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Quotes About Treasure

I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember
~ Evelyn Waugh
Mi piacerebbe sotterrare qualcosa di prezioso in ogni posto dove sono stato felice e poi, una volta diventato vecchio brutto e povero, potrei sempre tornare a estrarlo e ricordare.
~ Evelyn Waugh
Een prima plek om een schat te begraven, zei Sebastian. Ik zou op elke plek waar ik gelukkig ben geweest iets kostbaars willen begraven, en dan kom ik, als ik oud en lelijk en ellendig was geworden, terugkomen en het opgraven en me alles weer herinneren.
~ Evelyn Waugh
When I was a child growing up in Maine, one of my favorite things to do was to look for sand dollars on the seashores of Maine, because my parents told me it would bring me luck. But you know, these shells, they're hard to find. They're covered in sand. They're difficult to see.
~ Sarah Parcak
You're not supposed to have a favourite book - it's like children.
~ Michael Robotham
A young gratuitous smile; trust and distrust; Promiscuities of bed and board and road; The one assured treasure A life, in recollection, truly possessed.
~ Robert Wells
all people, no matter how little they had, if in Paris, they possessed great treasure...Paris itself.
~ Robert Wheeler
That sense of time, ah, the diseased man's sense of time, what treasure hidden in a desert cave.
~ Roberto Bolano
life wouldn't be as much fun if we knew where its treasures were hidden. Sometimes you had to search for them. Sometimes you had to fight for them. And sometimes, they were at your feet. Either way, they were waiting. For you.
~ Lisa Scottoline
Ever hear of finders keepers?
~ Lisa Scottoline
It may be, replied Coll, smiling, we know least what we treasure most. But we will have more than enough to keep us busy when you come back, and you will learn, my boy, there is nothing like work to put the heart at rest.
~ Lloyd Alexander
He learned that the lives of men are short and filled with pain, yet each one a priceless treasure, whether it be that of a prince or a pig-keeper. And, at the last, the book taught him that while nothing was certain, all was possible. At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, Dallben murmured. And at the end of wisdom there is not grief, but hope.
~ Lloyd Alexander
I have the sword I fashioned,' Taran proudly cried, 'the cloak I wove, and the bowl I shaped. And the friendship of those in the fairest land of Prydain. No man can find greater treasure.
~ Lloyd Alexander
When you care about someone and give them something special. Something that they treasire. That's a gift.
~ Lois Lowry
Junius pocketed a fortune from this sudden windfall.
~ Ron Chernow
For these simples used aright Shall restore a failing sight. These shall cleanse and purify Webbed and inward-turning eye; These shall show thee treasure hid, Thy familiar fields amid, At thy threshold, on thy hearth, Or about thy daily path; And reveal (which is thy need) Every man a King indeed!
~ Rudyard Kipling
to him who has the ring, the spirit of the ring is obedient, whether he be Noureddin or Aladdin, and he who has the world's treasure, has it, however he got it.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Kaçarken bir yandan ipuçlar?yla dolu bir korsan haritas?na, üzerindeki X iÅŸaretlerinin ÅŸahs?mdan mürekkep bir hazineyi iÅŸaret ettiÄŸi korsan haritama çevirdim dünyay?. PeÅŸimdekiler b?rakt???m izleri sürüp geldikleri zaman beni ÅŸikâyetsiz, soluksuz, haz?r bekler bulacaklar. İşte burada duruyorum. Olaca?? buydu.
~ Salman Rushdie
Yenilgiye uÄŸram?? aÅŸk yine de bir hazinedir, aÅŸks?zl??? seçenler hiç zafer kazanmam?? demektir.
~ Salman Rushdie
Everyone has in him something precious that is in no one else.
~ Martin Buber
The immense success of our life is, I think, that our treasure is hid away; or rather in such common things that nothing can touch it.
~ Virginia Woolf
Vain onnettomuus voi kaivaa esiin ihmisälyssä piilevät salaperäiset aarteet; tarvitaan painetta, jotta ruuti räjähtää.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Every day he spoke of the immensity of the treasure, explaining to Dantes all the good a man could do for his friends in our modern times with such a fortune. At those moments Dantes' face would darken, for he thought of how much harm a man could do to his enemies in our modern times with such a fortune.
~ Alexandre Dumas
this is the first part of this precious manuscript
~ Alexandre Dumas