Famous quotes containing the word precious:
“Gaze not on a maid, that thou fall not be by those things that are precious to her.”
—Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus 9:5.
“This luxury of the precocious child,
Times precious chronic invalid,
would we, darlings, resign it if we could?
Our blight has been our sinecure:
mere talent was enough for us
glitter in fragments and rough drafts.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“why
Do our black faces search the empty sky?
Is there something we have forgotten? some precious thing
We have lost, wandering in strange lands?”
—Arna Bontemps (19021973)
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