Pearl Quotes

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.

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.

In January of 1995, my family and I moved to Seattle. Pearl Jam did the first of their live radio broadcasts, Monkey Wrench Radio, along with many other Seattle musicians.

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.

All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy.

We're charging what we're worth and we don't think we're worth $22.50. We take a lower cut than Pearl Jam.

My husband is from Hawaii and his father who was also born in Hawaii was a teenager when Pearl Harbor happened, right before church and he ran up and got on the roof of his grandfather's house and watched the planes go over.

The lines of Pearl Art Glass are clean, certainly not cluttered.

But in 1941, on December 8th, after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, my mother bought a radio and we listened to the war news. We'd not had a radio up to that time. I was born in 1934, so I was seven years of age.

Playing along with records is key. And as far as equipment goes it has gotten so much more affordable and the drum sets are of great quality. I play Pearl; their Export Series is great for a beginner.

A lot of directors don't want the pressure of a movie the size of Pearl Harbor. But I love it. I thrive on it.

Everybody got away from what Pearl Jam are supposed to be.

I hope no one will think of... sending me to Pearl Harbor.

After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor.

Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor's officers' mess and are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945.

We may take breaks and do other things, but we feel we'll ultimately have Pearl Jam as a family.

I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war.

Like a layer on a pearl, you can't specifically identify the irritant, the moment of the irritant, but at the end of the day, you know you have a pearl.

With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, Can I sing this part, or, I want to play guitar. I feel like I have more courage to do that.

By all means, let someone else have Pearl Harbor.

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

Today, war of necessity is used by critics of military action to describe unavoidable response to an attack like that on Pearl Harbor that led to our prompt, official declaration of war, while they characterize as unwise wars of choice the wars in Korea, Vietnam and the current war in Iraq.

It has never demonstrated any desire to provide humane treatment to captured Americans. If anything, the murders of Nicholas Berg and Daniel Pearl declare al Qaeda's intentions to kill even innocent civilian prisoners.

We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.

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.