I own records that have the power to make me cry. Records to be by or with - truly precious possessions. It is the ambition of the Midnight Runners to make records of this value.
The mother is the most precious possessions of the nation, so precious that society advances its highest well-being when it protects the functions of the mother.
Liberty is one of the imagination's most precious possessions.
One of my favorite writers is Michel de Montaigne. My wife gave me a beautiful 17th-century edition of Montaigne's essays translated by John Florio. That's probably my most precious possession.
He who enjoys a good neighbor, said the Greeks, has a precious possession. Same goes for neighbour's wife.
Auschwitz was one of the wealthiest places in the world. Everyone who was deported there had been in such a hurry that they were only able to take along the things they loved the most. Well, of course, a musician would take along her instrument. But then they would take these precious possessions away from the prisoners once they arrived. All these things were kept in a part of the camp the prisoners called "Canada. " It was like a giant warehouse.
In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession.
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
Environment grinds us, forces us to adjust, and--consciously or not--kills our most precious possession: that something which enables us to speak with ourselves and with God.
