Quotes About Treasure

No doubt he thought: This woman owns thousands of books and yet she's unwilling to lend me even one. But I treasure this volume, and I doubt that he'd be able to appreciate a single word of it.

Loeb has been doing wonderfully patient work, exploring the American conscience from the inside. I regard him as something of a national treasure.

God hides treasure in dirt, so that only those humble enough to dig through it find it.

The only pleasure in redecorating or moving house comes from stumbling across books that I'd almost forgotten I owned.

True love is the most enduring of all of life's worldly possessions, never tarnishing over time, but ever to remain bright and brilliant in the light of love.

Quality will be prized as a precious possession.

Diligence is a priceless treasure; prudence a protective charm.

Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold - it can only be cherished.

The secret of a happy life isn't buried in a treasure chest... it lies within your heart.

A best friend it like a four leaf clover - Hard to find, and lucky to have.

Offensiveness is a necessary consequence of opinions strongly held and openly expressed, and free societies should treasure and protect it. An idea that offends no one is not worth entertaining.

When Joseph Conrad saw how Europeans behaved in Congo in 1890, he described them as "reckless without hardihood, greedy without audacity, and cruel without courage…To tear treasure out of the bowels of the land was their desire, with no more moral purpose at the back of it than there is in burglars breaking into a safe." More than a hundred years later, not much has changed.

There was a lot more that I wanted to tell her, like that everything in this beautiful treasure house of a world breaks, and sometimes things break so bad all you can do is hope to get your heart to stop bleeding long enough for you to sift through the ashes so you can try to gain some slight understanding. But some things that break real bad can be mended if you're lucky enough to have someone on your side with a ton of glue who won't give up."--Vicki Grove, Everything Breaks

Unless action is taken soon - unless we can display the same vision of that earlier period - we will lose the treasure of California's open space and environmental beauty.

I'm talking like just the beauty, but at the same time to get people to realize that we should treasure it. Maybe visualize it, but leave it alone. A

All beauties are to be honored, but only one embraced.

I want to hear the word 'cherish' about 5 times.

Un buen libro es la preciosa savia del alma de un maestro, embalsamada y atesorada intencionadamente para una vida más allá de la vida.

Un buen libro es la preciosa savia del alma de un maestro, embalsamada y atesorada intencionadamente para una vida más allá de la vida y, como tal, no hay duda de que debe ser una artículo de primera necesidad

Mrs. Grace Cahill….

They dont understand what real treasure is. They see it in gold and copper, and tin. They see in herds of horses or cattle. They gather treasures to themselves, building great storehouses, which they guard ferociously. Then they die. What good is it then?

Everything and everyone we treasured in this world comes to an end. I loved the world not for itself but for the marvelous gift that it was, and my only hope against eventual despair was to love something larger than the world, larger even than a near-infinite sparkling universe full of worlds.

When someone gives you a special gift, never treat it lightly. If you treat it like a treasure, then it'll be one.