Treasure Quotes

If out of all mankind one finds a single friend, he has found something more precious than any treasure, since there is nothing in the world so valuable that it can be compared to a real friend.

Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a treasure of foreign skills and customs that would enrich the resources of American living.

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

The Union, which can alone insure internal peace, and external security to each State, Must and Shall be Preserved, cost what it may in time, treasure, and blood.

I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.

Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism.

As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery.

What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older.

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

The Sun in London ran a front page declaring my bum a national treasure. I really did laugh at that. Its not like it can actually do anything, except wiggle.

Bear Valley is the hidden treasure of the Sierra.

Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!

Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth's treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

I grew up in an era where an orchestra was like a treasure chest.

The best part is that I'm still here and, because the end is in sight, I treasure it all more.

I can't tell you what an honor it is, to even be mentioned in the same breath with Arthur Ashe. This is something I certainly will treasure forever.

People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

Like Venice, Italy, New Orleans is a cultural treasure. And everyone who lived in the city should be allowed to come back. But that doesn't mean that they all should live in exactly the same spot that they lived before.

I've gotten to know a number of readers from being online, and really treasure the time I've spent with them.

It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.