Pearl Quotes

...freedom can be a full-time job if you let it.

~ Pearl Cleage

Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl.

~ Jodi Picoult

Oh, Irrylath,Irrylath, we squaundered our two years together.

~ Meredith Ann Pierce

In the sea of my emotions, his presence is like a pearl in the oyster. Very hard to locate, yet very precious and still beautiful.

~ Mehek Bassi

Pluck up a spirit, and do not be all the time sighing and murmuring!

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

Tana would sit near the door to the basement with fingers in her ears, tears and snot running down her face as she cried and cried and cried. And little Pearl would toddle up, crying, too. They cried while they ate their cereal, cried while they watched cartoons, and cried themselves to sleep at night, huddled together in Tana's little bed. 'Make her stop' Pearl said, but Tana couldn't.

~ Holly Black

Sacredness grew like a pearl, sometimes around the most unlikely bits of grit.

~ S.m. Stirling

poetry is not—except in a very limited sense—a form of self-expression. Who on earth supposes that the pearl expresses the oyster?

~ Cecil Day-Lewis

I was in Shanghai when the Japanese invaded China. I was there in Shanghai when, the morning after Pearl Harbor, they seized Shanghai.

~ J. G. Ballard