Treasured Quotes

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Reading, Book

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.69, Graphic Arts Books

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• 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

  Art, Musician, Would Be

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Law, Practice, Judging

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• Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.

  David O. McKay

  Giving, Choices, Earth

  LDS General Conference Report, p. 32, April, 1950.

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• Relics are treasured as something close to the divine.

  Sarah Vowell

  Divine, Relics

  Sarah Vowell (2005). “Assassination Vacation”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.

  Walter Anderson

  Eulogy, Listening, Good Listener

  Walter Anderson (1986). “Courage is a three-letter word”, Random House Inc

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• I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Character, Past, World

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov”, p.480, Vintage

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• 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

  Style, Made, Resources

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• Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Independence, India

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• Dare to visualize a world in which your most treasured dreams have become true.

  Ralph Marston

  Dream, World, Dare

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• Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wings And some are treasured for their markings - They cause the eyes to melt Or the body to shriek without pain.

  Craig Raine

  Pain, Eye, Wings

  Craig Raine (2016). “My Grandmother's Glass Eye: A Look at Poetry”, p.155, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Healthy church membership means you find your joy in being last, instead of seeking your way and being first.

  Thom S. Rainer

  Mean, Joy, Healthy

  Thom S. Rainer (2013). “I Am a Church Member: Discovering the Attitude That Makes the Difference”, p.73, B&H Publishing Group

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• Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer.

  Ed Cunningham

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Today's minor irritations may become tomorrow's treasured memories. We often don't know what we are missing, until it's missing.

  William P. Young

  Memories, Irritation, Missing

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

  John the Apostle

  Animal, Pet, Family Friends

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• Then read from the treasured volume the poem of thy choice, and lend to the rhyme of the poet the beauty of thy voice.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beauty, Voice, Choices

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Complete in One Volume”, p.108

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• A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain. It can be and is often treasured by the recipient for life.

  George D. Prentice

  Kindness, Vain, Words Of Kindness

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• She could not explain or quite understand that it wasn't altogether jealousy she felt, it was rage. And not because she couldn't shop like that or dress like that. It was because that was what girls were supposed to be like. That was what men - people, everybody - thought they should be like. Beautiful, treasured, spoiled, selfish, pea-brained. That was what a girl should be, to be fallen in love with. Then she would become a mother and she'd be all mushily devoted to her babies. Not selfish anymore, but just as pea-brained. Forever.

  Alice Munro

  Love, Beautiful, Girl

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• These are icons to be treasured.

  Robert Stack

  Icons

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• She gathers my half of the blankets around her and curls up against the wall. She will sleep for hours more, dreaming endless landscapes and novas of colour both gorgeous and frightening. If I stayed she would wake up and describe them to me. All the mad plot twists and surrealist imagery, so vivid to her while so meaningless to me. There was a time when I treasured listening to her, when I found the commotion in her soul bitter-sweet and lovely, but I can no longer bear it.

  Isaac Marion

  Love, Dream, Sweet

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Meaningful, Memories, People

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• In Christ alone God’s rich provision of salvation for sinners is treasured up: by Christ alone God’s abundant mercies come down from heaven to earth. Christ’s blood alone can cleanse us; Christ’s righteousness alone can cleanse us; Christ’s merit alone can give us a title to heaven. Jews and Gentiles, learned and unlearned, kings and poor men--all alike must either be saved by the Lord Jesus, or lost forever.

  J. C. Ryle

  Jesus, Kings, Men

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• 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

  Self, Anxiety

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

  Nelson Mandela

  Children, Conviction, Assets

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• We may be thankful that frightened civil authorities ... have not managed to eradicate from the country the tradition of the possession and use of firearms, that profound and almost instinctive tradition of Americans. Luckily for us, our tradition of bearing arms has not gone from the country, the tradition is so deep and so dear to us that it is one of the most treasured parts of the Bill of Rights - the right of all Americans to bear arms, with the implication that they will know how to use them.

  John Steinbeck

  Country, Rights, America

  John Steinbeck (2009). “Bombs Away: The Story of a Bomber Team”, p.31, Penguin

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