Treasure Quotes - page 13

The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset. (Roberto Unger)
My past is very interesting, and I treasure it, but to write about it, it's just not on my radar. View quote
Steve Vai
Through the years I've found that I prefer live playing to recording. I still do lots of recording - but I treasure the live shows. View quote
Tony Levin
As I try to get around with a guitar, a banjo and a suitcase of high heels and dresses, I treasure that little ukulele. View quote
Valerie June
It's not an old book, or a treasure map. Nope. Staring up at me was a pile of rocks. View quote
Wendy Mass
A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine. View quote
Vera Nazarian
The only real treasure is in your head. Memories are better than diamonds and nobody can steal them from you. View quote
Rodman Philbrick
The public treasure has been duly applied to the uses to which it was appropriated by Parliament, and regular accounts have been annually laid before Parliament, of every article of expense. View quote
Robert Walpole
When everyone at school is speaking one language, and a lot of your classmates' parents also speak it, and you go home and see that your community is different -there is a sense of shame attached to that. It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different. View quote
Sonia Sotomayor
I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. View quote
John Adams
Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure. (Felix Bloch)
While I am certainly not asking you to close your eyes to the experiences of earlier generations, I want to advise you not to conform too soon and to resist the pressure of practical necessity. Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure. View quote
Felix Bloch
I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
Where your treasure is, there also will be your heart. View quote
Paulo Coelho
They were seeking out the treasure of their destiny, without actually wanting to live out their destiny. View quote
Paulo Coelho
From that day on, it was the desert that would be important. She would look to it everyday, and would try to guess which star the boy was following in search of his treasure. She would have to send her kisses on the wind hoping that the wind would touch the boy's face, and would tell him that she was alive. View quote
Paulo Coelho
As much as we Egyptians treasure our military, acting alone it cannot provide the legitimacy to lay the foundations for democracy. View quote
Mohamed ElBaradei
Every humane and patriotic heart must grieve to see a bloody and causeless rebellion, costing thousands of human lives and millions of treasure. View quote
Thaddeus Stevens
Every humane and patriotic heart must grieve to see a bloody and causeless rebellion, costing thousands of human lives and millions of treasure. But as it was predetermined and inevitable, it was long enough delayed. Now is the appropriate time to solve the greatest problem ever submitted to civilized man. View quote
Thaddeus Stevens
When we call to mind the fact that this persecution is waged against men for the simple reason that they dare vote with the party that saved the Union intact by the lavish expenditure of blood and treasure, and has borne the nation safely through the fearful crisis of these last few years, our hearts swell with an overwhelming indignation. View quote
Joseph Hayne Rainey
As they say, art is pleasure, invention is treasure, and this nation has got to recognise that. If they can spend a fortune on dead sheep and formaldehyde, then it can spend a bit more of that money on inventors. (Trevor Baylis)
I muse again on the dogmatic assertion which I often make that the countryman's relation to Nature must never be anything else but an alliance... When we begin to consider Nature as something to be robbed greedily like an unguarded treasure, or used as an enemy, we put ourselves in thought outside of Nature, of which we are inescapably a part. View quote
Henry Beston
Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
I always look at it as - it's like a treasure map, and each little detail in it, you sort of look at it for information and it points you in the right direction, to tell you where you need to go. View quote
Michelle Pfeiffer
The Bible is a treasure. It contains enough to make us rich for time and eternity. It contains the secret of happy living. It contains the key of Heaven. It contains the title-deeds of an inheritance incorruptible, and that fadeth not away. It contains the pearl of great price. Nay, in so far, as it reveals them as the portion of us sinful worms, it contains the Saviour, and the living God Himself. View quote
James Hamilton (1814-1871)