Quotes About Treasure

the countless unnamed jewels of Mars

no treasure-house of Atreus was ever as rich as a well-stored memory.

I was, indeed, aware that a jealous, ever-waking vigilance, to guard the treasure of our liberty, not only from invasion, but from decay and corruption, was our best wisdom and our first duty.

When you see a book you want, buy it instantly because you may never find it again.

I learned both love and joy in a hard school/ and treasure them like the fierce salvage of/ some wreck that has been built to look like stone/ and stand, though it did not, a thousand years.

Koh-i-noor in a limestone-quarry as an article of that character

green emerald.

Inside my soul a treasure is buried. The key is mine and only mine. How right you are, you drunken monster! I know: the truth is in the wine. ("The Unknown Lady")

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Memory is a mans real possession....in nothing else is he rich....in nothing else is he poor.

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Are you kidding me? The woman leaves priceless Ming vases and Picassos lying about like they came off a sale rack at some discount store and she fills a hidden safe with musty old books?

Porte ta vie ailleurs, ô toi qui fus ma vie ; Verse ailleurs ce trésor que j'avais pour tout bien. Va chercher d'autres lieux, toi qui fus ma patrie, Va fleurir, ô soleil, ô ma belle chérie, Fais riche un autre amour et souviens-toi du mien.

Le coeur le plus aimant n'est qu'une vaste armoire. On fait deux tours, et puis voilà.

It is up to us, to this present generation of Americans, to take a stand for freedom, to send a message to Washington that we're taking our future back from the grips of central planners who would control our healthcare, who would spend our treasure, who downgrade our future and micro-manage our lives.

Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth's treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.

To truly cherish the things that are important to you, you must first discard those that have outlived their purpose. And if you no longer need them, then that is neither wasteful nor shameful. Can you truthfully say that you treasure something buried so deeply in a cupboard or drawer that you have forgotten its existence?

There is a department of treasury in Heaven, which says God is watching over everything you do and you are storing up eternal treasure that will go so far beyond what we can even imagine.

Clean water is such a treasure that we take for granted in America.

If I'm on a beach I'm the one to find the ammonite, or in a field I'll find the four-leaf clover.

Anything nerd-wise, I have probably collected it, and it's displayed in our apartment.

I've probably got about 300 books. I love collecting books.

I have a lot of sapphires in my collection.

I'm a collector of everything.