Diamond Quotes

Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever. (Horace Mann)
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool. View quote
Joseph Roux
This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip. View quote
Richard Burton
Techniques employ four qualities that reflect the nature of our world. Depending on the circumstance, you should be: hard as a diamond, flexible as a willow, smooth-flowing like water, or as empty as space. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. View quote
Confucius
Unfortunately, a lot of executives aren't like producers, and can't hear the diamond in the rough. View quote
Babyface
You can find a diamond in the rough a lot of times. View quote
Babyface
By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond? View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
All is beautiful and unceasing, all is music and reason, and all, like diamond, is carbon first, then light. View quote
José Martí
I met Jack Kennedy in November, 1946 ... We went out on a double date and it turned out to be a fair evening for me. I seduced a girl who would have been bored by a diamond as big as the Ritz. (Norman Mailer)
I need to be looked after. I'm not talking about diamond rings and nice restaurants and fancy stuff-in fact, that makes me uncomfortable. I didn't grow up with it and it's not me, you know. But I need someone to say to me, ‘Shall I run you a bath?' or ‘Let's go to the pub, just us. View quote
Kate Winslet
Asanas bring perfection in body, beauty in form,grace, strength, compactness, and the harness and brilliance of a diamond. View quote
Patañjali
They may signify wealth, but they can actually mean so much more-like committment, family, and love. And there's nothing like a perfect diamond to remind you that you'll never be perfect - the truth is, all you can do is try. View quote
Nicole Richie
It's incredible. Nine? Wow. I just remember winning my first one, getting the medal and the plate, the pin with the diamond for first place. My ninth title, I have no answer for that because I never thought it would be possible. View quote
Michelle Kwan
Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough. View quote
Larry David
For John Howard to get to any high moral ground he would have to first climb out of the volcanic hole he's dug for himself over the last decade. You know, it's like one of those deep diamond mined holes in South Africa, you know, they're about a mile underground. He'd have to come a mile up to get to even equilibrium, let alone have any contest in morality with Kevin Rudd. View quote
Paul Keating
I wanted to win to feed the hungry people of my community. I didn't want to win to buy a diamond – I didn't have no diamonds then. I didn't want to win to buy a car, I didn't want to win to bring a couple of chicks downtown to a hotel. I wanted to win to feed the poor people of the community. View quote
Mr. T
I am all at once what Christ is, ' since he was what I am, and This Jack, joke, poor potsherd, ' patch, matchwood, immortal diamond, Is immortal diamond. View quote
Gerard Manley Hopkins
With spots quadrangular of diamond form, Ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, And spades, the emblems of untimely graves. View quote
William Cowper
Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world. Like a great rough diamond, it may do very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value. (Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield)
Diamond, however, had not been out so late before in all his life, and things looked so strange about him! - just as if he had got into Fairyland, of which he knew quite as much as anybody; for his mother had no money to buy books to set him wrong on the subject. View quote
George MacDonald
The jungle looked back at them with a vastness, a breathing moss-and-leaf silence, with a billion diamond and emerald insect eyes. View quote
Ray Bradbury
The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool. View quote
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
The playing field is more sacred than the stock exchange, more blessed than Capital Hill or the vaults of Fort Knox. The diamond and the gridiron - and, to a lesser degree, the court, the rink, the track, and the ring - embody the American dream of Eden. View quote
Lewis H. Lapham