Quotes About Treasure

The promise of "treasure" has proven quite effective in luring Billy G. back to the island.

Pirate booty," said Grace. "You mean gold doubloons or those cheesy corn puffs?

Mathinna remembered what her mother had said about thinking of yourself as the thread of a necklace, the people and places you treasure as the shells. Maybe Wanganip and Hazel were saying the same thing: that if you love something it stays with you, even after it's gone.

Vivian said she wanted to clean out her attic. But I think what she really wanted was to see what was in those boxes one last time. And remember those parts of her life.

Once you have that feeling of that great mystery, any piece of information feels like a treasure trove. Whether it's a name or a place where somebody once was, it's a form of a connection that you thought you were never going to have.

Those proud of keeping an orderly desk never know the thrill of finding something they thought they had irretrievably lost.

When I was small I'd loved falconry's historical glamour. I treasured it in the same way children treasure the hope that they might be like the children in books: secretly magical, part of some deeper, mysterious world that makes them something out of the ordinary.

Protege todas las cosas que valoras dándolas, y así te asegurarás de no perderlas nunca.

I muse again on the dogmatic assertion which I often make that the countryman's relation to Nature must never be anything else but an alliance... When we begin to consider Nature as something to be robbed greedily like an unguarded treasure, or used as an enemy, we put ourselves in thought outside of Nature, of which we are inescapably a part.

That is why the theopathic maxim of the disciples of Ibn Arabi was not Ana'l Haqq "I am God " (Hallaj) , but Ana sirr al-l Haqq, "I am the secret of God," that is to say, the secret of love that makes His divinity dependent on me, because the hidden Treasure "yearned to be known" and it was necessary that beings exist in order that He might be known and know Himself.

Vereker's secret… the general intention of his books: the string the pearls were strung on, the buried treasure, the figure in the carpet.

Sin embargo, en los primeros años de la dinastía Ming, entre 1405 y 1433, China abordó una de las empresas navales más notables y misteriosas de toda la historia: el almirante Zheng He emprendió viaje con unas flotas compuestas por «barcos del tesoro», tecnológicamente sin precedentes, hacia lejanos destinos como Java, la India, el Cuerno de África y el estrecho de Ormuz.

A beautiful woman is worth her weight always in gold; but if she loves in addition, she has simply no price.

Youth is the one worthwhile treasure in this world, no matter how miserable the rest of life might be.

It is only man's egoism which wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure.

C'est l'égoïsme de l'homme qui seul veut enterrer la femme comme un trésor. Toutes les tentatives ont échoué qui ont voulu introduire — par des cérémonies consacrées, par des serments ou des contrats — la durée dans ce qu'il y a de plus mouvant au sein de la mouvance de l'être humain, dans l'amour.

It is merely the egoism of men, who wants to bury a woman like a treasure. All attempts at using vows, contracts, and holy ceremonies have failed to bring permanence into the most changeable aspect of changeable human existence, namely love. Can you deny that our Christina world is rotting?

Book of Life says, "Where your heart is, there your treasure is also."3

A real man, the kind of man a woman wants to give her life to, is one who will respect her dignity, who will honor her like the valuable treasures she is. A real man will not attempt to rip her precious pearl from its protective shell, or persuade her with charm to give away her treasure prematurely, but he will wait patiently until she willingly gives him the prize of her heart. A real man will cherish and care for that precious prize forever.

As women, wea re given a great give: our purity. And everything that makes us who we are emotionally - our feminine nature, our sensitivity, our vulnerability, and our desire to give ourselves fully to one man - is part of that gift. Our purity is a treasure. it is so much more than just our physical virginity, it starts with who we are on the inside.

Others will be allowed to succeed in making money…but it is likely God will keep you poor, because He wants you to have something far better than gold, and that is a helpless dependence on Him, that He may have the privilege of supplying your needs day by day out of an unseen treasury.

Climb to the treasure house of blessing on the ladder made of divine promises. By a promise as by a key open the door to the riches of God's grace and favor.

Tomorrow I'll take you out to see the gold beetles. They're amazing: they eat dirt and poop out gold ore.