Top 45 Prized Quotes

A small species of pinus was much prized, and, when dwarfed in the manner of the Chinese, fetched a very high price; it is generally grafted on a variety of the stone pine.

The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film.

I was a little nervous backstage. But I had this book, Gandhi. I just read his quotes, closed my eyes and focused my thoughts. Presently, this book is my prized possession.

In Shaker Heights, Ohio, one of America’s first planned communities, order and harmony are prized.

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 when they convey the love and thoughtfulness of a good heart.

When I was a boy, I took over the shed at the bottom of the garden and displayed fossils and potsherds and coins in it and proudly called it my ‘museum‘. I charged people to come in, and my most prized possession was a Saracen shield dating from the Crusades.

People’s most prized possessions carry deeply symbolic and emotional significance.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.

I am a witness to nations and people deprived of their freedom. I was there. I watched that great Iron Curtain drop around nations which formerly had prized their freedom – good people. I was aghast as these were written off by the stroke of a pen.

Notoriety is such a prized thing. Society suddenly wants your opinion on things – everyone from your mom to an editor at The New York Times.

We’re in a post-conceptual era where it’s really the artist‘s idea and vision that are prized rather than the ability to master the crafts that support the work. Today, our understanding of an artist is closer to a philosopher than to a craftsman.

The cognitive skills prized by the American educational establishment and measured by achievement tests are only part of what is required for success in life. Character skills are equally important determinants of wages, education, health and many other significant aspects of flourishing lives.

Americans have always prized individuality – it is part of our national DNA – but America is a community that draws strength from the sum of our people and has always known that the total of that sum is worth far more than its individual parts.

My most prized possession is my pillow. I can’t travel or sleep without it. And it’s, like, this really thin down pillow that really doesn’t do anything, but it’s weird: if I don’t have it, I’m constantly thinking about not having it.

My most prized possession is my coffeemaker!

The rule seems to be that there are no absolutes, that what is rare is prized. Thus, in times of relative affluence, thin models become dominant.

The truth is that our freedoms are being subtly eroded in an era where emotion and sentiment are prized above reason and rationality.

Grapes are grown in such profusion in the Southern and Western States that I have seen damaged bunches thrown to the pigs. Americans find it difficult to understand how highly this fruit is prized in England.

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.

Where incompetence is prized, it is ever-present.

A lot of people of color in the music industry are still more interested in embracing things that are considered white canon, and looking radical. Like when people point to punk in the indie world: If you point to the history of punk as what you see as your legacy, that’s more prized and praised.

Nothing’s really a prized possession except my family, you know?

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 back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy.

Imagine Him smiling down on you right now. Embrace His love. Remember, you are His most prized possession, the apple of His eye!

My most prized possession would have to be ‘Trick It.’ I did rap here and there with some songs before, but ‘Trick It’ was my first time challenging myself to write lyrics from beginning to end.

Under these conditions it is not astonishing that learning was highly prized; in fact, my parents made sacrifices to be able to give their children a good education.

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.

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) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man‘s choice, and is highly prized.

He’s as cool as a prized marrow!

Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn’t, but it should be.

Loveliest of lovely things are they on earth that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour is prized beyond the sculptured flower.

No one would bring their horse into a studio, because they don’t want to bring their prized animals into an environment where they wouldn’t be comfortable or where they might panic and hurt themselves.

We used to exchange leotards with gymnasts from other countries. I don’t remember who I got my most prized leotard from, but it was one with a lot of stars on it.

I have a statue of Superman. It’s actually a big one… It’s a collectible statue of Superman, which the DC guys very kindly gave to me. So that’s a little prized possession of mine.

For baked goods where lightness is a prized attribute – almost all cakes, some cookies – it’s important to start with room-temperature butter.

I’m from Chicago and that’s where I created all of my most prized possesions, which are my songs.

I have ‘To Kill A Mockingbird‘ signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession.

I still have a home in Sarajevo, and there is a room where the walls are covered with football jerseys. One is a Milan shirt with Shevchenko’s name and number on the back. It is an original from one of his Serie A appearances, and he has autographed it. It has pride of place. It really is my prized possession.

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, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides.

My daughter is not an object to flash around or a prized item to put on display.

Diversity is valued, and it is prized. We learn to appreciate each other and each other’s struggles. From diversity, we draw our enormous and our lasting strength.

Disney‘s House of the Future had the clean simplicity prized in the 1950s as relief from decades of frayed patchwork, jury-rigging, and make-do clutter caused by Depression and war.