Top 100 To Cherish Quotes
#1. If there's anything I've learned in my three centuries, it's that I would rather feel pain, sorrow, and misery than go through life feeling nothing. I have learned to cherish my humanity with all it's beauty and bile.
Brittany Comeaux
#2. Winter comes to balance the warm glow of summer and to teach us to cherish it. A few minutes outside in the cold helps me to remember that.
Debora Geary
#4. If we really want to cherish religious freedom, people who want to believe that same-sex marriage should take place, they have a right to believe that, and people who want to believe it's inappropriate, we should not demonize those people - if we really believe in religious liberty.
Foster Friess
#5. He gave her what no one else had ever been able to give. A past to cherish. A present to
enjoy. A future to anticipate
Gena Showalter
#6. All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there is no wilderness left to cherish.
Aldo Leopold
#7. You have neither wife nor child (without any sexual feeling, she longed to cherish that loneliness) ...
Virginia Woolf
#8. We ought to cherish the body. Our body's substance is not from an evil principle, as the Manicheans imagine, but from God. And therefore, we ought to cherish the body by the friendship of love, by which we love God.
Thomas Aquinas
#9. It is more to my personal happiness and advantage to indulge the love and admiration of excellence, than to cherish a secret envy of it.
Elizabeth Montagu
#10. It is something great and greatening to cherish an ideal; to act in the light of truth that is far-away and far above; to set aside the near advantage, the momentary pleasure; the snatching of seeming good to self; and to act for remoter ends, for higher good, and for interests other than our own.
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
#11. The path to enlightenment is really very simple - all we need to do is stop cherishing ourself and learn to cherish others. All other spiritual realisations will naturally follow from this.
Kelsang Gyatso
#12. For all the tribulations in our lives, for all the troubles that remain in the world, the decline of violence is an accomplishment that we can savor - and an impetus to cherish the forces of civilization and enlightenment that made it possible.
Steven Pinker
#13. To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
Wendell Berry
#14. A tiny blue dot set in a sunbeam. Here it is. That's where we live. That's home. We humans are one species and this is our world. It is our responsibility to cherish it. Of all the worlds in our solar system, the only one so far as we know, graced by life.
Carl Sagan
#15. This intriguing 'somewhere else,' where intelligence no longer matters and awareness melts away, commands us to cherish our remains of innocence -- because of all the characteristics of human nature, the richest by far is passion for the perfectly useless.
Hans W. Silvester
#16. When you find people who not only tolerate your quirks but celebrate them with glad cries of "Me too!" be sure to cherish them. Because those weirdos are your tribe.
A.J. Downey
#17. Still, there's no denying that in some sense I 'feel better,' and with that comes at once a short of shame, and a feeling that one is under a sort of obligation to cherish and foment and prolong one's unhappiness.
C.S. Lewis
#18. I think with my hands. I design things to be touched-not for a museum. A piece is ready when it has the shape of something to cherish.
Eva Zeisel
#19. As I grow older, I think friendship between women is a thing to cherish.
Susan Glaspell
#20. Adoration is the spontaneous yearning of the heart to worship, honor, magnify, and bless God. We ask nothing but to cherish him. We seek nothing but his exaltation. We focus on nothing but his goodness.
Richard J. Foster
#21. Because there is nothing here than invites us to cherish unhappy lovers. Nothing is more vain than to die for love. What we ought to do is live.
Albert Camus
#22. If I am to cherish anything to the fullest I must humbly embrace it as an undeserved 'privilege,' for to nonchalantly handle anything as other than a 'privilege' is to handle things of immense value and in the holding be entirely oblivious to what I'm holding.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#23. The owner of the Agut d'Avignon had the air of a 1920s dandy who had ruined himself with one mad night of gambling at baccarat and had only been saved by this restaurant, which he seemed to cherish as if it were his wife or a good fountain pen.
Manuel Vazquez Montalban
#24. We know that happiness is short-lived, that we fail to cherish it when it is within our grasp and value it only when it has vanished forever.
Jose Saramago
#25. Fiction was a way for me to escape into another world. I would lose myself and all my shame, insecurity, and fear in those books. I would let time slip away in the pages of other worlds. Reading was a life long gift I grew to cherish.
Daniel D. Maurer
#26. If we are to cherish freedom, and to guard it, we must remember what the alternative is: the bread of affliction and the bitter herbs of slavery.
Jonathan Sacks
#27. I had been so focused on what to discard, on attacking the unwanted obstacles around me, that I had forgotten to cherish the things that I loved, the things I wanted to keep.
Marie Kondo
#28. I have come to understand that every day is something to cherish.
Kerri Strug
#29. It is not good for man to cherish a solitary ambition. Unless there be those around him, by whose example he may regulate himself, his thoughts, desires, and hopes will become extravagant, and he the semblance, perhaps the reality, of a madman
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#30. It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object , than to attempt to make men mere machines and instruments of political benevolence. The world on the whole will gain by a liberty, without which virtue cannot exist.
Edmund Burke
#31. Time is kinder than we think,' thought Anne. 'It's a dreadful mistake to cherish bitterness for years ... hugging it to our hearts like a treasure.
