Precious

Famous quotes containing the word precious:

“When as that Rubie, which you weare,
Sunk from the tip of your soft eare,
Will last to be a precious Stone,
When all your world of Beautie ‘s gone.”
—Robert Herrick (1591–1674)

“It is true that liberty is precious—so precious that it must be rationed.”
—Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870–1924)

“Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow—red, yellow, brown, black and white—and we’re all precious in God’s sight.”
—Jesse Jackson (b. 1941)