Treasure famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Most people now seem to treasure anything they value in proportion to the extent that it's followed about and surrounded by the vulgar public.
-- Ada Leverson -
The treasure I have found cannot be described in words, the mind cannot conceive of it.
-- Adi Shankara -
Our faces will become works of art that our grandchildren will treasure.
-- Adriana Trigiani -
The lips of the wise are as the doors of a cabinet; no sooner are they opened, but treasures are poured out before thee.
-- Akhenaton -
A road need not be paved in gold to find treasures at its end.
-- Alan Brennert -
Eventually we grow weary of seeking treasures outside ourselves and we begin to look within. There we discover that the gold we sought, we already are.
-- Alan Cohen -
Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.
-- Alice Hoffman -
Few people, very few, have a treasure, and if you do you must hang onto it. You must not let yourself be waylaid, and have it taken from you.
-- Alice Munro -
Make your world extraordinary! Step out into this world with confidence and treasure yourself.
-- Alli Simpson -
LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
A treasure...at the top of any list of fantasy to be cherished.
-- Andre Norton -
I read ' Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were. Later, I realised that Stevenson was interested in sequels, and I wondered whether he would have gone back to it had he lived longer.
-- Andrew Motion -
It's only before realities set in that we can treasure our delusions.
-- Anna Quindlen -
The world no longer lets me love, My hope and treasure are above.
-- Anne Bradstreet -
All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shriveled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut.
-- Anne Bronte -
I think Shakespeare is everybody's treasure.
-- Anne Fortier -
Finding an old friend is like finding a lost treasure.
-- Anthony D. Williams -
I liked her…I really liked her. I wanted to protect her. I approached her in a gentle, playful manner, because she's so precious and I wanted to hold her in my arms because she's so carefree. She was my treasure.
-- Arina Tanemura -
Criticism is properly the rod of divination: a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig for the castigation of offenders.
-- Arthur Symons -
I feel very happy since the Lord called me to step out in faith, and I obeyed. The Lord is our inexhaustible treasure.
-- Arthur Wallis -
Language forms a kind of wealth, which all can make use of at once without causing any diminution of the store, and which thus admits a complete community of enjoyment; for all, freely participating in the general treasure, unconsciously aid in its preservation.
-- Auguste Comte -
Your treasure house is within; it contains all you'll ever need.
-- Baizhang Huaihai -
To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
-- Ben Jonson -
...like the 75 billion souls who lived before him, each and every one a treasure, he, too, will die.
-- Ben Sherwood -
Everything is accessible to everyone all the time, and I think there are wondrous things to treasure with what the Internet has made available to journalists. But I think it's also had some effects that are less pleasant. It has chipped away at a sense of privacy and secrecy.
-- Bill Keller -
Let me introduce myself. My name is, uh, Kangaroo... Kangaroo — Captain Kangaroo... I'm the keeper here of the Treasure House.
-- Bob Keeshan -
When we sit, we open our own treasure house. Rather than do this, however, most of us first seek to find the treasures another person can provide. We calculate their value to us. When we approach relationships in this manner, we are coming as beggars, seeing the other as a source of supply. When we can enter a relationship with our treasure house already open, there is no end to the wonders we can find, both within and between ourselves and another.
-- Brenda Shoshanna -
Trust is that rare and priceless treasure that wins us the affection of our heavenly Father.
-- Brennan Manning -
A man’s greatest treasures are his illusions - Durzo Blint
-- Brent Weeks -
The most important thing you leave behind is the stuff that turns into treasures when children find it
-- Brian Andreas -
Happiness isn’t some elusive treasure we chase after. It’s a state of being we need to PRACTICE.
-- Brian Johnson -
How happy we would be if we could find the treasure of which the Gospel speaks; all else would be as nothing. As it is boundless, the more you search for it the greater the riches you will find; let us search unceasingly and let us not stop until we have found it.
-- Brother Lawrence -
There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.
-- Bryant H. McGill -
In those days Mr. Sherlock Holmes was still living in Baker Street and the Bastables were looking for treasure in the Lewisham Road.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Define your times. Treasure your calling. Pray without ceasing. The terrors of the age are less than the grandeur of the Christ within you.
-- Calvin Miller -
Tripping is embarrassing, but I have learned that where we stumble is the place we dig for gold—where we trip is where the treasure lies.
-- Calvin Miller -
I have noted that, barring accidents, artists whose powers wear best and last longest are those who have trained themselves to work under adversity. Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.
-- Catherine Drinker Bowen -
Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.
-- Catherine Drinker Bowen -
You Can't Kill the Spirit resonates with the voices and power of women around the globe who have refused to be either passive or violent but instead act firmly and imaginatively to oppose oppression in its many guises. A wonderful tonic for activists and a treasure for those who teach, these stories bring women's history to life.
-- Charlotte Bunch -
A punch should stay like a treasure in the sleeve. It should not be used indiscrimately.
-- Chotoku Kyan -
Any nerd who grew up around the time that I did, BBC programming was a treasure chest for us.
-- Chris Hardwick -
Our nation's children are our greatest asset and our most precious treasure.
-- Christopher Dodd -
Dive deep into the ocean, Sita, and you will find that the greatest treasures you find are the illusions you leave behind.
-- Christopher Pike -
I'm really glad that I spent my twenties messing around and having disaster after disaster - with people who were doing likewise - because it's really my greatest treasure now.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
Treasures are no longer to be got by instrumental art.
-- Clara Schumann -
Ramana Maharshi and Rumi would agree: the joy of being human is in uncovering the core we already are, the treasure buried in the ruin.
-- Coleman Barks -
It really matters to writers to find and treasure readers, all the more when they're on the other side of the world.