L.M. Montgomery
#32. It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
Audre Lorde
#33. Today, I choose to cherish myself like a beloved child. I treat myself gently and with compassion. Practicing alert attention, I find delight in the small treasures of the day. I allow meaningful moments to assume enhanced perspective. Counting these blessings, I enrich my impoverished heart.
Julia Cameron
#34. At some stage in your life you need to stop fighting for others and look at who fights for you. Only then you will truly know who to cherish and who to fight for.
Albert Besselaar
#35. The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
Max Eastman
#36. I love you. If I ever do hurt you, it won't be because I don't care. Don't let everything we've gone through be for nothing. I swear to cherish you like you deserve, and someday I promise you'll see I'll be the kind of man who deserves you.
K.M. Scott
#37. I wanted him [my father] to cherish and approve of me, not as he had when I was a child, but as the woman I was, who had her own mind and had made her own choices.
Adrienne Rich
#38. Michelle Kwan means more to the United States Olympic Committee than maybe any athlete that's every performed. She's a leader, she's been gracious, she's somebody to cherish forever. She's a real loss to the United States Olympic Committee, to the United States of America and, I think, to the world.
Peter Ueberroth
#39. Who wants to become a writer? And why? ... It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower of life, even if it's a cactus.
Enid Bagnold
#40. I am speaking of the life of a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children; who has undertaken to cherish it and do it no damage, not because he is duty-bound, but because he loves the world and loves his children.
Wendell Berry
#41. T. Wiggett Jones: It should be illegal ... to feel this rotten ... without a variety of loathsome memories to cherish.
Wild Wild West (TV) First Season: Night of the Grand Emir
Michael Garrison
#42. Sitting there at one twenty in the afternoon in a maroon Chrysler, I told myself that I had to cherish that magical moment, because there was no guarantee that I would never again know what it felt like to hear that for the first time.
Ahmir Questlove Thompson
#43. I can live this life. I can. I can. It's a spark I want to cherish, a splutter of life in the flat battery; but just at the wrong moment I catch a glimpse at the night sky ... , and I can see that there's nothing out there at all.
Nick Hornby
#44. Do you not think we would be wiser to cherish each moment we have as God's gift? I would say 'tis better to love and be loved, if only for a day, than to have not loved at all.
Jody Hedlund
#45. Both my study of Scripture and my career in entertaining children have taught me to cherish them.
Walt Disney
#46. The things that seem insignificant to most people such as a note, song or walk become invaluable treasures kept safe in your heart to cherish forever.
Bob Marley
#47. We need to cherish Father Sky and honor Mother Earth.Every THING has a purpose. Every ONE has worth. (Short story entitled THE PUZZLE, found in a book, Foxleaf Anthology, collection of works from authors in the Upper Cumberland, TN)
KoKo Nervelli
#48. She comforted him in his darkness and gave him hope. She seemed to cherish a sincere affection for him, despite his failings. 'She saved me'.
Sylvain Reynard
#49. I would have done better to cherish my good memories. I know that you were trying to protect me, and I admire you for that. I wish now that I had let you."- Aimee (Marked Book #1) page 288
A.N. Meade
#51. We should write an elegy for every day that has slipped through our lives unnoticed and unappreciated. Better still, we should write a song of thanksgiving for all the days that remain-now that we know how to cherish them.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#52. Do not seek truth; merely cease to cherish opinions.
Dean Sluyter
#53. And soon you will be my wife to have and to hold ... To love and to cherish ... "With my body I will worship you." Christian Grey
Fifty Shades Darker, E.L.James
E.L. James
#54. Gradually we can begin to cherish the preciousness of our whole life just as it is, with its ups and downs, its failures and successes, its roughness and smoothness.
Pema Chodron
#55. If we want an America of heroes, we need to cherish our heroes of the past.
Harry Crocker
#56. Kindness does not require us to be blind to facts or to live in fancies, but it does require us to cherish a habit of goodwill, ready to show pity if sorrow appears, and slow to turn away even if hostility appears.
Alexander MacLaren
#57. Learning to cherish others is the best solution to our daily problems, and it is the source of all our future happiness and good fortune.
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
#58. A man is seldom more manly than when he is what you call unmanned,
the source of his emotion is championship, pity, and courage; the instinctive desire to cherish those who are innocent and unhappy, and defend those who are tender and weak.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#60. To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients, by which the wealth of a nation may be promoted.
Alexander Hamilton
#61. What a strange,old-fashioned thing to think. Bless you. But what other way was there of saying that you wanted only good for somebody, that you wanted the world to be kind to her, to cherish her?Only old-fashioned words would do for that.
Alexander McCall Smith
#62. Cancer does not win if we die. It wins if we fail to cherish Christ.
John Piper
#63. And now I finally have a chance to treat you the way you deserve - to cherish you the way a woman should be when a man loves her. And all you can do is stare at the prince.
Sara B. Larson
#64. The people who make us happy are never the people we expect. So when you find someone, you've got to cherish it.
Skins
#65. Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.
