Precious Quotes

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The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and… — Shirley Hufstedler
Football is like a religion to me. I worship the ball, and I treat it like a god. Too many players think of a football… — Unknown Author
I wonder what the vintners buy one half so precious as the stuff they sell. — Omar Khayyam
The most precious things in speech are the pauses. — Ralph Richardson
A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
By reserving the penalty of death for black defendants, or for the poor, or for those convicted of killing white persons, we perpetrate the ugly… — Joseph Lowery
In the performance of our responsibilities, I have learned that when we heed a silent prompting and act upon it without delay, our Heavenly Father… — Thomas S. Monson
I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give… — Walt Whitman
Each day's a gift of Life divine a precious jewel that's yours and mine! — John McLeod
She was not an adventure, she was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl. — John Green
A note of caution: We can never achieve goals that envy sets for us. Looking at your friends and wishing you had what they had… — Marcus Buckingham
My biggest sorrow, when looking back on my youth, is how much of it I somehow missed. Now, looking at my life today, I don't… — Marianne Williamson
So let's raise the tone of the debate. Too often at the moment we look like schoolchildren squabbling over a toy - our most precious… — Roz Savage
Such then in number and importance are the precious ties belonging to the Christian name which keep a believer in the Catholic Church, as it… — Saint Augustine
And the angel spake unto me, saying: Behold the gold, and the silver, and the silks, and the scarlets, and the fine-twined linen, and the… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
The first thing that a person finds in life and the last to which he holds out his hand, and the most precious that he… — Adolph Kolping
This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. It is beauty, like truth, which brings joy to the… — Pope Paul VI
Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous. — Abdelkader El Djezairi
The degree and duration of the torment of these degenerate and anti-Christian people, should be no other than would be approved of by those angels… — Isaac Newton
Our precious heritage of natural and unspoiled beauty and unpolluted streams, once exhausted and destroyed, can never be replaced. — Unknown Author
Time and experience have taught me a priceless lesson: Any child you take for your own becomes your own if you give of yourself to… — Dale Evans
True intimacy is a human constant. People of all types find it equally hard to achieve, equally precious to hold. Age, education, social status, make… — Robert Grudin
By multiplying the means of gratification, by promoting the introduction and circulation of the precious metals, those darling objects of human avarice and enterprise, it… — Alexander Hamilton
The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society. And indeed it would… — Thomas Jefferson
Is the relinquishment of the trial by jury and the liberty of the press necessary for your liberty? Will the abandonment of your most sacred… — Patrick Henry

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