Aurora

If you try to protect yourself from pain, it becomes a stone in your heart. But the more you learn to face things, the more likely that stone can become a pearl.

Norwegian Musician

David Suzuki

Pearl Harbor was the defining event in my life. It shaped who I am, and all of my hang-ups and my drives, I think, stem from that.

Canadian Scientist

Chiara Ferragni

Express yourself. Tell us who you are. If you would never wear pearls in real life, don't wear them when you get married.

Italian Businesswoman

Jean de la Bruyere

Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.

French Philosopher

Tahar Ben Jelloun

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

French Poet

Coy Bowles

Pearl Jam's 'Alive' is the reason I started to play music.

American Musician

William R. Alger

Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.

American Writer

Elsa Schiaparelli

Pearls, including cheap ones, are always in good taste.

Italian Designer

John Dryden

He who would search for pearls must dive below.

English Poet

Doris Lessing

English Writer

Pearls are highly valued in jewelry for their lustre and are often worn on formal occasions.

Jewelry Item

Natural pearls form in oysters and other mollusks without human intervention.

Natural Formation

Most pearls in jewelry today are cultured or farmed by inserting a nucleus into shellfish.

Cultured Pearls

As a metaphor, 'pearl' emphasizes the outstanding quality or value of someone or something.

Metaphorical Value

Used figuratively, it suggests that the person or thing is as rare or valuable as a pearl.

Rare Achievement

In addition to jewelry, pearl can describe a decorative element resembling pearls on various objects.

Embellishment

Using 'pearl' as a verb is less common today and gives a text an old-fashioned or vintage tone.

Historic Term

Pearl refers to a specific shade of white with a hint of iridescence, often used in paints and fabrics.

Color Shade

The color pearl is considered elegant and upscale, suitable for chic and sophisticated styles.

Subtle Elegance

 experiments and kind of execute my ideas that changing an orchestra can help revitalize classical music and it was also my hope that other orchestras would see the work that Black Pearl was doing and then emulated in their communities and I was going to do that in two simple ways I was going to fix two things one

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 toothpastes that look like this may contain tiny bits of good old polyethylene the world's most popular form of plastic next we have face and body washes this stuff makes you feel clean but how previously it was with tiny pearls of polypropylene another commonly used plastic material in

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 also emphasizes the worldliness of the merchant class, and the pearl itself, a symbol of wealth, is actually an exaggeration. Vermeer couldn't have afforded a real pearl of its size. It was likely just a glass or tin drop varnished to look like a pearl.

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 because for me, twerking is a pearl of optimism. It’s a form of self-expression, freedom -- confidence. Twerking is not just something I do to music. It’s extremely useful. It manifests in my life in ways that I need more joy. In the mornings,

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 and we laughed, and we loved it, and it was the most important stage that I've ever stood on, surrounded by family, by remnants of a people who were given as a dowry to a relentless war but still managed to make pearls of this life;

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 Inside, it's a smelly, gaping hole in the ground, but outside, it's pearly white formica and it literally gleams in the sun. This makes me feel so proud, so important, that I appoint myself the leader of my little group of friends

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 that doctors would consider you brain dead. So, I started researching into pearl divers. You know, because they go down for four minutes on one breath. And when I was researching pearl divers, I found the world of free-diving.

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 And once he had finally decided what he was going to buy, the jeweler said to him, "You know, you're very lucky that you're buying this now, because these pearls could go extinct very soon because of climate change."

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 When I was there, I got an unexpected gift. It was this antique instrument made more than a century ago, hand-carved from a rare wood, inlaid with pearls and with dozens of metal strings.

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 foreign sea cucumbers are repulsive to most predators so the pearl fish is safe inside it'll stay there until it's time to feed

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