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Precious Quotes (page 19)

I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember. Evelyn Waugh
Every second he breathed, the smell of the grass, the cool air on his face, was so precious: To think that people had years and years, time to waste, so much time it dragged, and he was clinging to each second. J. K. Rowling
Randall laid his hand on Stella's, but only to remove it from his sleeve. "My precious, you really must have some regard for my clothes," he said with gentle reproach. "Much as I love you, I cannot permit you to maul this particular coat. Georgette Heyer
John Burroughs quote: "If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I..."
If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature.... John Burroughs
No changing of place at a hundred miles an hour will make us one whit stronger, or happier, or wiser. There was always more in the world than man could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace. It does a bullet no good to go fast; and a man, if he be truly a man, no harm to go slow; for his glory is not at all in going, but in being. John Ruskin
This life's a long old road. We shouldn't have to walk alone. But if you find the right companion. You won't feel so worn out when you've grown. All life is precious. And every day's a prize. And sometimes you'll find an answer in the sky Elton John
Henry Ford quote: "There are three things that grow more precious with age; old..."
There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy. Henry Ford
Carson McCullers quote: "Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty."
Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty. Carson McCullers
God’s training is for now, not presently. His purpose is for this minute, not for something in the future. we have nothing to do with the afterwards of obedience; we can get it wrong when we think of the afterwards. what men call training and preparation, God calls the end… if we realize that obedience is the end, then each moment is precious. Oswald Chambers
You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. Jane Austen
Art is never the voice of a country, it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing its best to speak, not comfort of any sort, but truth. And the art that speaks it most unmistakably, most directly, most variously, most fully, is fiction... Eudora Welty
Patrick Henry quote: "Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessings - give us that..."
Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessings - give us that precious jewel and you may take everything else! Patrick Henry
There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious. Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year. Abraham Joshua Heschel
The quiet transition from autumn to winter is not a bad time at all. It's a time for protecting and securing things and for making sure you've got in as many supplies as you can. It's nice to gather together everything you possess as close to you as possible, to store up your warmth and your thoughts and burrow yourself into a deep hole inside, a core of safety where you can defend what is important and precious and your very own. Then the cold and the storms and the darkness can do their... Tove Jansson
True virtue never appears so lovely as when it is most oppressed; and the divine excellency of real Christianity is never exhibited with such advantage as when under the greatest trials; then it is that true faith appears much more precious than gold, and upon this account is "found to praise and honour and glory. Jonathan Edwards

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