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Beads Quotes

Fashion, prayer, and stories strung together.

These beads quotes use the word in strikingly different ways - one compares episodic book series to beads on a string, while another warns against reciting prayer beads with your mind elsewhere.

I was pleasantly surprised to find out that pirates did wear eye patches and have peg legs and have brightly colored beads. I never knew what the beads were for. They really were for frightening and terrifying their prey.

Quotes by Robert Kurson

When I was a kid, I was trendier. I'd wear anything. I was in love beads and platforms.

Quotes by Michael Kors

When I was a child, I lived in Morocco, and I would always buy a lot of beads from the markets and to make jewellery for friends. Later, at 18, I would do my own clothes and make my own...

Quotes by Maripol

It is the mass dream of inverted self, populous with fears overt and secret, that forms the continuous but gossamer thread upon which are strung as phantom beads all civilizations from the remotest past of record to that of the...

Quotes by Louis Sullivan

Always Quotes

Not all series books are sagas. Some are shaped more like beads on a string, separate episodes held together by a set of characters, who may or may not grow and change as the series continues.

Quotes by Katharine Kerr

Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam.

Quotes by Johannes Tauler

I collect firearms, and I've got a Winchester, an Indian rifle. It has tacks for every warrior that was shot, like notches on a pistol, and it's got feathers and beads hanging off it. It's like a work of art.

Quotes by Joe Perry

My mala beads are very precious to me. A yoga teacher and friend named Leslie made them for me with love and intention. They are very grounding, and I love them.

Quotes by Jamie Anderson

Day is like day as two beads in a rosary, unless changes of weather form the only variety.

Quotes by Henryk Sienkiewicz

American Quotes

These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow.

Quotes by Henrik Ibsen

I always pray. I'm quite religious. I've had the beads since I can remember.

Quotes by Daniel Sturridge

I ordered each man to be presented with something, as strings of ten or a dozen glass beads apiece, and thongs of leather, all which they estimated highly; those which came on board I directed should be fed with molasses.

Quotes by Christopher Columbus

Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture.

Quotes by Buffy Sainte-Marie

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.

Quotes by Brenda Ueland

American Culture Quotes

Gonpo Tso was born a princess. As a young woman, she dressed in fur-trimmed robes with fat ropes of coral beads strung around her neck. She lived in an adobe castle on the edge of the Tibetan plateau with a...

Quotes by Barbara Demick

When I need to get away from my desk, I tend to take walks or go places. I also like to bead - working with beads to make jewellery.

Quotes by Ann Leckie

Frequently Asked Questions

Do these beads quotes only refer to jewelry?
No, "beads" covers several ideas here - a fashion memory of love beads and platforms, prayer beads used in devotion, decorative beads on a collected rifle, and beads as a metaphor for story structure.
What does comparing book series to "beads on a string" mean?
It describes series made of separate, loosely connected episodes held together mainly by shared characters, rather than one continuous saga where events build directly on each other.
Is there a quote warning against reciting prayer beads absentmindedly?
Yes, one quote argues real prayer isn't mere recitation while your mind drifts elsewhere, suggesting sincerity matters more than repeating words or counting beads alone.
Are beads mentioned in relation to a fashion trend?
Yes, one speaker recalls being trendier as a kid, willing to wear anything, and specifically mentions being into love beads and platform shoes at the time.
What other quote pages fit this varied beads theme?
Try American Culture quotes for more on style and heritage, or Anything quotes for a broader, looser set of lines.

A third memory recalls love beads and platform shoes from a trendier youth. For related reading, see American quotes or Anything quotes.