Precious Quotes

As I've said before, time is short, and life is precious.

It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.

My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life.

When your life is as precious as all our lives are, then it needs to be kept precious and looked after and treated well. And that is not something we should be sharing with a wider audience.

Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.

You've gotten words about those American and Iraqi deaths and mutilations, but precious few images.

Life too is precious to waste - to spend on anything but the best.

But it has, in addition, an even more precious quality - a consciousness of the human intelligence, the human spirit and that man is a social creature.

Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.

One sees a blatant disregard for the precious souls of mankind.

Our highly qualified teachers not only work hard, but they care about each and every student that enters their classroom. I thank you, Montana teachers, for your sense of duty and compassion to our precious future generation.

And every human being is precious.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

You know, there're no rules between Russell and I. We don't want to have to have to talk too much, because it's really precious, really special to play music.

I've realized how precious life is. When I was younger, I was more adventurous. I felt invincible. I was game for everything. As a mom, I don't want to get injured because then I can't take care of my kids.

Truth is life's most precious commodity.

Sometimes a little compromise isn't a bad thing. You don't need to be precious about it.

I don't think there is anything hard at all about having a lot of songs. It makes it easier to be less precious about them, and know that everybody's going to want to work on some of them.

Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

My weekends are extremely precious.

Character is one of most precious parts of you. You can't get involved in things that will damage your character.

Time becomes more precious when you have children.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.

Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.