Precious Quotes

If out of all mankind one finds a single friend, he has found something more precious than any treasure, since there is nothing in the world so valuable that it can be compared to a real friend.
Andreas Capellanus

Nothing, Single, Friend

My kids are more precious to me than anything. I'm with them all day, and I write all night.
Danielle Steel

Night, Kids, Write

An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
Felix Adler

Life, Human, Desire

It is done... the precious portrait placed in the hands of the gentlemen for safe keeping.
Dolley Madison

Done, Hands, Safe

You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences.
Stella Adler

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.
Queen Elizabeth II

Peace, War, Suffering

Life is precious and there's not a lot of room for anger.
Fran Drescher

Life, Anger, Room

Life is short. I'm 47 years old. I've got 10 years to go where I can be the best I can be. I want those 10 years to be precious, not like before, cranking two or three movies a year. I've made a ton of movies in my life, but so what?
Jean Claude Van Damme

Life, Best, Movies

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.
Boris Yeltsin

Important, Thinking, Thought

Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty!
James Monroe

May, Country, Liberty

The United States is locked in a new arms race for that most precious resource - the future entrepreneurs upon whom economic growth depends. Substantial research shows that immigrants play a key role in American job creation.
Eric Ries

Future, Job, Play

When you're in danger of losing a thing it becomes precious and when it's around us, it's in tedious abundance and we take it for granted as if we're going to live forever, which we're not.
John McGahern

Live, Around, Losing

My closest friend is canine. I have precious few close friends, and most of them are not actors.
Judd Nelson

Friend, Friends, Few

I think in vitro is a miracle and it has given me my precious little baby boy.
Cindy Margolis

Baby, Miracle, Boy

I've realized how precious life is. When I was younger, I was more adventurous. I felt invincible. I was game for everything. As a mom, I don't want to get injured because then I can't take care of my kids.
Kristi Yamaguchi

Life, Mom, Care

You've gotten words about those American and Iraqi deaths and mutilations, but precious few images.
Bruce Jackson

Words, American, Few

We need to appreciate how precious life is.
Shelley Fabares

Life, Appreciate

The independence of the United States is not only more precious to ourselves but to the world than any single possession.
Henry Cabot Lodge

Single, Ourselves, United

The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere.
Maria Mitchell

Children themselves know they are being cheated. Ultimately we owe it to our children. They are in school for 190 days a year. Every moment they spend learning is precious. If a year goes by and they are not being stretched and excited, that blights their life.
Michael Gove

Life, Learning, School

It's true, too, that I'm tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are too precious and wonderful to be used for long in such a fashion.
Yann Martel

Tired, True, Long

Every life is precious.
Emmylou Harris

We trust something in a grocery store and assume it's good. We don't learn about the most precious thing in life-the food we put in our body. Educate yourself!
Paul Prudhomme

Trust, Good, Food

Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose.
David Brainerd

Time, Good, Away

Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.
Felix Adler

Human, Lost, Together

Anyone who has played the game professionally, you're always taught that the ball is the most important, most precious thing, so when the ball hits the ground, it's always a mad scramble. It's amazing how many times there is a fumble, and the person who recovers it initially doesn't walk away with the ball.
Barry Sanders

Amazing, Important, Game

I'm immensely grateful for the precious gift my mother has given me. She is my hero today and every day.
Steven Cojocaru

Today, Mother, Hero

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
George Gissing

Time, Money, Truth

I play a female Indiana Jones, a professor who hunts down precious objects, like a bowl that belonged to the Buddha. They tailored the role to me: I wanted to be smart, funny, and to kick some ass.
Tia Carrere

Funny, Smart, Down

That was the big effect Lord of the Rings had on me. It was discovering New Zealand. And even more precious were the people- not at all like the Australians.
Ian Mckellen

Big, Lord, Effect

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