Quotes About Treasured Things

#1. In my South, the most treasured things passed down from generation to generation are the family recipes.

Robert St. John

#2. flute. As I stood in the doorway, he lingered over it, then, carefully rewrapping it, placed it in his box of treasured things. I never saw the flute again. *

Mildred D. Taylor

#3. This is my life now. Absurd, but unpredictable. Not absurd because unpredictable but unpredictable because absurd. If I have lost the meaning of my life, I might still find small treasured things among the spilled and pilfered trash.

Joyce Carol Oates

#4. The sublime beauty was almost hidden withing the castle walls. She believed that the treasured things in life were often hard to find - a pearl in an oyster shell, a kind word in the heat of the moment.

F.C. Malby

#5. The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources.

Bonnie Raitt

#6. If you want to be great at something, be great at being your most treasured self. Life is about connection, and how can you give apart of yourself to someone; too hold onto, if you don't know which part they want most?

Nikki Rowe

#7. You are loved, you are beautiful, you are treasured, and you are a daughter of the living God.

Sheila Walsh

#8. And of all the words I have hidden and saved and treasured, these are the ones I will never forget, the most important ones of all.

Ally Condie

#9. I recall the look in Rhauk's eyes the moment he spotted Kate. It will stay with me forever, carved into my brain like an engraving on a headstone. It's as if he found something he treasured, something he's been looking for all his life.

Marianne Curley

#10. Kiss someone like kissing is the only way you have to communicate. There is no conversation. There is no sex. There are only two sets of lips that are ravenous to be recognized and treasured.

Roberto Hogue

#11. After a burglary of all her most valued and treasured possessions, Winston Churchill's aging mother wrote: "That burglar relieved me of an obsession. For years, I've had to take houses big enough to hold all these bibelots. I am almost grateful to him."

Anne Sebba

#12. I was simply in love with my daughter and how she viewed her world. The literal way in which she took it all in and took it on. I knew it wouldn't last long and so I treasured every moment I saw and heard of it.

Michael Connelly

#13. When the souls rise up in glory, yours shall not be shunned nor sunderered, but shall be the prize of the gods' gardens. Even your darkness shall be treasured then, and all your pain made holy.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#14. A non-treasured Christ is a nonsaving Christ.

John Piper

#15. Reps once took chances on art, History's most treasured musicians were believed in and cultivated to reach their potential. Today, it would be difficult for those musicians to get deals.

Steve Vai

#16. Anyway, my point is (I know, I know, there is one), I don't want to be
one of those easily forgotten people, so important at the time, so special, so
influential, and so treasured, yet years later just a vague face and a distant
memory. I want us to be best friends forever, Alex.

Cecelia Ahern

#17. Family is a unique gift that needs to be appreciated and treasured, even when they're driving you crazy. As much as they make you mad, interrupt you, annoy you, curse at you, try to control you, these are the people who know you the best and who love you.

Jenna Morasca

#18. It is my deepest conviction that the children should be seen and heard as our most treasured assets.

Nelson Mandela

#19. Tranquillity hides in small spaces, and when found needs to be treasured, because you know it's a phantom that will slip away again.

Diane Ackerman

#20. I imagined what it would be like to hold a butterfly in your hands something bejeweled and treasured and to know that despite your devotion it was dying by degrees.

Jodi Picoult

#21. When you are confident that you are the Father's treasured possession, you are also confident that his loving care will continue forever. Building warehouses is a waste of time and space. His gifts to you become things you want to give him back in gratitude. Then he gives you even more.

Edward T. Welch

#22. When we come to the end of our days, the little things will seem so unimportant compared to how well we've loved, laughed and treasured our lives and loved ones.

Charlotte Sophia Kasl

#23. Relationships abhor a vacuum. Whenever one person refuses to mark and fight for their territory the other person will occupy the treasured ground either by default or by committing an act of aggression.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#24. we have already received the most treasured gift, the most amazing sacrifice of all. What God gave, His most prized possession - the most prized possession - His Son.

Renee Andrews

#25. Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, about your fretted roofs.

Horace

#26. Love was a thing to be treasured, not tossed around from one person to the next.

Abbie Duncan

#27. No one of us is less treasured or cherished of God than another. I testify that he loves each of us
insecuritie s, anxieties, self-image, and all.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#28. Life could snatch away the things you treasured, and there was no getting them back. She began to feel an urgency, a need to seize an opportunity. Before anyone else did.

M.L. Stedman

#29. What if you believed that those characteristics that the beige army (or an 8-year-old kid) say are 'too weird' are the very things that deserve to be treasured?

Marianne Cantwell

#30. I still feel childlike. Not childish - there's a difference. But to be childlike is to be savoured and treasured. I offer my books to those who like the things of childhood; the challenges, intrigue, joy and fun.

Graeme Base

#31. How do you explain to a nonreader that books aren't just things but treasured friends? Companions?

Laura Jensen Walker

#32. He treats books like treasured, rare things, and I guess they are, but my father used to dog-ear books and read them until they fell apart, and I like his method better

Beth Revis

#33. It is possible to make each year bring with it a lasting gift to add to the fullness of experience, to be treasured up, savored, and remembered. They need not be startling, these gifts of the years; they may be things that lie within the reach of all.