-- Colm Toibin -
The more clearly we see sins horror, the more we shall treasure the cross.
-- D. A. Carson -
Passion is a rare commodity. When you find it, treasure it and never give it up!
-- David Baldacci -
The trick is that you can't find the hidden treasure until you start digging. Often enough, if you take the leap and do something, something will happen. Probably not what you thought, but something.
-- Debbi Fields -
When you learn that you can trust life, life will deliver treasures beyond your imagination.
-- Debbie Ford -
No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
-- Democritus -
The world's forests are a shared stolen treasure that we must put back for our children's future
-- Desmond Tutu -
Life has abundant treasures, when your settings are on right.
-- Donnie Simpson -
The treasure shouldn't do the hunting, and you're a treasure.
-- Ed Asner -
A happy marriage is still the greatest treasure within the gift of fortune.
-- Eden Phillpotts -
Treasure the shadow. ... There are no shadows save from substance cast.
-- Edith M. Thomas -
We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.
-- Elie Wiesel -
Life is a Shylock; always it demands The fullest userer's interest for each pleasure. Gifts are not freely scattered by its hands; We make returns for every borrowed treasure.
-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox -
Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.
-- Epictetus -
...within you now and always is the unborn possibility of a limitless experience of inner stability and outer treasure, and yours is the privilege of giving birth to it. And you will, if you can believe.
-- Eric Butterworth -
The Word of God is a treasure map. That treasure map is the most valuable thing you have until you get to that treasure.
-- Eric Ludy -
There are few treasures of more lasting worth than the experiences of a way of life that is in itself wholly satisfying. Such, after all, are the only possessions of which no fate, no cosmic catastrophe can deprive us; nothing can alter the fact if for one moment in eternity we have really lived.
-- Eric Shipton -
Can any man say with certainty that he was happy at a particular moment of time which he remembers as being delightful? Remembering it certainly makes him happy, because he realizes how happy he could have been, but at the actual moment when the alleged happiness was occurring, did he really feel happy? He was like a man owning a piece of ground in which, unknown to himself, a treasure lay buried.
-- Eugene Delacroix -
If no one figures out you are pretending to be retarded, your life will be greeted with treasure.
-- Eugene Mirman -
There is, of course, a gold mine or a buried treasure on every mortgaged homestead. Whether the farmer ever digs for it or not, it is there, haunting his daydreams when the burden of debt is most unbearable.
-- Fawn M. Brodie -
I don't treasure things much - just people. And pets.
-- Felicity Kendal -
The greatest knowledge we can ever have is knowing God treasures us.
-- Francis Chan -
I had a little dog and my dog was very small....Of all the treasures that were mine, I loved him most of all.
-- Francis Cornford -
Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty.
-- Francis of Assisi -
Gold is Caesar's treasure, man is God's; thy gold hath Caesar's image, and thou hast God's.
-- Francis Quarles -
The natural world is a gift that we have the obligation to treasure and use carefully. It is our moral responsibility to protect it from damage, and to pass it on to our heirs in good condition. To do less is to dishonor the Giver and the gift.
-- Frederick Victor Grey Wymark -
One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves? It has rightly been said: "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also"; our treasure is where the beehives of our knowledge are.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
America should treasure its rare, true original voices and Mark Leyner is one of them. So treasure him already, you bastards!
-- Gary Shteyngart -
Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times...
-- George Ellery Hale -
A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.
-- George Meredith -
Laying up treasures in heaven will draw the heart heavenward.
-- George Muller -
Celebrate within yourself that wonderful treasure . . . true kindness.
-- George Sand -
Increasingly unable to create for itself a relevant body of myth, the modern imagination will ransack the treasure house of the classic.
-- George Steiner -
There's no time like the present, No present like time. And life can be over in the space of a rhyme. There's no gift like friendship And no love like mine. Give me your love to treasure through time.
-- Georgia Byng -
I wonder why / no one ever told me / that the rainbow / and the treasure / were both within me.
-- Gerald Jampolsky -
The love of woman is a precious treasure. Tenderness has no deeper source, devotion no purer shrine, sacrifice no more saintlike abnegation.
-- Germain-Francois Poullain de Saint-Foix -
That ship is loaded with treasure, but there's a hole in the ship. And my job is to get everyone to row in the same direction.
-- Gil Amelio -
Posterity will call you the great emancipator, a more enviable title than any crown could be, and greater than any merely mundane treasure.
-- Giuseppe Garibaldi -
[As of November 17, 2006] 'Noelle's Treasure Tale' has remained at No. 3 on the New York Times children's best seller list since its October 10 release.
-- Gloria Estefan -
Let us treasure up in our soul some of those things which are permanent..., not of those which will forsake us and be destroyed, and which only tickle our senses for a little while...
-- Gregory of Nazianzus -
Man is more than half of nature's treasure.
-- Hartley Coleridge -
He who has spent has used; he who has collected has lost; but he who has given has saved his treasure forever.
-- Hazrat Inayat Khan -
He that marries is like the dogs who was married to the Adriatic. He knows not what there is in that which he marries; mayhap treasures and pearls, mayhap monsters and tempests, await him.
-- Heinrich Heine -
Trust that the treasure we look for is hidden in the ground on which we stand.
-- Henri Nouwen -
the more I see of Italy and her treasures, the more I see paganism in Christianity ...
-- Henrietta Szold -
Many a treasure besides Ali Baba's is unlocked with a verbal key.
-- Henry Van Dyke -
The pleasant books, that silently among Our household treasures take familiar places, And are to us as if a living tongue Spake from the printed leaves or pictured faces!
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
