Quotes About Treasure

Il emportait un trésor de pieuses pensées, pourlesquelles le contact des folles joies de la mascherata eût été une profanation.

Conozco el precio del oro pero también el precio de la sangre; y en este momento la sangre es para nosotros más cara que el oro.

What people read revealed so much about them that she considered our card catalog a treasure house of privileged secrets; each card contained the map of an individual's soul.

Heart, soul, treasure, rain, sister, memory, knowledge, hope, will.

Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure. As soon as you let go of it, pride shrinks to the size of a fly, but one that has no head, and no tail, and no wings with which to lift itself off the ground.

Few people, very few, have a treasure, and if you do you must hang on to it. You must not let yourself be waylaid and have it taken from you.

The thing that was your bright treasure. You don't think about it. A loss you could not contemplate at one time, and now it becomes something you can barely remember

This is what happens. You put it away for a little while, and now and again you look in the closet for something else and you remember, and you think, soon. Then it becomes something that is just there, in the closet, and other things get crowded in front of it and on top of it and finally you don't think about it at all. The thing that was your bright treasure. You don't think about it. A loss you could not contemplate at one time, and now it becomes something you can barely remember.

You are a pot of gold, don't think I don' realize it.

He dug his fingers into the sand, threw it over himself in handfuls and audibly blessed it. It looked like diamonds, rubies, emeralds; he could not think of nothing beautiful which it did not resemble.

Young love is a treasure truly wasted on the young,

When you think of the possessions you now own or the ones you hope to own—or when you're envying others for what they have—remember that the scriptures also warn that where your treasure is, there your heart is also.

With age, gone are the forevers of youth. Gone is the willingness to procrastinate, delay, to play the waiting game. Now each day is a treasure beyond compare . . . because there are so few such diadems left.

There is treasure in you, waiting to be developed. Redeem the time. Make a decision to grow in some way every day. If you keep sharpening your skills, and getting better, God promises your gifts will make room for you. Like David, because you are prepared, I believe and declare God is about to thrust you into the fullness of your destiny. He will open doors that no man can shut. You will go further than you could imagine and become the winner He's created you to be.

Theirs is beauty's fairest pleasure; Theirs is wisdom's holiest treasure. Thou dost ever lead Thine own In the love of joys unknown.

Nothing is more highly to be prized than the value of each day

Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.

I followed all life's pleasures wherever they would lead, but someone I can treasure is all I really need.

It was the class and dignity which he led his life that made him part of all of us. I will forever treasure the close friendship we shared over the years.

To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.

It's as if we live in a house which has a vast treasury in one of its rooms. Only we've forgotten about it. So, instead of living a life of royalty, we go about in poverty.

They were seeking out the treasure of their destiny, without actually wanting to live out their destiny.

As he mused about these things, he realized that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as an adventurer in quest of his treasure.

And I'm excited when I find somebody stimulating to talk with. That's one of the great treasures in life.