Gold Quotes

It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.

Broadway - the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.

All that glitters is sold as gold.

Is it thy will that I should wax and wane, Barter my cloth of gold for hodden grey, And at thy pleasure weave that web of pain Whose brightest threads are each a wasted day?

Underneath that rude exterior, you've got a heart of gold.

A book store is a treasure chest. Every time you walk in one, you strike gold.

Because gold is honest money it is disliked by dishonest men.

Let it be forgotten, as a flower is forgotten, Forgotten as a fire that once was singing gold, Let it be forgotten forever and ever, Time is a kind friend, he will make us old.

I catch a flash of red-gold beneath the surface of the water, and realize that there are koi in the pond, massive, serene, and I wonder: are they dreams of fish, or fish who dream?

I never made promises lightly There may have been some that I've broken But I swear in the days still left We will walk in fields of gold

A ring of gold with the sun in it? Lies. Lies and a grief.

Do we always grind through the present, doomed to throw a gold haze of fond retrospect over the past?

What has patriotism come to be but greed and false pride, when the only way it can show itself is by shedding blood to gain gold? More economic advantage, more territory, more power.

Everything is valuable under the right conditions. To a man dying of thirst, water be more precious than gold. To a drowning man, water be of little worth and great trouble.

Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold.

The accursed hunger for gold.

O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!

Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused.

Hollywood is the gold cap on a tooth that should have been pulled out years ago.

I put my pants on just like the rest of you - one leg at a time. Except, once my pants are on, I make gold records.

Some of the gold possessed by the Romans is doubtless mixed with what we now possess; and some small part of it will be handed down as long as the human race exists.

The poems are all wrong. It's a bang, a really big bang. Not a whimper. And sometimes gold can stay.

Actually, I always dreamed about getting a gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle in Olympic swimming. I always thought that would be the epic award in sports to get.

The importation of gold and silver is not the principal, much less the sole benefit which a nation derives from its foreign trade.

And frankly, I'm a huge gold digger and The Miz is about to make a lot of money!

I don't fully understand movements in the gold price.

The reason we need to have a gold and silver based currency is to bring discipline to the financial system so the government can't go out and do all sorts of bad things.

Gold and silver grow, and so does every other kind of metal, the same as the hair upon my head, or the wheat in the field; they do not grow as fast, but they are all the time composing or decomposing

Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world.

There's a kiss at the end of the rainbow more precious than a pot of gold.

In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver.

For the criminal who is weak and poor the narrow cell of death awaits; but honor and glory await the rich who conceal their crimes behind their gold and silver and inherited glory.

You know, my mother never thought I would do anything good in my life, and I was standing in this opera with four gold medals! If she were alive, maybe she'd think I was doing well!

Gold and Silver have always had value, never gone to zero. Can you say the same for stocks and bonds?

There are so many currency exchange rate problems that people are buying gold as a safe haven. Right now, gold looks like a safe haven if international exchange rates break down.

There's such a deep, conservative feeling in 'The way Back.' You go, 'gosh, we've gotten narrow.' So at the moment I think there's a kind of tension, and it's gold rush fever.

The United States deserves nothing but love and adoration and gold medals left and right and peace prizes left and right, things we never get.

There was still gold and silver in the mountains, And hunger was a more immediate sorrow

At the end of the day, Fool's Gold is a label that, when I hear something I like, I try to grab it for the label. There's a ton of great music coming out.

This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms the diseased slums of a broken heart into a palace made of psalms and gold.

To compete at the Olympic Games, I dreamed of any medal, but frankly speaking, I wanted a gold one.

He has a heart of gold - only harder.

De La Soul, from the soul, black medallions, no gold.

A road need not be paved in gold to find treasures at its end.

I had the whole sky in my eyes and it was blue and gold.

I'm six-foot-five. I'm not going to win the gold medal in figure skating. But I can try, and that's what matters. Trying.

Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms supply recording gold?

It is from the midst of this putrid sewer that the greatest river of human industry springs up and carries fertility to the whole world. From this foul drain pure gold flows forth.

So dear a life your arms enfold, Whose crying is a cry for gold.

There lived a singer in France of old By the tideless dolorous midland sea. In a land of sand and rain and gold There shone one woman, and none but she.