Diamond Quotes - Page 29

• Life is not mean, it is grand; if it is mean to any, he or she makes it so. God made it glorious. It is paved with diamonds; its banks he fringed with flowers. He overarched it with stars. Around it He spread the glory of the physical universe-suns, moon, worlds, constellations, systems-all that is magnificent in motion, sublime in magnitude, and grand in order and obedience. God would not have attended life with this broad march of grandeur if it did not mean something.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Life, Stars, Flower

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• As in nature, as in the arts, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls as well as stones their lustre; the more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, their God has no end in view but to perfect His people's graces. Our Father, and and kindest of fathers, He afflicts not willingly; He sends tribulations, but hear St Paul tell their purpose, - "Tribulation worketh patience, and patience experience, and experience hope."

  Thomas Guthrie

  Art, Cutting, Views

  "Man and the Gospel".

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• Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may well call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Power, Civilization, Black

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.362

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• Hana, everything that God made valuable in the world is covered and hard to get to. Where do you find diamonds? Deep down in the ground, covered and protected. Where do you find pearls? Deep down at the bottom of the ocean, covered up and protected in a beautiful shell. Where do you find gold? Way down in the mine, covered over with layers and layers of rock. You've got to work hard to get to them.

  Muhammad Ali

  Beautiful, Ocean, Hard Work

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• We are starving for education... it's like a precious gift. It's like a diamond.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Precious Gifts, Starving

  "Malala Yousafzai: 'Death Did Not Want to Kill Me'". Interview with Diane Sawyer, abcnews.go.com. October 06, 2013.

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• If I had the stars from the darkest night and the diamonds from the deepest ocean, I'd forsake them all for your sweet kiss, for that's all I'm wishin' to be ownin'.

  Bob Dylan

  Romantic, Sweet, Stars

  Song: Boots of Spanish Leather, Album: The Times They Are A-Changin', 1964

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• A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job

  Thomas A. Edison

  Jobs, Coal, Pieces

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• The wealthiest places in the world are not gold mines, oil fields, diamond mines or banks. The wealthiest place is the cemetery. There lies companies that were never started, masterpieces that were never painted… In the cemetery there is buried the greatest treasure of untapped potential. There is a treasure within you that must come out. Don’t go to the grave with your treasure still within YOU.

  Myles Munroe

  Lying, Greatest Treasure, Oil

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• People imagine I am always in a Bentley with pearls and diamonds and black glasses and Karl Lagerfeld next to me.

  Ines de La Fressange

  Glasses, People, Black

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• Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people, they're drinking, thinking that they got it made. Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things, but you'd better lift your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it, babe.

  Bob Dylan

  Drinking, Princess, Thinking

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• Sometimes I can see colour without opening my eyes. I saw that Billy's heart was no colour and every colour. Like water or diamonds or crystals, it's pure and reflects the light.

  Glenda Millard

  Heart, Eye, Light

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• Watch me, diamonds shining looking like I robbed Liberace.

  Tupac Shakur

  Shining, Musical, Watches

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• The more you get past pain, the more it goes from coal to diamond.

  Jodi Picoult

  Pain, Past, Coal

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Salem Falls”, p.497, Simon and Schuster

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• The whole history of these books (i.e. the Gospels) is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and such tricks have been played with their text, and with the texts of other books relating to them, that we have a right, from that cause, to entertain much doubt what parts of them are genuine. In the New Testament there is internal evidence that parts of it have proceeded from an extraordinary man; and that other parts are of the fabric of very inferior minds. It is as easy to separate those parts, as to pick out diamonds from dunghills.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Book, Men

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• The most desired gift of love is not diamonds or roses or chocolate. It's focused attention.

  Rick Warren

  Love, Marriage, Rose

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• My style is not that big. I wear heels, tight pants, and I wear diamonds.

  Donatella Versace

  Style, Tight Pants, Bigs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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