Aquamarines grew with emeralds, Claire told me. But emeralds were fragile and always broke into smaller pieces, while aquamarines were stronger, grew in huge crystals without any trouble, so they weren't worth as much. It was the emerald that didn't break that was the really valuable thing.
Quotes about emeralds (8 Quotes)
The tears I gratified him with were fake ones. Ones that set off my green eyes the way diamonds set off emeralds. And it worked. If you dazzled a man with green eyes, he will be so hypnotized that he won't notice there is someone inside the eyes spying on him. - Vida Winters Page 268
Know that from the vibration of the Word, we obtain spiritual wisdom and meditation. Through it, we speak the Unspoken. He is the fruit-bearing Tree, luxuriantly green with abundant shade. The rubies, jewels and emeralds are in the Guru's Treasury.
My dad's last words to me were, 'Don't let the small stuff bother you.' I still do the same things I always did. I never used to worry about money. It really hasn't made any difference. It's an incredible thrill to find gold and emeralds. It's too much fun to quit.
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.
Once you get up there at night and see the country cities with lights that look like diamonds and emeralds, once you see all those things you don't want to give that up.
Emerald attorney Robert Clifford also pointed out that the portion of the tape played was only a two-and-a-half minute piece of a five-hour conversation and that the testimony was part of the gaming board's effort to yank Emerald's license by sullying Rosemont's reputation. Is this fair to produce this ... I don't think so.
The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.