Valuable Possessions Quotes

I either write the book or sell the jewels. And I'm kinda sentimental about the jewels.

There are three things to leave behind; your photographs, your library, and your personal journals. These things are certainly going to be more valuable to future generations than your furniture!

Those things please more, which are more expensive.

I don't like to sell my finest pieces.

How about "diamonds are a girl's best friends"? Nope. It should be switched around and pointed out, instead, that your best friends are diamonds.

Murphy hung up and I said, to the still-open line, "Hey, if you've got someone watching my place, could you call the cops if anyone tries to steal my Star Wars poster? It's an original." Then I vindictively hung up on the FBI. It made my inner child happy.

But square-cut or pear-shaped, These rocks don't lose their shape. Diamonds are a girl's best friend.

There was just no way I could leave this little Martin guitar in my apartment overnight or even in the afternoon, and expect to find it there when I got back.

Many priceless things can be bought.

My computer's the first thing I'd save if my house was burning down.

I want to create the kinds of things that if the house burns down you want to run and save.

Gold was a gift to Jesus. If it's good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me!

Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.

It is always our treasure that the lightning strikes.

A surgeon wouldn't sell his tools. A lawyer doesn't sell his law books. I'm not going to sell my horse. I'm a sportsman.

Few people, very few, have a treasure, and if you do you must hang onto it. You must not let yourself be waylaid, and have it taken from you.

I have lots of things that aren't so old that I value, such as a copy of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl," which he signed for me.

To lose a passport was the least of one’s worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe.

I gave up what I can't keep for something I can never lose.

This sense of the safe-deposit box as a totem of responsible security inspired me to rent a box myself shortly after the birth of our first child….

The ultimate in futility is owning important jewelry. Insurers often insist on the wearing of paste replicas because necks with real rocks around 'em risk wringing.

If you find something precious you have to hold onto it with all your might and never let it go inspite of whatever else you may lose, after all many people die without ever finding that's really precious to them.