Pearl Quotes

See that you buy the field where the Pearl is; sell all, and make a purchase of salvation. Think it not easy: for it is a steep ascent to eternal glory: many are lying dead by the way, slain with security.

I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.

I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.

The attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 completely crippled our Pacific Fleet.

Today, the US spends less on defense as a percentage of our economy than we did at any time since he Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. For the world's only superpower, that is an invitation to very serious trouble.

Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.

Every prop, every shot, every pearl that rolled across the floor was exactly how I wanted it to be.

When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.

Can any of us even imagine, after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt suggesting we negotiate a resolution or that we could simply prosecute those involved? Of course it is unimaginable. We are right to be in the Middle East, and we are right to treat this as the war it is.

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

The artist that had the biggest impact on me was Michael Jackson. He was my Elvis and Beatles. When I was 15, I listened to a lot of Sinatra, but my jean jacket didn't have, 'I love Frank' on it, it had, 'I love AC/DC', 'Guns N Roses', 'Pearl Jam'. I thought Eddie Vedder was the second coming.

After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis.

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

Our military thought that they couldn't get to Pearl Harbor, that it was too long a journey from Japan to get there, and they proved us wrong.

In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster.

My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.

Unfortunately I put the opening date on the 5th of December 1941 and on the 7th of December the Japanese bombarded Pearl Harbour. My dream of a theater in Washington D.C. came to a prompt end.

Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no!

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey.

Everybody knows about Pearl Harbor. The thing that really fascinated me is that through this tragedy there was this amazing American heroism.

When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high.

If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl.

This intellectual Pearl Harbor, a real gutsy sock to the stomach.

I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.

On December 5, 1941, Chicago led a task force built around the carrier Lexington to Midway Island, at the western end of the Hawaiian Islands, about 1,000 miles from Pearl Harbor.

No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?

It's a very complex scenario, and certainly Dave was, and is, not the only person in Pearl Jam with personality flaws. Everybody in this band exhibits some form of neurotic behavior. And we couldn't find a balance, a mutual respect for each other.

The parallels between 9/11 and Pearl Harbor are striking. In each instance there were warning signs before the attack, and in each instance our government failed to connect the dots.

As costly as it was in the lives of our men and women in uniform, in military assets, and in esteem and pride, Pearl Harbor was a watershed moment for America.