Gold Quotes

When hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world went to the Yukon to look for gold, the original prospectors had already claimed most of it.

Thinkers are scarce as gold; but he whose thoughts embrace all his subject, and who pursues it uninterruptedly and fearless of consequences, is a diamond of enormous size.

To have this gold medal around my neck is an indescribable feeling. I'm the happiest person right now.

Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold.

You'd rather own gold; not the miner

I have a lot of bitter memories from Beijing. Hopefully, we can erase those memories and bring the gold back to Japan.

Anything short of the discipline and honesty of a true gold coin standard will inevitably self-destruct, consuming our wealth and liberties, and nurturing the omnipotent state.

The ability to manage large assets well - it's like being Michael Jordan or winning the gold in the Olympics; it's what you aspire to.

The Olympics is not for tennis and tennis does not need the Olympics. It is not my goal in life to win a gold medal.

Media has changed dramatically, as you and I know. We're in a world now where you're rewarded for being outrageous. Punditry has replaced reporting as the gold standard of journalism.

I never saw the gold plates, only in a visionary or entranced state.

Even if it is made up of gold, the sailing boat can go nowhere without the humble wind!

The CDO was, in effect, a credit laundering service for the residents of Lower Middle Class America. For Wall Street it was a machine that turned lead into gold.

On August 28, 1933, Roosevelt signed Executive Order 6260, outlawing the constitutional right of U.S. citizens to own gold.

Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.

Governments have persistently tried their best to promote, encourage, and expand the circulation of bank and government paper, and to discourage the people's use of gold itself.

Let the efforts of us all, prove that he [Martin Luther King] was not a mere dreamer when he spoke of the beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace being more precious than diamonds or silver or gold

Britain's last gold medal was a bronze in 1952 in Helsinki

A diamond, though set in horns, is still a diamond, and sparkles in purest gold.

I have neither silver nor gold, but I bring with me the most precious thing given to me: Jesus Christ.

Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater, not a real person.

All is not gold that glitters, Pleasure seems sweet, but proves a glass of bitters

Count art by gold, and it fetters the feet it once winged.

Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured.

Taking pictures is like panning for gold. You do it again and again, and sometimes you find a nugget.

Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long.

(...) And metaphors like cats behind your smile, Each one wound up to purr, each one a pride, Each one a fine gold beast you've hid inside (...)

Aye, you white dog, you are like all your race; but to a black man gold can never pay for blood.

Each proposed B-2 stealth bomber costs three times more than it would if every part of the plane were made from solid gold. The cost is $2.3 billion each.

Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.

Most orgies that you go to, I have found, most of it is sad. All that wildness, all those laughs were like the shining silver and gold paper on packages, but there was nothing inside.

It is observed of gold, by an old epigrammatist, that to have it is to be in fear, and to want it is to be in sorrow.

For I shall learn from flower and leaf, That color every drop they hold, To change the lifeless wine of grief To living gold.

She wore white heirloom lace about her throat And in her hair a bright golden feather A pearl like a plum hung ripe from her neck But her smile fetched ten gold together

Some people think I look like a sweet potato, I consider myself a spud with a heart of gold.

You have never tasted freedom, friend, or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel.

October turned my maple's leaves to gold; The most are gone now; here and there one lingers: Soon these will slip from the twigs' weak hold, Like coins between a dying miser's fingers.

I think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word "lavish" and everything being magnificent.

There are silver ships There are gold ships, But there are no ships Like friendships.

Found a good voice and took advantage of it. Each of my specialties was like a prospector discovering a vein of gold. I worked each until the vein was exhausted.

Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.

The sweet calm sunshine of October, now Warms the low spot; upon its grassy mold The pur0ple oak-leaf falls; the birchen bough drops its bright spoil like arrow-heads of gold.

Among the rain and lights I saw the figure 5 in gold on a red firetruck moving tense unheeded to gong clangs siren howls and wheels rumbling through the dark city.

Gold were as good as twenty orators.

How quickly nature falls into revolt When gold becomes her object! For this the foolish over-careful fathers Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with care, Their bones with industry.

Tis a blushing shame-faced spirit that mutinies in a man's bosom. It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that (by chance) I found. It beggars any man that keeps it.

A thousand pieces of gold may hardly bring a moment's happiness, but a small favor can cause a lifetime's gratitude. Too much love can turn to enmity, while aloofness can produce joy.

Don't gain the world and lose your soul wisdom is better than silver or gold.

Gold and silver are constituted, by the nature of things, money, and universal money, independent of all convention, and of all laws.

With a sound like a bat hitting a watermelon, pirate fist connected with pirate jaw and a gold tooth bounced across the deck.