Prized Quotes
87 quotes by 82 authors
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To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats,…
— Dennis Banks
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Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty)…
— Ambrose Bierce
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When you are older you will understand how precious little things, seemingly of no value in themselves, can be loved and prized above all price…
— Edwin Booth
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Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
— Orson Scott Card
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Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.
— Henry Clay
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When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go…
— John Cleese
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There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
— Thomas Aquinas
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True faith, a simple life, a helping hand- the three things prized most in Heaven.
— Frederick Buechner
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Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way in the world, without them it is like a great rough diamond, very well in a closet…
— Lord Chesterfield
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One of my prized possessions is still the prefect's tie that I got in this school. I keep it with me. It was the first…
— Julia Gillard
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Among these treasures of our land is water-fast becoming our most valuable, most prized, most critical resource. A blessing where properly used-but it can bring…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.
— Bill Russell
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Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always…
— Martial
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A pin lies in wait for every bubble. And when the two eventually meet, a new wave of investors learns some very old lessons: First,…
— Warren Buffett
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Real bibliophiles do not put their books on shelves for people to look at or handle. They have no desire to show off their darlings,…
— Robertson Davies
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If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.
— Sophocles
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First, many in Wall Street - a community in which quality control is not prized - will sell investors anything they will buy.
— Warren Buffett
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Father, let me be weak that I might loose my clutch on everything temporal. My life, my reputation, my possessions, Lord, let me loose the…
— Jim Elliot
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Salt is the only rock directly consumed by man. It corrodes but preserves, desiccates but is wrested from the water. It has fascinated man for…
— Margaret Visser
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What may begin as a temporary method to circumvent reasoned discussion and debate for the sake of a prized political goal may very well end…
— Jason Stanley
Who Wrote These Prized Quotes
82 authors contributed a total of 87 Prized Quotes, led by these top contributors: