Pearl Quotes

“My mother was an oyster,” he said with a wink. “And I’m the pearl.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“Do you know hot to drive?" he asked.
"Sure," she said. "This one is the gas.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, Drink, Slay, Love

“Somewhere along the line, the pearl would be handed to me.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“...freedom can be a full-time job if you let it.”
― Pearl Cleage, Till You Hear from Me

“It's the grit that makes the pearl.”
― Holly Cupala, Tell Me a Secret

“Day and night I guarded the pearl of my soul.
Now in this ocean of pearling currents,
I’ve lost track of which was mine.”
― Rumi

“Oh, Irrylath,Irrylath, we squaundered our two years together.”
― Meredith Ann Pierce, The Pearl of the Soul of the World

“The air is of silver and pearl, the night is liquid with moonlight.”
― Willa Cather, The Collected Works of Willa Cather

“As the face of beauty grows dim with age, so gradually the brilliancy of youth fades from the pearl and the complexion of it is changed. And yet it retains a certain loveliness which may be well compared to the exquisite serenity with which the maturer years of some women are adorned.”
― Wallis Richard Cattelle, The Pearl

“You are not a piece of furniture to be accommodated. You are a priceless pearl to be treasured.”
― Paul Bamikole

“That little baggage hath witchcraft in her.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne

“TRUE BEAUTY IS MEASURED BY THE NUMBER OF PEARLS WITHIN YOU, NOT AROUND YOUR NECK.”
― Suzy Kassem

“God help us
you full of talk of a city called Edinburgh
and me in silence so very deep we were so very much in love.

And the burns and sikes and streams
though shallow
were deep music to us.
You trout-tickler,
you flower-picker,
climber in willow trees, me laughing below

as best I could laugh, though you never thought it ugly.
Indeed the word you used was the word beautiful,
pinning cowslips behind my ears,

you patting and running fingers through our
beckwashed hair.
Lying by the marigold beds
bare toes entwined, then dancing under branches
before the elms ever died. But our mutual hearts never did.

Bar it is 7 and your raining rage
must cease
under my morning moon.
In my dawn shawl looking dawndown upon you
in your foot-striding fellhighhighupuptopheavyrainbeatingrainrain.
We have always walked together so long.
In the long grass we walked and walked forever so long so very language long
and I could say so once you had the slate in my lap.

My tongue blank - FOREVER, word we wrote on a slate, remember
when you taught me? - only my hands and eyes moving now - two
daughters we could have had -

but I am looking kindly and lovingly on you
'Please do it'
- cool your raging fire lovelorn heart - for me.

And love me - forever.”
― Barry MacSweeney, Pearl in the Silver Morning

“Pearl Harbor, the 9-11 attacks, and the COVID-19 pandemic are all classic examples of USA government failures.”
― Steven Magee

“A pearl forgotten on the beach,
even if it is not noticed, picked up or duly recognized,
never loses its value.”
― Augusto Branco

“In the References section, I’ve included a website address and a QR code for the full list of the nearly five thousand citations referenced throughout this book.”
― Michael Greger, How Not to Diet

“She’s a tough clam to pry open. I’ve a feeling, though, once we do, we’ll find a pearl.”
“Pearls form in oysters.”
“Oysters, clams...” He waved dismissively. “It’s all seafood. You know what I meant.”
― Maria V. Snyder, Night Study

“together we had water and silence and fire and togetherness
the lights of all you didn't say knots my life and all dreams.”
― Barry MacSweeney, Pearl in the Silver Morning

“A single black ant sped across the floor beyond our naked toes, and I wondered why I felt so oppositional. His expression of unflappable faith had touched a profound place, the deep wellspring of my purpose—my future dream I cradled like a soft and formative pearl.”
― Aspen Matis, Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir

“Imagine if you will the most creative, energetic, and affectionate kitten or puppy you've ever experienced. Then add wings. - Love and Feathers”
― Shannon Cutts, Love & Feathers: what a palm-sized parrot has taught me about life, love, and healthy self-esteem

“When I have guests over I don't have to worry about making conversation. Pearl takes care of that. - Love and Feathers”
― Shannon Cutts, LOVE & FEATHERS: What a Palm-Sized Parrot Has Taught Me About Life, Love, and Healthy

“Later" is not a concept parrots understand. "Now" is the only time. - Love and Feathers”
― Shannon Cutts, Love & Feathers: what a palm-sized parrot has taught me about life, love, and healthy self-esteem

“Parrots typically operate on one volume, "LOUD." Sometimes they will vary this with "extra LOUD" and "unbearably LOUD." - Love and Feathers”
― Shannon Cutts, LOVE & FEATHERS: What a Palm-Sized Parrot Has Taught Me About Life, Love, and Healthy

“Nothing else but love really matters. NOTHING. - Love and Feathers”
― Shannon Cutts, Love & Feathers: what a palm-sized parrot has taught me about life, love, and healthy self-esteem

“When asked who they talk to when they get upset, many children (and adults!) say it is their pet. - Love and Feathers (sourced from the National Institutes of Health)”
― Shannon Cutts, Love & Feathers: what a palm-sized parrot has taught me about life, love, and healthy self-esteem

“What if you could peel a pearl? Take a fine knife and a magnifying glass and strip the layers of glint and glimmer year by year, until at last you reached the bit of wrong that had birthed the shine. But you’d have no pearl left.”
― Max Gladstone, Last Exit

“I mourned, hands clenched, before that mound.
For the piercing cold of grief had caught
Me in the doleful dread and bound
My heart, though reason solace sought.
I longed for my pearl, locked in the ground,
While fierce contentions in me fought.
In Christ, though comfort could be found.
My wretched will was still distraught.
I fell upon that flowery plot.”
― Anonymous

“Each grass from a lifeless grain is bred,
Else to harvest no wheat were won:
Always from good is good begun.
So seemly a seed could not die in vain,
That sprig nor spice there would be none
Of that precious pearl without a stain.”
― Anonymous

“A person with physical beauty lacking insight is like a seashell without pearl.”
― Spriha Kant

“Her jagged pearl teeth dug into my shoulder. Their cold numbed the pain, as trickles of hot blood dripped into the crux of where our chests met, forming a lake that would flow over and onto the floor. I said nothing, but inside I begged her to bite me again, to keep this intimacy going to keep the greater intimacy at bay.”
― Sam Richard, Teenage Grave