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.
~By Rudolf Arnheim ~
If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.
~By Simone Weil ~
The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources.
~By Bonnie Raitt ~
Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.
~By Epictetus ~
You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.
~By Corazon Aquino ~
Only he shakes the heavens and from its treasures takes our the winds. He joins the waters and the clouds and produces the rain. He does all those things. Only he realizes miracles permanently.
~By Michael Servetus ~
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
~By Dale Carnegie ~
The lips of the wise are as the doors of a cabinet; no sooner are they opened, but treasures are poured out before thee.
~By Akhenaton ~
Today America lost a great elder statesman, a committed public servant, and leader of the Senate. And today I lost a treasured friend. Ted Kennedy was an iconic, larger than life United States senator whose influence cannot be overstated. Many have come before, and many will come after, but Ted Kennedy's name will always be remembered as someone who lived and breathed the United States Senate and the work completed within its chamber.
~By Orrin Hatch ~
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
~By George Sand ~
People give me things at shows-the Robot from Japan. What I would treasure the most is a little doll of the general from the movie-and if they don't make it, I'll make my own and bring it to shows and sign it.
~By Mark Goddard ~
Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.
~By Marilyn French ~
I grew up in an era where an orchestra was like a treasure chest.
~By James Levine ~
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
~By Lao Tzu ~
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.
~By Jesus Christ ~
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
~By Lao Tzu ~
Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.
~By Tony Snow ~
It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours; one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first.
~By Hans Urs von Balthasar ~
Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
Many a treasure besides Ali Baba's is unlocked with a verbal key.
~By Henry Van Dyke ~
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.
~By Robert Walpole ~
The Union, which can alone insure internal peace, and external security to each State, Must and Shall be Preserved, cost what it may in time, treasure, and blood.
~By George B. McClellan ~
God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery.
~By Thom Gunn ~
Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.
~By Anthony J. D'Angelo ~
Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.
~By Leigh Hunt ~
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
~By Emma Goldman ~
There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?
~By Jim Bishop ~
Our nation's children are our greatest asset and our most precious treasure.
~By Christopher Dodd ~
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
~By Og Mandino ~
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
~By Buddha ~
The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land.
~By John Jakes ~
I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.
~By Rick Moody ~
It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.
~By Kate DiCamillo ~
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
~By Lao Tzu ~
People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.
~By Laurence Sterne ~
Inside every human being there are treasures to unlock.
~By Mike Huckabee ~
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
~By Thornton Wilder ~
One who roams the channels after dark, searching for buried treasure.
~By Harriet Van Horne ~
Much has been said and continues to be said of what little concern the Turks had for the Acropolis treasures.
~By Melina Mercouri ~
Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.
~By John Milton ~
For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.
~By Isaac Bashevis Singer ~
Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
~By O. Henry ~
Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
~By Camille Paglia ~
The privilege of being at the university for four years is something I'll always treasure.
~By Hank Brown ~
Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.
~By Margaret Fuller ~
Like Venice, Italy, New Orleans is a cultural treasure. And everyone who lived in the city should be allowed to come back. But that doesn't mean that they all should live in exactly the same spot that they lived before.
~By Ed McMahon ~
On Earth, we still have a beautiful atmosphere that precisely maintains a thermally driven climatic system that shelters, shields and sustains our natural treasures.
~By Jay Inslee ~
I'm an ocean, because I'm really deep. If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures.
~By Christina Aguilera ~
We have a certain group of people in this country that seem to want to lock up our national treasures, our national parks, and cherished places and keep the public from enjoying them.
~By Don Sherwood ~
To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.
~By Akhenaton ~
Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.
~By Prem Rawat ~
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
~By Joseph Campbell ~
Men wholly bent on wordly treasures were the dupes of their own passions, rather than deceived by the writings or pretenses of those who claimed to be Alchemists.
~By Ethan A. Hitchcock ~
The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.
~By May Sarton ~
Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!
~By Lawrence G. Lovasik ~
The Smithsonian museums are among this country's most endearing treasures and I look forward to helping maintain and enhance their coveted works of art.
~By Xavier Becerra ~
Relics are treasured as something close to the divine.
~By Sarah Vowell ~
A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.
~By Louisa May Alcott ~
Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.
~By Thomas Fuller ~
Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
~By William Penn ~
Each man in his way is a treasure.
~By Robert Falcon Scott ~
Unless action is taken soon - unless we can display the same vision of that earlier period - we will lose the treasure of California's open space and environmental beauty.
~By Adam Schiff ~
Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks.
~By Roger Caras ~
If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience.
~By John Charles Polanyi ~
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
~By Martin Luther ~
The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
~By Felix Bloch ~
A life-long blessing for children is to fill them with warm memories of times together. Happy memories become treasures in the heart to pull out on the tough days of adulthood.
~By Charlotte Davis Kasl ~
I can't tell you what an honor it is, to even be mentioned in the same breath with Arthur Ashe. This is something I certainly will treasure forever.
~By Jim Valvano ~
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.
~By Andreas Capellanus ~
The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
I don't have anything from the television series. I treasure the videotapes from Columbia House.
~By Mark Goddard ~
A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.
~By George Meredith ~
Bear Valley is the hidden treasure of the Sierra.
~By Lloyd Bridges ~
If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.
~By Yakov Smirnoff ~
In my public service, I treasure my friendship with law enforcement officers. I admire what they do and support them in every aspect of their job. I have always looked upon law enforcement officers as my friends.
~By Dirk Kempthorne ~
When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light.
~By Carol Ann Duffy ~
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
~By John Donne ~
A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.
~By J. R. R. Tolkien ~
I'm glad I made the decision, although the practice of law - and particularly serving as a federal judge - was a part of my life that I really enjoyed and treasured and look back on it with fondness.
~By George J. Mitchell ~
Christ's riches are unsearchable, and this doctrine of the gospel is the field this treasure is hidden in.
~By Thomas Goodwin ~
May love's kindred treasure box fling your luminescent glove.
~By Isabel Yosito ~
Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
~By Lord Byron ~
Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism.
~By Josef Skvorecky ~
The home should be the treasure chest of living.
~By Le Corbusier ~
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.
~By Marilyn Ferguson ~
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.
~By Walter Scott ~
To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?
~By Elizabeth II ~
Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine.
~By Richard Brinsley Sheridan ~
Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.
~By Christopher Columbus ~
Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.
~By Muhammad Ali Jinnah ~
In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown.
~By Felix Adler ~
War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
~By James Madison ~
The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.
~By Charlotte Bronte ~
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
~By Walt Disney ~
I don't have anything that I treasure at all. They're just things. I tend to buy an awful lot of stuff, like clothes and things. But I wouldn't be bothered if my house burns down tomorrow.
~By Robbie Williams ~
Children remind us to treasure the smallest of gifts, even in the most difficult of times.
~By Allen Klein ~
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