Famous Quotes & Sayings

Democritus

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

Elizabeth Edwards

This diagnosis is a reminder that this is the life you've got. And you're not getting another one. Whatever has happened, you have to take this life and treasure and protect it.

Camille Paglia

Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.

William Shakespeare

He that is strucken blind can not forget the precious treasure of his eyesight lost.

Benjamin Franklin

Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith.

Bryant H. McGill

We are all wealth. We are all treasure. We are the abundance of all things. Spend yourself completely.

Bryant H. McGill

We are here to spend ourselves on others; for each person is a great treasure.

Brother Lawrence

How happy we would be if we could find the treasure of which the Gospel speaks; all else would be as nothing. As it is boundless, the more you search for it the greater the riches you will find; let us search unceasingly and let us not stop until we have found it.

Edmund Burke

He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors.

Tom Snyder

Misers are no fun to live with but they make great ancestors

Jeff Jackson

My generation, our generation, isn't so much concerned with where you're from. We don't have as much of a connection, a feel for the politics of our ancestors ... we are losing the idea of separate identities between the North and South.

Joy Harjo

My ancestors include Monahwee, who was one of the leaders in the Red Stick War, which was the largest Indian uprising in history, and Osceola, who refused to sign a treaty with the United States.

Will Rogers

My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they were there to meet the boat.

Will Rogers

My ancestors didn't come over in the Mayflower -- they met the boat.

Richard Flanagan

My ancestors came from Co Roscommon, transported to Van Diemen's Land for stealing food.

Proverb Proverb

From our ancestors come our names from our virtues our honor.

Kate Forsyth

When our ancestors crouched about the camp fire at night, they told each other tales of gods and heroes, monsters and marvels, to hold back the terrors of the night. Such tales comforted and entertained, diverted and educated those who listened, and helped shape their sense of the world and their place in it.

Wanda Peterson

I don't feel like it's right because I feel like all our ancestors came over here and they had to become legal citizens. Why shouldn't every one else? I don't care who you are.

S. Truett Cathy

I'd like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order.

E. M. Forster

When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else.

Anthony Mizzi

Be remembered for who you are and what you stand for.

Roy Diliberto

We are going to be remembered forever. That's pretty cool.

Phil Garner

If you can get into the World Series and win the World Series in Houston, you can be remembered forever.

Karen Howard

I just think it's wonderful that he's being remembered like this,

Fred Funk

Sometimes I think I'm better remembered for the Skins skirt than for winning the Players.

Cassandra Clare

Being remembered, and remembered so kindly, touched him more than he would have thought possible.

Mark Victor Hansen

You and I aren't remembered for what we acquire but for what we contribute.