Treasure Quotations

The home should be the treasure chest of living.

The Word of God is a treasure map. That treasure map is the most valuable thing you have until you get to that treasure.

Treasure each other in the recognition that we do not know how long we shall have each other.

Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a treasure of foreign skills and customs that would enrich the resources of American living.

Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks.

A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.

Books were the window from which I looked out of a rather meager and decidedly narrow room onto a rich and wonderful universe. I loved the look and feel of books, even the smell... Libraries were treasure houses. I always entered them with a slight thrill of disbelief that all their endless riches were mine for the borrowing.

Everything is accessible to everyone all the time, and I think there are wondrous things to treasure with what the Internet has made available to journalists. But I think it's also had some effects that are less pleasant. It has chipped away at a sense of privacy and secrecy.

One who roams the channels after dark, searching for buried treasure.

I don't treasure things much - just people. And pets.

The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself.

Treasure the things about you that make you different and unique.

Christ's riches are unsearchable, and this doctrine of the gospel is the field this treasure is hidden in.

I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.

The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset.

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Profits on the exchange are the treasures of goblins.

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.

Trust is that rare and priceless treasure that wins us the affection of our heavenly Father.

Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.

Bear Valley is the hidden treasure of the Sierra.

If depression has taught me one thing, it is this: what a rare and beautiful treasure is the simple human gift of joy. For me now, joy - our capacity to delight in one another and in the world - is the reason why we are here. It is as simple as that. And I feel compelled to spread the word.

Inside every human being there are treasures to unlock.

I think probably the first time I wanted to be an artist was when I was about six or seven years old. I used to get British comics and I clearly remember seeing my first American comic: an issue of 'Action Comics', with Superman on the cover with a treasure horde in a cave, and Lois saying something like 'I don't believe Superman is a miser!'

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

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.

Through the eight books in 'The Treasure Chest' series, readers will meet twins Maisie and Felix and learn the secrets and rules of time travel, where they will encounter some of these famous and forgotten people. In Book 1, Clara Barton, then Alexander Hamilton, Pearl Buck, Harry Houdini, and on and on.

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.

Treasures are no longer to be got by instrumental art.

Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.

The Sun in London ran a front page declaring my bum a national treasure. I really did laugh at that. Its not like it can actually do anything, except wiggle.

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. I treasure it in the sense that I believe it's a path of great courage. It can also be the path of the foolhardy and the compulsive.

Children remind us to treasure the smallest of gifts, even in the most difficult times.

I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.

Treasure is the kind of thing you dig up... or bury! And when people say, 'Oh, he's an icon,' well, an icon is a very old painting hanging in a Russian church! If you want to say something, say something nice about me. Don't call me a national treasure.

Any nerd who grew up around the time that I did, BBC programming was a treasure chest for us.

And every now and then people find the bugs, and they interpret those as cool failures in the Sims terms. For them it's like a treasure hunt, you know.

Our nation's children are our greatest asset and our most precious treasure.

Always, some great culture is dying to enrich the soil of new harvests, some civlization is crumbling to rubbish to be the hill of a more beautiful city, some race is spending itself that a lower and more barbarous world may inherit its stored treasure house.

Each man in his way is a treasure.

To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?

People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy

It is up to us, to this present generation of Americans, to take a stand for freedom, to send a message to Washington that we're taking our future back from the grips of central planners who would control our healthcare, who would spend our treasure, who downgrade our future and micro-manage our lives.

What I treasure most at any moment is intimacy, surprise, a sense of mystery, wit, depth and love. A handful of cherished friends offer me this, and the occasional singer or film-maker or artist. But my most reliable sources of electricity are Henry David Thoreau, Shakespeare, Melville and Emily Dickinson.

I've gotten to know a number of readers from being online, and really treasure the time I've spent with them.

I have been blessed in many ways, and one of those is to have been born in Africa, for me a great treasure house of stories. I have been researching it since my infancy; reading about it, talking to men and women who have spent their lives in this land, living it as I have and loving it as I do. I write almost entirely from my own experience.

The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure

Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.

Many a treasure besides Ali Baba's is unlocked with a verbal key.

Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine.

It's the libertarians who want to reclaim decision-making for themselves. It's the small government folks who see government as a great Leviathan gobbling up more and more of their treasure and freedoms.

Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.

I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement - and our record of having the nation's highest voter participation.

People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

Do I think I'm a national treasure? I don't see why not? I don't see why I shouldn't be. I'm a good lad, really.

I am thrilled to write 'The Treasure Chest,' and to bring to life not only the childhoods of famous people from history, but also the characters of Maisie and Felix, who I hope you will fall in love with just as I have!

A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.