Grenville Kleiser

#34. Love is fragile
she was thinking
but perhaps the pieces are saved, the things that hovered on lips, that might have been said. The new love-words, the tenderness learned, and treasured up for the next lover.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#35. So have a day of pleasure Do things that make you smile For ... you are treasured Today and all the while.

Janet Horne

#36. She was my wife. My most valuable possession; I treasured her. But I loved her slutty and dirty, too. A sexual object for my pleasure. The one woman who could silence the memories in my head and set me free.

Sylvia Day

#37. May today's short moments of joy become treasured memories in the future.

Nanae Chrono

#38. It is now clear that faith is a singular pledge of paternal love, treasured up for the sons whom he has adopted.

John Calvin

#39. Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories. The past is never dead, it is not even past.

William Faulkner

#40. So often the most meaningful moments in our lives are those that we share with our families. Treasured memories are created by celebrating, sharing and embracing the moments of life with the people we love.

Sandra Magsamen

#41. Dizzy love turned a star lily pink,
And hung above our lids too flushed to blink,
But icy blue froze the fairytale cold,
Though I treasured you and you sparkled with someone to hold.

Owl City

#42. It was a husk, no longer truly their mother - more like their mother's most treasured possession, which had been given to them as a parting gift.

Michel Faber

#43. Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

Henry David Thoreau

#44. The most treasured and sacred moments of our lives are those filled with the spirit of love. The greater the measure of our love, the greater is our joy. In the end, the development of such love is the true measure of success in life.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#45. Let me tell you a secret, a tremendous and wonderful secret. Let me share with you something so valuable that any schoolboy would gladly trade his most treasured procession to find out what I shall tell you.

Maxwell Grantly

#46. I grew up playing in youth orchestras, so they were my most treasured memories, so to be in front of an orchestra playing my own material would be incredible.

Laura Mvula

#47. Life is sad enough, Magir. Laughter is a thing to be treasured.

David Gemmell

#48. You've seen the world, and all you've seen is nothing; and everything, as well, that you have said and heard is nothing. You've sprinted everywhere between here and the horizon; it is nothing. And all the possessions you've treasured up at home are nothing.

Omar Khayyam

#49. I dreamed of death the way previously I'd dreamed of the pain leaving me, and the way before that I'd dreamed of gardens and children and weekends away. Death was my elusive lover, treasured and longed for and jealously guarded, and always distant. Always out of reach.

Elizabeth Haynes

#50. If the war had taught her anything, it was to take nothing for granted: that it wasn't safe to put off what mattered. Life could snatch away the things you treasured, and there was no getting them back.

M.L. Stedman

#51. Before the day my grandmother shared her treasured letters with me, I honestly wasn't much of a fiction reader, let alone creative writer.

Kristina McMorris

#52. What good being object of charity? Give away, ne'er turn to ask in return, Should there be the wealth treasured in thy heart.

Swami Vivekananda

#53. Now, there is a wonderful thing in this world called "foresight". It is a gift treasured above all others because it allows one to know what the future holds. Most people with foresight end up wielding immense power in life, often becoming great rulers or librarians.

Jonathan Auxier

#54. Life is truly a miracle and must be protected, safeguarded and treasured.

Q.M. Herrera

#55. But to speed it along, he needs to know that pain will come. The knack is to not engage the pain, not hold on to it like a treasured thing, but to simply let it pass through and wait until it's gone. It will come less frequently and after a time, be gone.

Raymond E. Feist

#56. I'm glad I made the decision, although the practice of law - and particularly serving as a federal judge - was a part of my life that I really enjoyed and treasured and look back on it with fondness.

George J. Mitchell

#57. Feelings, she learned, were hard to fight. She treasured his smiles and compliments and tried not to dwell on the fact that he gave this things to his friend Kel.
His dreamy-eyed gazes, poems, and fits of passionate melancholy were for Uline. It was hard not to resent the older girl.

Tamora Pierce

#58. You have treasured people, places, and things. They are precious and powerful. Fight for them. Don't just let them lounge in the back of your mind. A love ignored will wither and die.

Jessica Hagy

#59. My most treasured possessions are not things; they are only things, my friends, family and animals are what counts.

John The Apostle

#60. The dimensions of the radio are truly to be treasured.

Charles Osgood

#61. The Maker was a genius, he thought. Infinity resulted in insolence. But transience was the way one treasured what one had been given.

J.R. Ward

#62. I don't want to be
one of those easily forgotten people, so important at the time, so special, so
influential, and so treasured, yet years later just a vague face and a distant
memory.

Cecelia Ahern

#63. If I had known how easy it is to lose your life, I would have treasured mine better.

Yangsze Choo

#64. The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow everything your high-born teachers tell you without takinga long hard look at it yourselves.

David Eddings

#65. The most treasured asset in investment management is a steady hand at the tiller.

Robert D. Arnott

#66. We can never completely fulfill the promise of this treasured republic if we are blinded by color.

Tom Brokaw