All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate
Physically, the heart is an organ that keeps us alive through a coordinated network of cells beating together. Spiritually, the heart is the center of love, the force that makes our lives worthwhile. Globally, the heart is a symbol of a new organizing principle for how to live together on this finite jewel of a planet.
Black is a pearl in a woman's eye.
I guess the only jewels of my life were the pictures I made with Fred Astaire.
A good name is seldom regained. When character is gone, all is gone, and one of the richest jewels of life is lost forever.
Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.
Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her hand she bore.
I love Chatsworth, Winchester Cathedral, Edinburgh Castle. . . Every time I'm in the vicinity of something old and worth looking at, I try to go. You don't even have to leave your home town to see some places. How many Londoners have seen the crown jewels? Not many, and they'll blow you away, I promise.
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
The earth is like a beautiful bride who needs no manmade jewels to heighten her loveliness.
Men would not be so hasty to abandon the world either as monks or as suicides, did they but see the jewels of wisdom and faith which are scattered so plentifully along its paths; and lacking which no soul can come again from beyond the grave to gather.
Truffles must come to the table in their own stock and as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil, imagine - if you have never visited it - the desolate kingdom where it rules.
All our land was enriched with my treasures buried in it, thickly inhabited just below the surface with my marbles and my teeth and my colored stones, all perhaps turned to jewels by now, held together under the ground in a powerful taut web which never loosened, but held fast to guard us.
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.
A person fully awakened to the jewel-like dignity of their own life is capable of truly respecting that same treasure in others.
Food for all is a necessity. Food should not be a merchandise, to be bought and sold as jewels are bought and sold by those who have the money to buy. Food is a human necessity, like water and air, it should be available.
After the occupation of Paris, Hitler visited Paris, which of course was a great jewel for him, and he wanted to go up on the Eiffel Tower and gaze down upon the city of Paris, which he'd conquered. For some reason the elevators mysteriously stopped working that day. Some people say it might have had to do with the French resistance. So he couldn't go up.
Simplicity is a jewel rarely found.
Living jewels dropped unstained from heaven.