#diamond

Imagine you are walking along, and you trip over something and you turn around and find that it is a huge diamond. You would pick it up and do everything in your power to take care of that diamond because it might take care of you for the rest of your life. ↗

— Chad Michael Murray

#around #because #care #diamond #everything

… the river sliding along its banks, darker now than the sky descending a last time to scatter its diamonds into these black waters that contain the day that passed, the night to come. — Excerpt from the poem “The Mercy ↗

— Philip Levine

#diamonds #rivers #stars #water #change

Then she added in a sort of childish delight: 'We'll be poor, won't we? Like people in books. And I'll be an orphan and utterly free. Free and poor! What fun!' She stopped and raised her lips to him in a delighted kiss. 'It's impossible to be both together,' said John grimly. 'People have found that out. And I should choose to be free as preferable of the two... ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#freedom #poor #rich #the-diamond-as-big-as-the-ritz #freedom

Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#diamond #inspirational #time #inspirational

Look at Neil Diamond. Was he the cool guy? No, he was the housewives' guy. He didn't try to be what he wasn't. He just did what he did - made great music, was a good entertainer, nice-enough guy. ↗

— Michael Buble

#cool guy #diamond #did #entertainer #good

This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip. ↗

— Richard Burton

#diamond #many

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#diamonds #pebbles #places #polished #where

As soon as she gets her divorce one of us is going to marry her. We don't know which. She is about as beautiful a woman as I ever saw, and very witty and well-informed, but it would cost a good deal to keep her in diamonds. ↗

— Richard H. Davis

#beautiful #cost #deal #diamonds #divorce

You can find a diamond in the rough a lot of times. ↗

— Kenneth Edmonds

#find #lot #rough #times #you

I have to report to those of you who think diamonds make a difference that I cannot tell what it is. Seriously, as you all know, they make no difference at all. They just make the flute look a little more special. ↗

— James Galway

#diamonds #difference #flute #i #just