Quotes About Precious Objects

#1. and all of the books are behind metal grates, protected like the precious objects they are.

Jenny Han

#2. I play a female Indiana Jones, a professor who hunts down precious objects, like a bowl that belonged to the Buddha. They tailored the role to me: I wanted to be smart, funny, and to kick some ass.

Tia Carrere

#3. Useless and precious objects. Taking up space. Taking up time.

Maira Kalman

#4. Furlough?" He said.
"What?" said the first hood irritably.
Despereaux shuddered. His own brother was delivering him to the dungeon. His heart stopped beating and shrunk to a small, cold, disbelieving pebble.

Kate DiCamillo

#5. Don't you think company is more precious than all these objects?

Joanne Owen

#6. Our daughters are the most precious of our treasures, the dearest possessions of our homes and the objects of our most watchful love.

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

#7. Ludwik Szatera was a passionate lover of nostalgia. He could never come to terms with the eternal passage of men, objects and events. Each moment inexorably turning into the past was to him precious, invaluable, and he witnessed its passing with a sense of inexpressible regret.

Stefan Grabinski

#8. Life has to go on...............

Ruby

#9. You shall not fold your wings that you may pass through doors, nor bend your heads that they strike not against a ceiling, nor fear to breathe lost walls should crack and fall down

Kahlil Gibran

#10. As in many countries precious metals belong to the crown, so here more precious natural objects of rare beauty should belong to the public.

Henry David Thoreau

#11. Never much of a fantasy fan, I knew one thing for certain: Odell Greenry loved Precious every bit as much as Gollum loved his "precious." And while both objects of obsession could be possessed neither could be mastered.

Mandy Broughton

#12. I have a dream: that in my job, everything goes a bit faster. Five minutes hair, make-up five minutes, ten minutes and ready for a good picture. That would make life much easier.

Lara Stone

#13. As the conceptual, material world increases its hold on us, and inanimate objects become more lifelike, we humans must become more human. Open hearts, kindness and care-these are our most precious gifts.

Sakyong Mipham

#14. Broken Horses is an artistic triumph. Beautifully written, acted and imaged, this film wraps slowly around you like a king snake and squeezes,

James Cameron

#15. Our backyard looked like a marketplace. Valuable objects, precious rugs, silver candlesticks, Bibles and other ritual objects were strewn over the dusty grounds- pitiful relics that seemed never to have had a home. All this under a magnificent blue sky.

Elie Wiesel

#16. 18 Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting for those who belong to the Lord. 19 Husbands, love your wives and never treat them harshly.

Gary Chapman

#17. The shark is fierce, the whale is mighty, but the ocean is both.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#18. Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us for they contain our very thoughts, our ambitions, our indignations, our illusions, our fidelity to the truth, and our persistent leanings to error. But most of all they resemble us in their precious hold on life.

Joseph Conrad

#19. Treating myself like a precious object will make me strong.

Julia Cameron

#20. Their song reminds me of a child's neighborhood rallying cry - ee-ock-ee - with a heartfelt warble at the end. But it is their call that is especially endearing. The towhee has the brass and grace to call, simply and clearly, "tweet". I know of no other bird that stoops to literal tweeting.

Annie Dillard

#21. To be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running

Richard Branson

#22. If smallness was fortune, then I had come across a treasure, infinitesimal and beyond value. I felt lucky. You had to decide what was estimable and precious in your life and set out to find it. The objects you valued defined you.

Pat Conroy

#23. Maybe everything we do is meaningless. But we have to try, don't we? We have to go on looking for justice ... and settling for revenge.

Joan D. Vinge

#24. There was nothing humane about humanity. At the end of the day, they were all
animals with only survival instincts.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#25. But I will be,
A bridegroom in my death, and run into't
As to a lover's bed.

William Shakespeare