Once I realized the emptiness of life apart from knowing God, when I embraced God and the truth of the gospel and the truth of the Bible, it was a no-brainer decision to see that that was a treasure that was infinitely more valuable than some sort of an atheistic Hollywood party life.

A book store is a treasure chest. Every time you walk in one, you strike gold.

Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

We all have common frailties but we need to treasure friends more.

I treasure my meetings with individuals affected by autism - parents, children, teachers and friends. Their strength is inspiring. They deserve all possible opportunities for education, employment and integration.

We treasure the word of God not only by reading the words of the scriptures, but by studying them. We may be nourished more by pondering a few words, allowing the Holy Ghost to make them treasures to us, than to pass quickly and superficially over whole chapters of scripture.

The scriptures make the danger of delay clear. It is that we may discover that we have run out of time. The God who gives us each day as a treasure will require an accounting.

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.

Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth's treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.

We also can't try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That's not leadership; that's a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It's the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq - and we should have learned it by now.

The plethora of special effects -- some dazzling, some clumsy -- make "Harry Potter" at times resemble a generic Hollywood horror movie. That three-headed dog that stands guard over a treasure was better left to the imagination. . .

There is no one like him alive today. He was a vast treasure trove and storehouse of musical and cultural knowledge and the richness that he has brought into all of our lives is immeasurable. He was a generous spirit, overlooking faults in order to see the common humanity that we all share and this is the quality that I will miss the most. For a man who has seen some of the most repulsive and ugly aspects of human nature to transform that knowledge into the beauty and grace that he does is an uplift and hope for citizens of the world.

There is no one like him alive today, ... He was a vast treasure trove and storehouse of musical and cultural knowledge and the richness that he has brought into all of our lives is immeasurable. He was a generous spirit, overlooking faults in order to see the common humanity that we all share and this is the quality that I will miss the most. For a man who has seen some of the most repulsive and ugly aspects of human nature to transform that knowledge into the beauty and grace that he does is an uplift and hope for citizens of the world.

We're going to treasure every evening, have a good time, and go out on a high note.

Working separately, environmental success is limited, ... The unprecedented partnership of the Great Lakes Regional Collaboration has brought all our partners to the table to ensure the Great Lakes remain an international treasure -- forever open to trade and tourism.

I've been given a gift [musical talent] - don't misuse it. I spent a lot of time just wasting that talent, not treasuring it, not valuing it, not respecting it, just taking it for granted. That was a hard lesson to learn. It doesn't come for free. Don't do that. Treasure it, respect it, treat it as a responsibility that you've been given, and enjoy the hell out of it.

Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.

I have noted that, barring accidents, artists whose powers wear best and last longest are those who have trained themselves to work under adversity. Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.

A contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.

Whoever seeks God as a means toward desired ends will not find God. The mighty God, the maker of heaven and earth, will not be one of many treasures, not even the chief of all treasures. He will be all in all or He will be nothing. God will not be used.

The man who has God for his treasure has all things in one.

You Can't Kill the Spirit resonates with the voices and power of women around the globe who have refused to be either passive or violent but instead act firmly and imaginatively to oppose oppression in its many guises. A wonderful tonic for activists and a treasure for those who teach, these stories bring women's history to life.

Let me introduce myself. My name is, uh, Kangaroo... Kangaroo — Captain Kangaroo... I'm the keeper here of the Treasure House.

The Bible was written in tears, and to tears it yields its best treasures.

The treasure shouldn't do the hunting, and you're a treasure.

Mankind are always found prodigal both of blood and treasure in the maintenance of public justice.

The more we treasure the words of the prophets and apply them the better we will recognize when we are drifting off course-even if only by a matter of a few degrees.

When people bury treasure nowadays they do it in the Post-Office bank.

...like the 75 billion souls who lived before him, each and every one a treasure, he, too, will die.

Happiness isn’t some elusive treasure we chase after. It’s a state of being we need to PRACTICE.

The most important thing you leave behind is the stuff that turns into treasures when children find it

The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry is a breezy, big-hearted treat, especially if you've ever wondered about the inner workings of America's national treasures--neighborhood bookstores.

We have a workforce in the Treasure Coast that is mostly in the service industry. It doesn't have to be that way.

Criticism is properly the rod of divination: a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig for the castigation of offenders.

How happy we would be if we could find the treasure of which the Gospel speaks; all else would be as nothing. As it is boundless, the more you search for it the greater the riches you will find; let us search unceasingly and let us not stop until we have found it.

We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.

Language forms a kind of wealth, which all can make use of at once without causing any diminution of the store, and which thus admits a complete community of enjoyment; for all, freely participating in the general treasure, unconsciously aid in its preservation.

We are all wealth. We are all treasure. We are the abundance of all things. Spend yourself completely.