Quotes About Precious

Hallie and I... were all there was. The image in the mirror that proves you are still here. We had exactly one sister apiece. We grew up knowing the simple arithmetic of scarcity: A sister is more precious than an eye.

Hope it an unbearably precious thing, worth its weight in feathers. If that's too much to think about, best to tuck it in a pocket anyway, and make it a habit.

Diamond. He's bright and shiny and worth a lot. Harder than anything else there is.

Martin Luther King Jr. stated, "If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values that all reality hinges

She has learned that her body is precious and it mustn't be offered carelessly ever again, as it holds a direct connection to her heart.

Nothing invests life with more meaning than the realisation that every moment of sentience is a precious gift

Who will live and who will die are not inscribed in a Book of Life. They are affected by human knowledge and agency, as the world becomes more intelligible and life becomes more precious.

Even the emotional comfort of a belief in an afterlife can go both ways. Would life lose its purpose if we ceased to exist when our brains die? On the contrary, nothing invests life with more meaning than the realization that every moment of sentience is a precious gift.

Being your slave what should I do but tend, Upon the hours, and times of your desire? I have no precious time at all to spend; Nor services to do till you require.

Love is the human family's most precious legacy. Its richest bequest. Its golden inheritance.

I do believe in love; it's wonderful - especially love third time around, it's even more precious; it's kind of amazing.

When all comes to all, the most precious element in life is wonder. Love is a great emotion, and power is power. But both love and power are based on wonder.

Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking.

Love is always love, come whence it may. A heart that beats at your approach, an eye that weeps when you go away are things so rare, so sweet, so precious that they must never be despised.

Your guardian angel loves you and you are precious to them - you are the most important person in the world to them and, they have to do everything they can for you.

Precious moments are small elements of time, we show and share love and kindness, with those we care about.

Jesus clearly viewed children as precious - and that if he loved kids enough to say that adults should be more like them, we should spend more time loving them too.

A precious liquid, a poison dearer than that of the Borgias - because it is made from our blood, our health, our sleep, and two-thirds of our love - we must be stingy with it.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods; desired by those who have no part in him, and precious to those who have the better part in him.

Hold tenderly that which you cherish, for it is precious and a tight grip may crush it. Do not let the fear of dropping it cause you to hold it too tightly: the chances are, it's holding you, too.

Time is love, above all else. It is the most precious commodity in the world and should be lavished on those we care most about.

The prize of all too precious you.

Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.

He held her as though she was a gift. Given to him in love. Something still and small. Unbearably precious.