Emeralds Quotes

• Give me songs to sing and emerald dreams to dream and I'll give you love unfolding.

  Jim Morrison

  Dream, Song, Inspirational Love

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• The most abundant hue in nature, the human eye sees more green than any other color in the spectrumas it has throughout history, multifaceted emerald continues to sparkle and fascinate.  Symbolically, emerald brings a sense of clarity, renewal and rejuvenation, which is so important in today's complex world.  This powerful and universally-appealing tone translates easily to both fashion and home interiors.

  Leatrice Eiseman

  Fashion, Powerful, Eye

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• No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be emerald, my color undiminished.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Color, Doe, Tasks

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.87, Modern Library

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• Love is an emerald. Its brilliant light wards off dragons On this treacherous path.

  Rumi

  True Love, Inspirational Love, Love Is

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• Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Meditation, Doe, Colour

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.74, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea.

  Anne Sexton

  Dark, Golf, Sea

  Anne Sexton (1974). “The death notebooks”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.

  L. Frank Baum

  Cities, Yellow, Bricks

  TheWonderful Wizard of Oz ch. 2 (1900). The phrase "yellow brick road" does not appear in this book. See Harburg 6

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• Emeralds,' said the rabbit. 'Emeralds make a lovely gift.

  Maurice Sendak

  Lovely, Rabbits, Said

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• There are only two kinds of people in the world that really count. One kind's wheat and the other kind's emeralds.

  Edna Ferber

  Two, People, World

  Edna Ferber (2013). “So Big”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• They'll sell you thousands of greens. Veronese green and emerald green and cadmium green and any sort of green you like; but that particular green, never.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Emerald Green, Colour

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• Whatever any one does or says, I must be good; just as if the emerald were always saying this: "Whatever any one does or says, I must still be emerald, and keep my color.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Color, Doe, Goodness

  Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.69, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• My people have been wearing green glasses on their eyes for so long that most of them think this really is an Emerald City.

  L. Frank Baum

  Eye, Thinking, Glasses

  "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz". Book by L. Frank Baum, 1900.

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• I saw something in his pretty green eyes that I had never seen before: Anger. They were like emerald fire

  Richelle Mead

  Eye, Fire, Green

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• I'm a classic emerald green Sixties Jaguar that nobody can own, but my husband is allowed to drive.

  Tori Amos

  Husband, Emerald Green, Jaguars

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• I have nothing against diamonds, or rubies or emeralds or sapphires. I do object when their acquisition is complicit in the debasement of children or the destruction of a country.

  Edward Zwick

  Country, Children, Sapphires

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The jungle looked back at them with a vastness, a breathing moss-and-leaf silence, with a billion diamond and emerald insect eyes.

  Ray Bradbury

  Eye, Breathing, Silence

  Ray Bradbury (2013). “Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales”, p.34, Harper Collins

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• The bed of flowers
  Loosens amain,
  The beauteous snowdrops
  Droop o'er the plain.
  The crocus opens
  Its glowing bud,
  Like emeralds others,
  Others, like blood.
  With saucy gesture
  Primroses flare,
  And roguish violets,
  Hidden with care;
  And whatsoever
  There stirs and strives,
  The Spring's contented,
  If works and thrives.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Spring, Flower, Glowing

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.2888, Delphi Classics

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• A wise word is more rare than the green emerald, and one can find the word of wisdom even amongst the slave girls making grain.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Girl, Wise, Wisdom

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• Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the marketplace. It may not be purchased of the merchants, for can it be weighed out in the balance for gold.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love Is, Balance, Gold

  Oscar wilde (1943). “The Happy Prince and Other Tales (Illustrated)”, p.14, LCI

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• This spring as it comes bursts up in bonfires green,
  Wild puffing of emerald trees, and flame-filled bushes,
  Thorn-blossom lifting in wreaths of smoke between
  Where the wood fumes up and the watery, flickering rushes.
  I am amazed at this spring, this conflagration
  Of green fires lit on the soil of the earth, this blaze
  Of growing, and sparks that puff in wild gyration,
  Faces of people streaming across my gaze.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Spring, Fire, Flames

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6168, Delphi Classics

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• Aquamarines grew with emeralds, Claire told me. But emeralds were fragile and always broke into smaller pieces, while aquamarines were stronger, grew in huge crystals without any trouble, so they weren't worth as much. It was the emerald that didn't break that was the really valuable thing.

  Janet Fitch

  Stronger, Pieces, Crystals

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.161, Hachette UK

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• There is in them a softer fire than the ruby, there is the brilliant purple of the amethyst, and the sea green of the emerald - all shining together in incredible union. Some by their splendor rival the colors of the painters, others the flame of burning sulphur or of fire quickened by oil.

  Pliny the Elder

  Sea, Purple, Oil

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• What exists beneath the sea?I'd always pictured it in colors of emerald and aquamarine, where black velvet fish with sequined eyes swim among plankton.But, when my eyes adjust, I see gray stones, lost anchors, wet wood, buttons, hooks, and eyes, the salem witches who wouldn't float, stars and stripes, missing vessels, windup toys, the souls of Romeo and Juliet, peaches, cream, pistons, screams, cages of ribs and birds, tunnels, nutcracker soldiers, satin bows, drugstore signs, Pandora box ripped open at its hinges.

  Kelly Easton

  Stars, Eye, Color

  Kelly Easton (2001). “The Life History of a Star”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

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• The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I could look down into the vegetable garden enclosed within its tall pale of reeds - rich chocolate earth studded emerald green, frothed with the white of cauliflowers, jeweled with the purple globes of eggplant and the scarlet wealth of tomatoes.

  Doris Lessing

  Summer, Garden, Eggplant

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• I learned about the sacred art of self decoration with the monarch butterflies perched atop my head, lightning bugs as my night jewelry, and emerald-green frogs as bracelets.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Art, Butterfly, Night

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