Top 463 Pearl Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.
Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated.
Men have to have heroes, but no man can ever be as big as the need, and so a legend grows around a grain of truth, like a pearl.
As costly as it was in the lives of our men and women in uniform, in military assets, and in esteem and pride, Pearl Harbor was a watershed moment for America.
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.
When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.
I visited Minnie Pearl's home down in Nashville, and I liked it so much I asked the same man to help fix up my place.
What tender force, what dignity divine, what virtue consecrating every feature; around that neck what dross are gold and pearl!
Let the splendor of diamond, pearl and ruby vanish? Only let this one teardrop, this Taj Mahal, glisten spotlessly bright on the cheek of time, forever and ever.
When friends come over from Europe, they think it's going to be rainy in Seattle but it's beautiful. It's a hidden pearl. And people here respect your private life.
Like falling stars from the universe we are hurled Down through the long loneliness of the world Until we behold the pain, become the pearl
My heart resembles the ocean; has storm, and ebb and flow; and many a beautiful pearl lies hid in its depths below.
In soap, fatty acids made from boiling pork bone fat are used as a hardening agent, but also for giving it a pearl-like effect.
Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
That knave preserves the pearl in his purse who considers all people purse-cuts.
No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?
A life all turbulence and noise may seem To him that leads it wise and to be praised, But wisdom is a pearl with most success Sought in still waters.
Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl
Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for more, and lose better things in struggling for them.
'Ten' by Pearl Jam is still by far one of my favorite albums and is a big part of what inspired me to learn guitar.
My sleeping pill is white.
It is a splendid pearl;
it floats me out of myself,
my stung skin as alien
as a loose bolt of cloth.
How desirable is this simplicity! Who will give it to me? I will quit all else; it is the pearl of great price.
Like the appearance of silver in mother of pearl, the world seems real until the Self, the underlying reality, is realized.
For all the failures of naval, air and army defense, the men who died at Pearl Harbor and in the Philippines would not die in vain.
Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor.
I used to be obsessed with Pearl Jam, but I love having pink hair and kind of looking like a Barbie.
Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
In literature there was always an epiphany - a tingling moment, sometimes buried - the pearl around which the whole work formed.
Even if Pearl S. Buck hadn't spent most of her life in China, she'd have every right to write about it.
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.
With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, 'Can I sing this part,' or, 'I want to play guitar.'
The Taj Mahal appears like a perfect pearl on an azure ground. The effect is such I have never experienced from any work of art.
I was surprised recently to find a book called "Poetry in Persons" that's coming out about visit to poets to a class that Pearl London gave.
Everybody knows about Pearl Harbor. The thing that really fascinated me is that through this tragedy there was this amazing American heroism.
Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase.
[F]or contemporary judgment does not recognize that much depth of soul is needed to light up the picture drawn from contemptible life and elevate it into a pearl of creation.
I know of the leafy paths that the witches take
Who come with their crowns of pearl and their spindles of wool,
And their secret smile, out of the depths of the lake.
The Japanese, implementing a complex, long-term, and ultimately successful strategy to dominate the U S consumer-electronics market, attacked Pearl Harbor.
As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.
She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.
People don't want to be bothered, if they're not being pressured to change. You have to push people. You have to be the agitator that makes the pearl.
Pearl Jam doesn't just sing about issues they care about. These guys walk it like they talk it.
It must be very strange to live in the world of Willie Nelson or Bruce Springsteen or Pearl Jam. I don't know what kind of handle they have on their own loss of talent.
I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.
I would love to be erased from our association with Pearl Jam or the Nymphs and other first time offenders.
This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms the diseased slums of a broken heart into a palace made of psalms and gold.
I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
When I began writing novels, I read Aristotle to learn how to perfect structure, Pearl Cleage to sustain tension, and Nora Roberts for characterization.
Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
My mother was a Book of the Month Club devotee. I remember she always looked forward to Pearl Buck's books.
Whenever sorrow comes, be kind to it.
For God has placed a pearl in sorrow’s hand.
Stone Temple Pilots, Bush, and Silverchair are taking the simplest elements of Soundgarden, Nirvana, and Pearl Jam and melding them into one homogenous thing.
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.
No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?
Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no!
We’re super fortunate in Pearl Jam to have such loyal fans...who really want to come & see us play.
I would that I were an old beggar
Rolling a blind pearl eye,
For he cannot see my lady
Go gallivanting by.
If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell.
If you want to unleash more creativity in your company, you need to allow for a little contamination. It is the sand in the oyster that creates the pearl.
My role in life is that of the grain of sand to the oyster-it irritates the oyster and out comes a pearl.
