#diamond

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#extremely #hard #know #self #steel

Big girls need big diamonds. ↗

— Elizabeth Taylor

#diamonds #need

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

#both #diamond #forever #golden #gone

… 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

There are blue diamonds born to the world and given to those who only want glass crystals. There are blue roses born to the world yet given to those who only want daisies. Blue diamond, don't cry because they want glass crystals. Blue rose, don't bleed because they see only the daisies. You were formed in the bedroom of the gods, you were conceived in the garden of the eternal! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#blue-roses #inspirational-quotes #value #worth #inspirational

I may not be perfect but I've always been true I may not be worthy in your eyes ↗

— Avenged Sevenfold

#crossroads #diamonds-in-the-rough #music #music

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

— Richard Burton

#diamond #many

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

#against #children #complicit #country #destruction

True friends are like diamonds – bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style. ↗

— Nicole Richie

#fashion #friends #friendship #jewelry #style

Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust. ↗

— John Webster

#blood #cut #diamonds #dust #fall