-torture, threading the beads of detail into an eternal loop, a rosary to be fingered for a lifetime.

There is nothing worse than silence, strung like heavy beads on too delicate a conversation.

It's such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string — when one slips off, all the rest follow.

How one deals with the death of a loved one is a highly personalized affair. Some people weep for days; others take a hike in the woods or count rosary beads.

As for the bracelet Mom wore to the funeral, what I did was I converted Dad’s last voice message into Morse code, and I used sky-blue beads for silence, maroon beads for breaks between letters, violet beads for breaks between words, and long and short pieces of string between the beads for long and short beeps, which are actually called blips, I think, or something. Dad would have known.

When I was a kid, I was trendier. I'd wear anything. I was in love beads and platforms.

The turning of the charkha in a lifeless way will be like the turning of the beads of the rosary with a wandering mind turned away from God.

I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told.

Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads Let love through good deeds show.