Jewels Quotes - Page 8

San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate

What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine, The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? They sought a faith's pure shrine.

Your eyes are like two jewels in the sky.

My chastity's the jewel of our house, bequeathed down from many ancestors.

Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her hand she bore.

Mother Teresa- cream. Exemplars, exemplary models we can learn from and become more like, but we don't have to imitate them. We can become more authentically ourselves, impeccable and unselfish, and beneficial to many like a wish fulfilling jewel.

The jewels of spiritual service are always quarried in the depths of spiritual experience. Never is this more true than in revival. Bend the church and save the people.

To be apt in quotation is a splendid and dangerous gift. Splendid, because it ornaments a man's speech with other men's jewels; dangerous, for the same reason.

Living jewels dropped unstained from heaven.

I won't slave for beggar's pay, likewise gold and jewels, but I would slave to learn the way, to sink your ship of fools.

Rings and other jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself.

I put the charm bracelet away in the purse and return it to my jewel case. I don't need a spell to foresee the future; I am going to make it happen.

Suspicion is a virtue as long as its object is the public good, and as long as it stays within proper bounds. Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel.

Pearls ... have a way of dying when separated from their owner.

In every landscape should reside jewels of abstract art waiting to be discovered.

No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.

Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world.

When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!

He goes for stark versus accessorized, dark over bright, jewel tone instead of pastel, carnal over flirty.

Funny, 'ow you can 'old a jewel in your 'and, and toss it away, and not even know what you 'ad until it's gone.

Her hatred glittered irresistibly. I could see it, the jewel, it was sapphire, it was the cold lakes of Norway.

Truth is a jewel which should not be painted over; but it may be set to advantage and shown in a good light.

Jewels! It's my belief that when woman was made, jewels were invented only to make her the more mischievous.

Cosmology is serious business and in our hearts we are nothing if not cosmologists, hanging in a cold cage sifting the ruthless jewels of existence.

I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!