Buried Treasure Quotes

• There is, of course, a gold mine or a buried treasure on every mortgaged homestead. Whether the farmer ever digs for it or not, it is there, haunting his daydreams when the burden of debt is most unbearable.

  Fawn M. Brodie

  Gold, Debt, Treasure

  "No Man Knows My History". Book by Fawn M. Brodie, Chapter 2, 1945.

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• Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Marriage, Religious, Men

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2015). “Venus in Furs”, p.29, Cosimo Classics

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• Life is never what one dreams. It is seldom what one desires, but for the vital spirit and the eager mind, the future will always hold the search for buried treasure and the possibility of high adventure.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Dream, Adventure, Mind

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• Every new search is a voyage to the Indies, a quest for buried treasure, a journey to the end of the rainbow; and whether or not at the end there shall be turned up a pot of gold or merely a delightful volume, there are always wonders along the way.

  Vincent Starrett

  Journey, Rainbow, Gold

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• Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.

  Neil Gaiman

  Pain, Life And Love, Path

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.189, A&C Black

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• There's nothing in the world like buried treasure-and people hungry and obsessed enough to risk their lives for it. Pirate Hunters isn't just a good story-it's a true one. Searching for the souls of its explorers, it takes you to the far tip of the plank and plunges you deep to the bottom of the ocean.

  Brad Meltzer

  Ocean, People, Pirate

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• She is our moon. Our tidal pull. She is the rich deep beneath the sea, the buried treasure, the expression in the owl's eye, the perfume in the wild rose. She is what the water says when it moves.

  Patricia A. McKillip

  Moving, Eye, Moon

  Patricia A. McKillip (2015). “Solstice Wood”, p.77, Hachette UK

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• Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

  Martin Luther

  Music, Art, Greatest Treasure

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• The beginning of art is not reason. It is the buried treasure of the unconscious...that unconscious which has more understanding than our lucidity.

  Edgard Varese

  Art, Understanding, Treasure

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• Much of the world is focused on answers. This unfortunate. Situations change, the earth turns, and our needs fluctuate. Focusing on static answers puts one at a disadvantage. Empower yourself by searching for the right question as if it were a buried treasure and treasures will find you.

  John Fairclough

  Empowering, Needs, Answers

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• Every one of us has secret dreams and desires along with seeds of greatness implanted within us. You too have gifts to share with this world. There is buried treasure within you, waiting to be discovered. Your full potential has not been released yet. Your God-given divine destiny awaits you.

  Joel Osteen

  Dream, Greatness, Destiny

  Joel Osteen (2012). “It's Your Time: Finding Favour, Restoration and Abundance in Your Everyday Life”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

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• Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.

  Virginia Woolf

  Heart, Light, Treasure

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “Monday or Tuesday”, p.5, Virginia Woolf

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• If you desire wisdom like money and buried treasures, then you'll find it!

  Solomon

  Desire, Treasure, Buried

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• One who roams the channels after dark, searching for buried treasure.

  Harriet Van Horne

  Dark, Treasure, Buried

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• Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times...

  George Ellery Hale

  Science, Treasure, Adventurous

  George Ellery Hale (1931). “Signals from the Stars”

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• Criticism is properly the rod of divination: a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig for the castigation of offenders.

  Arthur Symons

  Discovery, Criticism, Treasure

  Arthur Symons (1906). “An Introduction to the Study of Browning”

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• Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times. Princes and potentates, political or industrial, equally with men of science, have felt the lure of the uncharted seas of space, and through their provision of instrumental means the sphere of exploration has made new discoveries and brought back permanent additions to our knowledge of the heavens.

  George Ellery Hale

  Adventure, Knowledge, Mean

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• Safe! safe! safe!' the pulse of the house beats wildly. Waking, I cry 'Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.

  Virginia Woolf

  Happiness, Heart, Light

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “Monday or Tuesday”, p.5, Virginia Woolf

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• Indiana Jones: Archaeology is the search for fact... not truth. If it's truth you're looking for, Dr. Tyree's philosophy class is right down the hall. ... So forget any ideas you've got about lost cities, exotic travel, and digging up the world. We do not follow maps to buried treasure, and "X" never, ever marks the spot. Seventy percent of all archaeology is done in the library. Research. Reading.

  Jeffrey Boam

  Philosophy, Reading, Philosophical

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• I found something" Simon said as he walked in. He whipped out an old-fashioned key from his pocket and grinned at me. "It was taped to the back of my dresser drawer. What do you think? Buried treasure? Secret passageway? Locked room where they keep crazy old Aunt Edna?" "It probaly unlocks another dresser," Tori said. "One they threw out fifty years ago." "Its tragic, being born without an imagination. Do they hold telethons for that?

  Kelley Armstrong

  Crazy, Aunt, Thinking

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• Sleep my little baby-oh Sleep until you waken When you wake you'll see the world If I'm not mistaken... Kiss a lover Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure... Face your life Its pain, Its pleasure, Leave no path untaken.

  Neil Gaiman

  Baby, Pain, Sleep

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• I have become interested in languages which I cannot make up, which I cannot create or even create in: I have become interested in languages which I can only come up upon (as I disappear), a pirate upon buried treasure. The dreamer, the dreaming, the dream. I call these languages, languages of the body.

  Kathy Acker

  Dream, Pirate, Treasure

  Kathy Acker (1997). “Bodies of Work: Essays”, Serpents Tail

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• One should follow a man of wisdom who rebukes one for one's faults, as one would follow a guide to some buried treasure. To one who follows such a wise man, it will be an advantage and not a disadvantage.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Buddhist, Men

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• I loved every minute of my childhood - sunbathing on the fire escape, digging for buried treasure in the back yard, pulling alewives out of the sand... Then it was all taken away from me. I came back every summer to visit my father until I was 18, but I was always the outsider.

  Jennifer Egan

  Summer, Father, Taken

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