Top 340 Precious Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Precious Quotes from famous people such as Neri Oxman, Julian Lennon, Winston Churchill, Lee Daniels, Neha Kakkar, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I like to think of synthetic biology as liquid alchemy,

I like to think of synthetic biology as liquid alchemy, only instead of transmuting precious metals, you’re synthesizing new biological functionality inside very small channels. It’s called microfluidics.
Neri Oxman
I live in a small apartment in London, not some big house with a lot of security. I don’t like too much security. There’s no freedom. I’m a person, not some precious diamond that needs guarding every second.
Julian Lennon
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
Winston Churchill
‘Precious’ is so not P.C. What I learned from doing the film is that even though I am black, I’m prejudiced. I’m prejudiced against people who are darker than me.
Lee Daniels
I am fortunate to be successful. People’s love is precious to me. I can never take that for granted.
Neha Kakkar
But it has, in addition, an even more precious quality – a consciousness of the human intelligence, the human spirit and that man is a social creature.
Norman McLaren
We’re all born into whatever citizenship, circumstances, or class we happen to be born into. Immigrants and so many people in the working class work so hard every day for nickels and pennies and scraps to just barely get by and then realize that this precious life has been completely drained out of us.
Kali Uchis
We can’t lose precious time debating legislation that won’t work.
Wayne LaPierre
Part of the problem is that many directors treat female characters too often as precious. Or they want to live in a fantasy world where they just do spinning hook kicks and knock out guys who are six foot four, and that doesn’t work either.
David Leitch
Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.
Mary Schmich
I am certain that the Lord, who notes the fall of a sparrow, looks with compassion upon those who have been called upon to part, even temporarily, from their precious children.
Thomas S. Monson
Life is precious and there’s not a lot of room for anger.
Fran Drescher
I’m not a potato sack; I’ve never sat on my couch. If I’m home, I’m cleaning, feeding my dogs, doing stuff. Life is too precious to waste time.
Gisele Bundchen
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
Maxim Gorky
I don’t know if people feel this way, but I think by nature that when you start off as a young pop singer, they assume that you’re a bit pampered, prissy, and precious, or that you live in a bubble and not in the real world. For me that’s not the case.
Debbie Gibson
God values you simply because He created you. You are precious to Him, and your value will never change.
Victoria Osteen
I’ve been fortunate, but I’m also not very precious about making sure I’m the star of a film.
Jason Bateman
I don’t know if there’s a genetic marker for entrepreneurship. But if there is, it’s most likely not a genius for planning. It’s a propensity for action – and the ability to put failure behind you quickly. To stop being precious about your ideas.
Marc Randolph
I’m not there to tailor the role to me: I’m there to tailor me to the role. That guarantees me something, a precious thing, which is creativity. I’m guaranteed that I will have a creative experience, because I will go to it, not demand that it comes to me.
William Hurt
I’ve titled this book ‘Eighty Is Not Enough’ not just for the obvious play on words, but as a way of expressing the single idea that has governed my entire life, that every moment of life is precious, that every step we take is an adventure, that every day on earth is a gift from God.
Dick Van Patten
The essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might be viewed as a right.
Paul Farmer
I created a successful outdoor youth festival – the Liverd festival – against all good advice. It was a great way to explore and investigate social sculptures. Having that as my kind of studio, outside of a museum or precious white-cube gallery, that was a kind of education.
Natalie Jeremijenko
I am not bound to spend my precious days on Earth trying to keep up with the Joneses – because the Joneses are really just a bunch of folks in conference rooms changing ‘trends’ rapidly to create fake monthly emergencies for us.
Glennon Doyle Melton
This air we breathe is precious, and the glaciers helped me understand that and stay focused on that.
James Balog
I wanted to play at the top level in Europe, and PSG offered me a precious opportunity I couldn’t turn down.
Lucas Moura
When you’re young, working in a warehouse or selling hot dogs, you look at work – at acting – as something precious. It gets you out of the stink.
