Quotes About Cherished

Or maybe a ghost was only a thing that endures, like the furnishings of this room, like the chairs or table; a little worse for wear, but still here because someone cherished it, or because it was made of such hardy stuff that time couldn't wear it down fast enough.

The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection [are] that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.

I was fortunate to be raised by loving grandparents.

My mother gave me boxing gloves; I wanted boxing gloves. I liked to box. So I still have them. They're still in my bookcase, very old, tattered, and they were cherished.

Good friends are hard to find!

You have no idea what a charming memory you are to me.

Men are motivated and empowered when they feel needed. Women are motivated and empowered when they feel cherished.

Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment.

I had a great childhood. Even though I never had my own room - I shared the porch with my grandfather and kept my belongings in one drawer of a dresser that was jammed next to the piano - I never went hungry and was always supported by my family.

A good friend is like a four-leaf clover…'" "'Hard to find and lucky to have

there's no harm in indulging in a little nostalgia. What is nostalgia, after all, but an attempt to preserve that which was good in the past?

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used. Powerlessness and silence go together.

and when nanas die they leave grandchildren and perhaps a trace memory of being coddled, kissed, attended to, and loved, of being chased across the lawn or rocked in the middle of the night or taken seriously. In Nanaville there is always in the back of my mind the understanding that I am building a memory out of spare parts and that, someday, that memory will be all that's left of me.

it seem like he was training for the Olympics and I was the gold medal. No one had ever acted like I was the gold medal before, or not so I'd noticed. But

There wasn't a man alive in Pern who hadn't secretly cherished the notion that he might be able to Impress a dragon. That he could be linked for life to the love and sustaining admiration of these gentle great beasts. That he could transverse Pern in a twinkling, astride his dragon. That he would never suffer the loneliness that was the condition of most men - a dragonrider always had his dragon.

we are the sum of all we've seen and all we've appreciated and understood. You were the sum of sunshine on marble floors filled with pictures of divine beings who laughed and loved and drank the fruit of the vine as surely as you were the sum of the poets and historians and philosophers you'd read. You were the sum and the fount of what you'd cherished and chosen to abide and all you had loved.

Life is a gift. Immortality is a precious gift.

I had a great and unshakable love of her. I don't think anyone else did. And one thing that endeared her to me always was that she never said anything ordinary.

A questioning mind is the most cherished resource man has and the rarest.

Respect must be earned, Ren. Not demanded. A questioning mind is the most cherished resource man has and the rarest." – Choo Co La Tah

How amazing it is that friendships can become so full that you can't imagine what your life was like before them.

I could even feel how perishable all my moments really were, how all my life they had come to me begging to be lived, to be cherished even.

At times, my nostalgia for our family life as it used to be--for our own imperfect, cherished, irretrievable past--is nearly overwhelming.