Top 140 Gems Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on April 14, 2025.
Gems, in fact, are a species of mineral flowers; they are the blossoms of the dark, hard mine; and what they want in perfume, they make up in durability.
There are enough painful experiences that go along with this trip that it keeps me in reality. It ain't all gems and roses.
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind.
During the summer, Screen Gems launched the New Monkees, which miserably failed I understand. I never saw it.
Precious gems are profoundly buried in the earth and can only be extracted at the expense of great labor.
Some gems for the greatest of them all
Hindu Dharma is like a boundless ocean teeming with priceless gems. The deeper you dive the more treasures you find.
One of the brightest gems in the New England weather is the dazzling uncertainty of it.
I was mad at Screen Gems, but I'm not mad at them anymore.
Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her hand she bore.
The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems.
Rich and various gems inlay The unadorned bosom of the deep.
Gold and precious gems are, in many places, the one form of wealth a woman can use to protect and enhance herself within the elaborate structure of patriarchy.
Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn't give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn't seem right.
There is a hill beside the silver Thames, Shady with birch and beech and odorous pine; And brilliant underfoot with thousand gems, Steeply the thickets to his floods decline.
I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it.
Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.
He's become like that briefcase in the ground-full of gems yet void of light, so nothing sparkles, nothing shines.
It's how you define yourself. It's not Nirvana or Pearl Jam: it's, 'Do you watch 'Portlandia' or 'Amy Schumer'?' It relates to a specific sense of humor. And, 'Do you know the hidden gems?' Like, if you knew the Pixies in the '80s.
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.
You don't need to go to Rome, Prague or Vienna to find wonderful architecture, amazing stories and suprising, hidden gems.
Words can travel thousands of miles. May my words create mutual understanding and love. May they be as beautiful as gems, as lovely as flowers.
There are little gems all around us that can hold glimmers of inspiration.
Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses.
Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.
There are gems of thought that are ageless and eternal.
I swear I pick up little gems from every artist that I work with. That's why I'm so appreciative that I've been able to be a songwriter first.
I admire how Tarantino finds music that's semifamiliar and not famous: undiscovered gems.
These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
I think Tahoe is one of the hidden gems in the country, and I've played a lot of golf around the country. You can't beat the smells and the clean air and just the way it makes you feel.
Sometimes the darkest challenges, the most difficult lessons, hold the greatest gems of light.
I try to sprinkle a little gems and jewels in the music that people could use in their own life.
As a halfway decent college DJ, I had been exposed to some great progressive stuff and always took pride in unearthing musical gems.
Declare this smite time, extracting precious gems and wholly hours you share to fruitcake a friend so dear.
Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
There is strength deep bedded in our hearts, of which we reck but little till the shafts of heaven have pierced its fragile dwelling. Must not earth be rent before her gems are found?
We should not feel pride in our charity, austerity, valour, scriptural knowledge, modestyandmorality for the world is full of the rarest gems.
I like to introduce a few lost gems when I can to fellow word-lovers, and would genuinely love some of them to make a comeback.
Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach.
Regard man as a mine rich in gems of inestimable value. Education can, alone, cause it to reveal its treasures, and enable mankind to benefit there from.
Misfortune sprinkles ashes on the head of the man, but falls like dew on the heart of the woman, and brings forth [gems] of strength of which she herself had no conscious possession.
With reality TV, sometimes it's amazing chemistry and you get these gems that turn out to be everything you hoped, and the camera loves them and they just blossom on the show. And then sometimes it's not all you envision.
In what way, or by what manner of working, God changes a soul from evil to good, how He impregnates the barren rock--the priceless gems and gold--is to the human mind an impenetrable mystery, in all cases alike.
The pearl is the queen of gems and the gem of queens.
And these gems of Heav'n, her starry train.
The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.
I haggle with French grannies over their old knick-knacks and walk away with some real gems.
Let us carve gems out of our stony hearts and let them light our path to love.
O Word of God incarnate . . .
It is the golden casket
Where gems of truth are stored;
It is the heaven-drawn picture
Of Thee, the Living Word.
To write a blues song
is to regiment riots
and pluck gems from graves.
Sometimes reactions can be quite surprising: readers like things that you, the author, feel you've barely gotten away with; or they dislike one of the parts you secretly think is one of your little gems.
Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.
The sacred books of all the world are worthless dross and common stones compared with Shakespeare's glittering gold and gleaming gems.
In retrospect it always seems to work out that you can look back on something that was a disaster and find some gems in there.
While I'm sure some millennials are concerned with the ethical issues involved in mining for diamonds, the main reason they steer clear of the gems is because, well, they're a dumb investment.
There are three gems upon this earth; food, water, and pleasing words - fools (mudhas) consider pieces of rocks as gems.
I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed.
December drops no weak, relenting tear, By our fond summer sympathies ensnared; Nor from the perfect circle of the year Can even winter's crystal gems be spared.
The ad business has some of the great artists, but because there are so many, its hard to determine the true gems.
Sometimes it feels like it hurts when you make a big purchase, so I really believe that the more expensive things should be gems that you keep in your closet, not trends.
