Diamond Quotes - Page 27

• Oh sharp diamond, my mother!
  I could not count the cost
  of all your faces, your moods
  that present that I lost.
  Sweet girl, my deathbed,
  my jewel-fingered lady...

  Anne Sexton

  Girl, Mother, Sweet

  Anne Sexton, “Christmas Eve”

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• Wherever love comes from, whatever is its genesis, it isn’t like a quantity of gold or diamonds, even water in the earth-a fixed quantity, Fos thought. You can’t use up love, deplete it at its source. Love exists beyond fixed limits. Beyond what you can see or count.

  Marianne Wiggins

  Water, Gold, Limits

  Marianne Wiggins (2003). “Evidence of Things Unseen: A Novel”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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• Without a whole lot of pressure, a diamond is just a piece of coal.

  Miriam

  Coal, Pieces, Pressure

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• His expression was infused with lust and adoration as he lowered his head to kiss her throat, his tongue venturing into the little spaces between the diamonds and round opals. “Why can’t you see yourself as I see you?” -Jack to Amanda

  Lisa Kleypas

  Kissing, Space, Expression

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• Why did I get married in a ballpark? My wife wanted a big diamond

  Mookie Wilson

  Wife, Married, Bigs

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• Even an ordinary broken chord is made to disclose rare beauties; we are reminded of the fairies' hazelnuts in which diamonds were concealed but you could break the shell only if your hands were blessed.

  Neville Cardus

  Blessed, Rare Beauty, Hands

  The Manchester Guardian, 1939.

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• Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind,
  But as for me, hélas, I may no more.
  The vain travail hath wearied me so sore,
  I am of them that farthest cometh behind.
  Yet may I by no means my wearied mind
  Draw from the deer, but as she fleeth afore
  Fainting I follow. I leave off therefore,
  Sithens in a net I seek to hold the wind.
  Who list her hunt, I put him out of doubt,
  As well as I may spend his time in vain.
  And graven with diamonds in letters plain
  There is written, her fair neck round about:
  Noli me tangere, for Caesar's I am,
  And wild for to hold, though I seem tame.

  Thomas Wyatt

  Mean, Wind, Mind

  1557 'Whoso List to Hunt'. The subject of the poem is thought to Be Anne Boleyn. See Bible 118:23.

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• Nightfall. “What a strange word. ‘Night’ I get. But ‘fall’ is a gentle word. Autumn leaves fall, swirling with languid grace To carpet the earth with their dying blaze. Tears fall, like liquid diamonds Shimmering softly, before they melt away. Night doesn’t fall here. It comes slamming down.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Fall, Autumn, Night

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.556, Dell

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• See, that why I ain’t go to church. Figger I got me a church wherever I be. Want’a talk to God, well I say, ‘howdy-howdy, God,’ and we jaw fer a bit.’ - Jimmy ‘Diamond’ Skinner

  David Baldacci

  Church, Want, Skinner

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• In 'Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds' I was visualizing Alice in Wonderland, an image of this female who would come and save me - a girl with kaleidoscope eyes who would be the real love of my life. Lucy turned out to be Yoko.

  John Lennon

  Girl, Real, Eye

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• (Pete) Rose's coming clean is the most soiled conversion of convenience since ... well, Aug. 17, 1998, when DNA evidence caused Bill Clinton to undergo a memory clarification. On the diamond, no one ever wrung more success from less natural talent than Rose did. But his second autobiography - which refutes the first - makes worse the mess he has made.

  George Will

  Memories, Natural Talent, Dna

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• At the time I write, the glory of the truffle has now reached its culmination. Who would dare to say that he has been at a dinner where there was not a pièce truffée? Who has not felt his mouth water in hearing truffles a la provencale spoken of? In fine, the truffle is the very diamond of gastronomy.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Food, Writing, Water

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• The man of genius, like a dog with a bone, or the slave who has swallowed a diamond, or a patient with the gravel, sits afar and retired, off the road, hangs out no sign of refreshment for man and beast, but says, by all possible hints and signs, I wish to be alone,--good-by,--fare-well. But the Landlord can afford to live without privacy.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dog, Men, Solitude

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1020, Delphi Classics

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• Went up from my feet to my head,
  With little chills after it stealing-
  And my hands got as numb as the dead.
  A moment, and then it was over:
  The diamond blazed up in my eyes,
  And I saw in the face of my lover
  A questioning, strange surprise.
  Maybe 'twas the scent of the flowers,
  That heavy with fragrance bloomed near,
  But I didn't feel natural for hours;
  It was odd now, wasn't it, dear?
  Write soon to your fortunate Clara
  Who has carried the prize away,
  And say you'll come on when I marry;
  I think it will happen in May.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Flower, Eye, Writing

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.637, Delphi Classics

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• I've decided that I am totally against jewelry. So I have all fake. There's no reason to have real diamonds. People think it's real anyway.

  Liza Minnelli

  Real, Thinking, People

  "Lunch with a legend" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2008.

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• Every man needs a good, solid watch. My favorite watch is the Presidential Rolex. I own many watches, but this one is usually the one on my wrist. I buy mine in the Diamond District in New York City. Classic.

  French Montana

  New York, Men, Cities

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• 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.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Forever, Taj Mahal, Rubies

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• Fraud and deceit have been practiced since the beginning of history...Brass has been called gold; glass has been sold as diamonds; and poison has been hawked as excellent food. The story of fraud throughout the ages forms an ugly chapter of human history.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Honesty, Glasses, Age

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• Consider the many special delights a lawn affords: soft mattress for a creeping baby; worm hatchery for a robin; croquet or badminton court; baseball diamond; restful green perspectives leading the eye to a background of flower beds, shrubs, or hedge; green shadows - "This lawn, a carpet all alive/With shadows flung from leaves' - as changing and as spellbinding as the waves of the sea, whether flecked with sunlight under trees of light foliage, like elm and locust, or deep, dark, solid shade, moving slowly as the tide, under maple and oak. This carpet!

  Katharine Sergeant Angell White

  Leadership, Baseball, Baby

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• Diamonds are forever, and so is Ric Flair!

  Ric Flair

  Forever, Flair

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• Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.

  Aberjhani

  Creative, Tragedy, Helping

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.2, Lulu.com

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• I was writing "Diamonds and Rust' and it had nothing to do with what it turned out to be. I don't remember what it is, but I think I was writing a song. It was literally interrupted by a phone call, and it just took another curve and it came out to be what it was.

  Joan Baez

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds actually wasn't meant to say LSD It was a drawing that John's son brought home from school Lucy was a kid in his school.

  Paul McCartney

  Home, School, Kids

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• Your children....are like diamonds...they may need polish.. and education of the right kind will impart this lustre.

  George Q. Cannon

  Education, Children, Needs

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• I mean, how many young women get a set of rubies just for doing something wholesome like swimming laps? Or win a diamond ring at Ping-Pong with their husband... ? Well, I did, and for all of these memories and the people in my life I feel blessed.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Husband, Memories, Blessed

  "Elizabeth Taylor: My Love Affair with Jewelry". Book by Elizabeth Taylor, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2002.

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