Treasured Items Quotes

I started thinking about this truck and why do I still have this same truck? After all of these years, why am I holding on to that? I just starting thinking about other things: guitars, boots and jeans. I just had a tendency to hold on to the things that have meaning to me.

I'm not a hoarder, I'm a collector: if you have something you like, every time you see it, you have a little happy hit.

Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who know where their high school yearbook is and those who do not.

I don't collect any memorabilia. I wish I'd have kept everything I had. But who knew you had to keep it. Just gave it away. And we lost so much and we didn't look after a lot of it.

The most important thing you leave behind is the stuff that turns into treasures when children find it

Ah, Meese has brought us her finest goblets! A moment, whilst Kruppe sweeps out cobwebs, insect husks and other assorted proofs of said goblets' treasured value.

Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks.

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

Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.

I fall in love with something and wear it every day until it's destroyed. My most treasured items have a very short shelf life because I love them too much.

People's most prized possessions carry deeply symbolic and emotional significance.

To pick up a cigarette wrapper or wine label or an old letter or the end of a carton is my way of dealing with those things that do not originate in me, in my I.