Quotes About Treasure

Some people would look at this and see junk," I said. "Others see history.

I like Victorian children's novels extremely a lot. If I would say I collect anything, that's what I'll hunt for now and again at old book stores.

My brother is looking for a violin. He has to believe this one is special, perhaps one of the three our father owned, one of which our mother claimed hid a secret—the "recipe," as Sofia had said, writing in obvious code, to make the renowned Stradivarius violin worth tens of millions of dollars. But I don't care about the recipe. I care about finding my brother.

How do we fall in love? ... How different it is with friendship. No one picks a friend for us. We come together by choice. We are not tied together through ceremony or the responsibility to create a son. We tie ourselves together through moment. The spark when we first meet. Laughter and tears shared. Secrets packed away to be treasured, hoarded, and protected. The wonder that someone can be so different from you and yet still understand your heart in a way no one else ever will.

Dragons didn't fool around when it came to protecting things that they acquired—be it gold, gems, or a monster's body parts.

I can feel sympathy for his loss and his pain without affecting who I am and my opposition to all that Viktor Kain is and stands for. When we lose our empathy for others and allow our enmity to spiral downward and twist into mindless hate, we are no better than the Viktor Kains of the world. Compassion is our strength, not our weakness." She paused. "And it is a treasure that is meant to be shared. Do you understand?

And if you haven't got a single book, the idea of putting your hand on one is like Christmas and a birthday rolled up together.

Now we haven't got anything, and when you haven't got a single book, the idea of putting your hands on one is like Christmas and a birthday rolled up together.

Treasure isn't trouble 'cause it's so hard to find. Treasure is trouble because it reveals a man's heart.

So much the better. The higher the price you have to pay, the more you will cherish it.

It is hard to know what other way men can come to truth, to lay hold of it, if they do not dig and search for it as for gold and hid treasure; but he that does so, must have much earth and rubbish, before he gets the pure metal; sand, and pebbles, and dross usually lie blended with it, but the gold is nevertheless gold, and will enrich the man that employs his pains to seek and separate it.

I sit on the bed. I remember a golden bracelet, thin gold, an apple with a bite taken out of it for the clasp, and the words "I Love You," and I take it out from the box of treasures under the bed. I remember Mama said, "I mean it. Though we never say it in this family," as she put the bracelet around my wrist last Christmas. And I still believe her, what she said about love. We just never say it in this family.

The pleasure is mine, let me give some to you We can take our time, nothing I'd rather do To make you feel fine, to make your life shine Give you moments you can treasure forever Remember the pleasure is mine, mine, mine, all mine

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

Imagine Smaug's treasure hoard. Now imagine Smaug with crippling levels of obsessive-compulsive disorder and fanatic good taste.

An honest man is a rare treasure.

More than that, though, it gained a definite spiritual chill. Malevolent energy hovered around us, slow and thick like half-frozen honey. There was a gloating, miserly quality to it, bringing to my mind images of old Smaug lying in covetous slumber upon his bed of treasure.

Those who have such a family seldom realize how rare and precious it is.

After your friendship with God, your wife's friendship is the greatest treasure you possess.

There is no greater treasure than a husband who models godliness before his wife and children on a daily basis.

Treasure what you find already in your pocket, friend.

Hi ha moltes coses boniques al món; poques tant com els records. Hay muchas cosas bonitas en el mundo;pocas tan bonitas como los recuerdos

Protected from the sun by the half-blind that shields them, they gleam darkly, like sunken treasure, Aladdin's cave of sweet clichés.

What makes a treasure a treasure. Marine replied, is how rare a find it is, when you need it the most.