Treasure Quotes - page 11

Yes, I hate it when people call me a 'national treasure'. It takes away your bite and makes you feel like a harmless old golden Labrador. (Sue Townsend)
Do you know why a vandal is worse than a thief?' asked the man on the right, in a soft growl. ‘A thief steals a treasure from its owner. A vandal steals it from the world. View quote
Frances Hardinge
My anonymity is something I treasure. View quote
Blake Lively
Your soul's desire are with you at birth like a hidden treasure chest of possibilities for you to discover as you grow and evolve into the person you were meant to be. Give voice to what you long for in the deepest place in your heart. View quote
Debbie Ford
I loved every minute of my childhood - sunbathing on the fire escape, digging for buried treasure in the back yard, pulling alewives out of the sand... Then it was all taken away from me. I came back every summer to visit my father until I was 18, but I was always the outsider. View quote
Jennifer Egan
To be a soulful person means to go against all the pervasive, prove-yourself values of our culture and instead treasure what is unique and internal and valuable in yourself and your own personal evolution. View quote
Jean Shinoda Bolen
Love is a treasure for which we can never pay. The only way we keep it is to give it away. View quote
Jim Stovall
The greatest cause in the world is joyfully rescuing people from hell, meeting their earthly needs, making them glad in God, and doing it with a kind, serious pleasure that makes Christ look like the Treasure he is. View quote
John Piper
We Facebook users have been building a treasure lode of big data that government and corporate researchers have been mining to predict and influence what we buy and for whom we vote. We have been handing over to them vast quantities of information about ourselves and our friends, loved ones and acquaintances. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
One man's trash is another man's treasure, and the by-product from one food can be perfect for making another. View quote
Yotam Ottolenghi
My husband claims I have an unhealthy obsession with secondhand bookshops. That I spend too much time daydreaming altogether. But either you intrinsically understand the attraction of searching for hidden treasure amongst rows of dusty shelves or you don't; it's a passion, bordering on a spiritual illness, which cannot be explained to the unaffected. (Kathleen Tessaro)
Make your refrigerator or freezer like a treasure chest. View quote
Lidia Bastianich
In terms of writing, I think what most fiction writers treasure more than anything is the feeling that they're living for the length of a book inside another person. View quote
Lauren Groff
Who can say what obscure forces were then at work in a heart that had never been tamed? I was to ask myself that question over and over before I knew the answer - and then it was too late. Some secret remorse? Some unaccountable sorrow? Fear of seeing this incomparable happiness slip away from his grasp? And in that case, some terrible temptation to smash at once, and irrevocably, this rare treasure he had won ... View quote
Alain-Fournier
The men and women of the CIA are a national treasure. View quote
John O. Brennan
Love of India was the breath of life with Mr. Tilak and in it he has left to us a treasure, which can only increase, by use. The endless procession of yesterday shows the hold the great patriot had on the masses. View quote
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
My mom passed on her obsession of all things antique or vintage. I love to go thrift store shopping or explore any sort of garage sale. Treasure hunting is a family passion. View quote
Zoey Deutch
... The queen's mocking laughter cut in. "is your treasure, Lord Sheftu?" "Aye. The greatest treasure in Egypt-a maid whose loyalty cannot be bought. Whatever bargain we make, Daughter of the Sun, must include her freedom. View quote
Eloise Jarvis McGraw
I had fresh confirmation that acting contrary to present outward interest, from a motive of Divine love and in regard to truth and righteousness, and thereby incurring the resentments of people, opens the way to a treasure better than silver, and to a friendship exceeding the friendship of men. View quote
John Woolman
What treasure does the religious an possess in this, that when everything else fails he has God for his refuge and can look to a world where he is sure through Christ Jesus, that he will not be disappointed. View quote
Henry Kirke White
When my younger son was 13 years old, he asked me to read 'Swallows and Amazons' to him while he made models. He liked it so much that I ended up reading all thirteen of Ransome's books, including the ones that I missed out on. This led my son to 'Treasure Island,' 'Robinson Crusoe' and 'Coral Island.' (Michelle Magorian)
Without question, our public lands are America's treasure and are rich in diversity. I fully recognize and appreciate that there are lands that deserve special recognition and are better managed under the John Muir model of wilderness, where man is more of an observer than an active participant. View quote
Ryan Zinke
I was not yet inclined to live the life of a celibate.... I have taken a young wife of honest but middle-class family although everyone tried to persuade me to make a court marriage. But I feared pride, that inherent vice of the nobility, particularly in that sex, and that is why I chose one who would not blush to see me take my brushes in hand. And to tell the truth it would have been hard for me to exchange the priceless treasure of liberty for the embraces of an old woman. View quote
Peter Paul Rubens
O the protector of the three worlds; O the remover of the mortal pleasures of the devotees of the Hari; O the one, the resplendence of whose waters win over the brilliance of hundreds of moons; O the one who makes the Nandanavana (forest of the deities) bow down with the majesty of its great trees; O the forest of best among the descendants of Rāghu, you shine forth like the dense treasure of abstention. ॥ 7.11 ॥. View quote
Rāmabhadrācārya
In the year AH 427 (AD 1036)... he himself marched with an army to India, to reduce the fort of Hansy... Herein he found immense treasure, and having put the fort under the charge of a trusty officer, he marched towards the fort of Sonput. Depal Hurry, the governor of Sonput, abandoned the place, and fled into the woods; but having no time to carry off his treasure, it fell into the conqueror's hands. Musaood having ordered all the temples to be razed to the ground, and the idols to be broken proceeded in pursuit of Depal Hurry... View quote
Firishta