Mickey Rourke
It would have been tough for anyone to adapt ‘Push’ – an amazing but wrenching novel by Sapphire – for the screen, and I think director Lee Daniels made interesting choices, particularly with Precious’ fantasies. In my view, some of them work and some do not, but they are definitely provocative directorial choices.
Yance Ford
Having a mother with an illness and being there for her, and being there for my children I just realize how precious life is.
Camille Grammer
President Benson’s mighty influence is felt in many ways. His timely and inspired counsel to read the precious Book of Mormon brought an added appreciation of this sacred scripture to all who followed his direction.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
We trust something in a grocery store and assume it’s good. We don’t learn about the most precious thing in life-the food we put in our body. Educate yourself!
Paul Prudhomme
The great thing in life is efficiency. If you amount to anything in the world, your time is valuable, your energy precious. They are your success capital, and you cannot afford to heedlessly throw them away or trifle with them.
Orison Swett Marden
Life is precious - very, very precious.

Life is precious – very, very precious.
Ron Cephas Jones
Again, Be careful to make a good improvement of precious time.
David Brainerd
I just don’t care that much about the band name. I’m not so precious about it. The Harpoons were different people, but The Boy-Friends were and are the same people as The Visions. I changed it to The Visions when we made ‘Transangelic Exodus’ because I guess we didn’t feel so friendly and boyish anymore.
Ezra Furman
By the time I got to the point where I was ‘starring’ in movies, and I had executives telling me what lines to say, that wasn’t for me. I’m really not an actor. I’m a guy who comes out of comedy, and my impetus was always to rewrite the line to make it funnier, not to try to make somebody’s precious words work.
Rick Moranis
I play a female Indiana Jones, a professor who hunts down precious objects, like a bowl that belonged to the Buddha. They tailored the role to me: I wanted to be smart, funny, and to kick some ass.
Tia Carrere
Kids only learn that the stove is hot when they put their finger on and they burn it. This, unfortunately, is the limitation of our precious brain.
Hasso Plattner
As someone who is a dedicated fan of the NHS, I’m extremely worried, I think its a very precious thing that needs to be nurtured, looked after.
Mel Giedroyc
If you are working or a veteran or a parent, time is often the most precious commodity.
Neil Bush
I’ve been eating tons of organic foods, staying away from processed sugars, white flours, and anything artificial. It’s the same as my normal regime, but I’m being even stricter, because everything I put into my body is literally building this precious baby inside me.
Danica McKellar
I’m not suggesting that microbial cellulose is going to be a replacement for cotton, leather or other textile materials. But I do think it could be quite a smart and sustainable addition to our increasingly precious natural resources.
Suzanne Lee
We didn’t used to be so precious about women in comedy back in the old days.
Paul Feig
The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
Charles Caleb Colton
Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.
Albert Schweitzer
We don’t ever realize how precious life is while we’re living it.
Michael Arden
Our mothers give us so many gifts. They give us the precious gift of life, of course, but they also leave treasured lessons that can guide us along our journeys even when they are no longer with us.
Maria Shriver
In my experience, there are plenty of bad middle-class parents: those who put their own lives and careers before those of their children and make precious little time available for their offspring, preferring instead to hire in childcare and shower them with the latest and most expensive gadgets.
Martin Jacques
In the early 1980s, I wrote a book called ‘The Complete Guide to Financial Privacy.’ If I would write that book today, it would be a pamphlet. There is precious little privacy left.
Mark Skousen
Learn to see yourself as Heavenly Father sees you – as His precious daughter or son with divine potential.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Engineering talent is the most precious resource for any technology company – Palantir and Addepar are successful first and foremost because of their top tech cultures, and the same is true for our best portfolio companies at 8VC.
Joe Lonsdale
I never talk about my private life. When you’re in this business it becomes so precious. I don’t understand when people open up about themselves to the press.
Chris Noth
God loves you and everything about you, so why beat up on your precious self?
Nicole Ari Parker
Providing financial incentives for both local communities and national governments to conserve and restore forests also makes sense. It will put an economic value on these precious natural resources and drive the right behaviours from both government and business.
Paul Polman