John Fowles
#66. Most people never realize that loneliness is a gift from God. Not only can it draw us closer to Jesus, it can teach us to cherish a long-awaited marriage relationship all the more.
Eric Ludy
#67. Human life is something that comes to us from beyond this world, and the purpose of our society is to cherish it and to enable the individual to attain the highest achievement of which he is capable
Harry Truman
#68. Do not search for the truth; Only cease to cherish opinions.
Sengcan
#69. You've already said this is your dream job. And forgive me if I'm wrong, but I promised before God, Reverend Walsh, and a congregation of our nearest and dearest to 'cherish you, uphold your hopes and dreams, and keep you safe at my side.'
E.L. James
#70. The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting grief is reproof to their neglect.
Marguerite Yourcenar
#71. To cherish and learn from the past is to enrich our lives.
Fennel Hudson
#72. Sometimes we let the first ones get away, but it teaches us to cherish the second ones that much more.
Claire Contreras
#73. In order to lead a meaningful life, you need to cherish others, pay attention to human values and try to cultivate inner peace.
Dalai Lama XIV
#74. You must all, somewhere deep in your hearts, believe that you have a special beauty that is like no other and that is so valuable that you must not abandon it. Indeed, you must learn to cherish it.
Sophia Loren
#75. Woman naturally seeks to embrace that which is living, personal, and whole. To cherish, guard, protect, nourish and advance growth is her natural, maternal yearning.
Edith Stein
#76. With earnest prayers to all my friends to cherish mutual good will, to promote harmony and conciliation, and above all things to let the love of our country soar above all minor passions, I tender you the assurance of my affectionate esteem and respect.
Thomas Jefferson
#77. Young woman, fresh face, I don't want to know your name. I don't want to cherish and fatten my love for you. You aren't the end of my love, but its awakening, its beginning.
Hermann Hesse
#78. And to cherish you for as long as we both shall live.
E.L. James
#79. What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from an equal to cherish: it is a God to adore.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#80. It's a great thing, to cherish your loved ones and to treasure everything around you.
Sakura Tsukuba
#81. A faithful worship leader magnifies the greatness of God in Jesus Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit by skillfully combining God's Word with music, thereby motivating the gathered church to proclaim the gospel, to cherish God's presence, and to live for God's glory.
Bob Kauflin
#82. With typical arrogance, the Anglos claimed to cherish freedom of speech but failed to recognize this right for anyone but themselves. Where did the Constitution say anything about English?
James Crawford
#83. To cherish someone means to have the resolve to hurt then
Wataru Watari
#84. We all have only one life to live on Earth, and through television we have the choice of encouraging others to demean this life or to cherish it in creative, imaginative ways.
Fred Rogers
#85. I used to say ... 'Don't sweat the small stuff
not even the big stuff.' At the end of the day, none of it matters but your own joy, your own spiritual journey that you go on, God, your loved ones, your friends, your animals. These are the things you've got to cherish and love and embrace.
Christina Applegate
#86. Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
Calvin Coolidge
#87. A cause is a cold thing to die for. To die to protect the people you count as friends, people you have laughed with, and grown to cherish, that is a gift.
Andrea K. Host
#88. It almost feels like I have the best of both worlds in a sense. I also respect the fact that all of this could be over tomorrow so I do everything I can just to cherish the moments and days and these opportunities I have to share music that I believe in with these people who care about it.
Chuck Ragan
#89. Hope-to cherish a desire with expectation of fulfillment.
Joan Bauer
#90. Someday your child will be full of wants. What they'll want more than anything, whether they know it or not, is for you to cherish them.
Peter Geye
#91. The law of nature instructs most animals to cherish and educate their infant progeny. The law of reason inculcates to the human species the returns of filial piety.
Edward Gibbon
#92. History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what do do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things come from.
Jill Lepore
#93. No generous mind delights to oppress the weak, but rather to cherish and protect.
Anne Bronte
#94. City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.
Edward Hoagland
#95. And it has always been a mystery, and I've marveled a thousand times at this ability of man (and, it seems, of the Russian man above all) to cherish the highest ideal in his soul alongside the greatest baseness, and all that in perfect sincerity.
The Adolescent (or, The Raw Youth)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#96. Inverted totalitarianism, unlike classical totalitarianism, does not revolve around a demagogue or charismatic leader. It finds expression in the anonymity of the Corporate State. It purports to cherish democracy, patriotism, and the Constitution while manipulating internal levers.
Chris Hedges
#97. To support mother and father, to cherish wife and children, and to be engaged in peaceful occupation - this is the greatest blessing.
Gautama Buddha
#98. Loss should teach us to cherish those we love, to never do anything that will result in regret, and to cheer on tomorrow with all of its promises of greatness.
Samantha Young
#99. An awe so quiet I don't know when it began.
A gratitude had begun to sing in me.
Was there some moment dividing song from no song?
When does dewfall begin?
When does night fold its arms over our hearts to cherish them?
When is daybreak?
Denise Levertov
#100. Because you promised? But you've promised me load of things. Like to cherish me and to love till death do us part.
Marian Keyes
