Gold Quotes

The sky outside the window was changing rapidly from deep, velvety blue to cold, steely gray and then, slowly, to pink shot with gold.

Dawn was breaking over the horizon, shell pink and faintly gold.

Most human beings live like a bird in a cage whose door was blown away. Out of habit, too busy gold-plating the cage, they do not soar to the ultimate possibility.

To us, there was Bob Dylan, and there was dad. As for what he meant to other people, that was never glorified in our house. There were no accolades there, no gold records.

America today has insufficient savings to finance both crucial investment and its consumption of imports.

The authorities in the United States confiscated private gold holdings in the Depression of the 1930's. They may seek to do so again in the Depression of the 1990's.

We don't need gold plated highways. We don't need zoning commissions which penalize offices at home and promote car commutes.

Suddenly, the world is realizing that gold is still a safe haven asset. We've seen pretty substantial losses in equity markets. I think this is genuine safe-haven buying.

What a man pays for bread and butter is worth its market value, and no more. What he pays for love's sake is gold indeed, which has a lure for angels' eyes, and rings well upon God's touchstone.

He gives only the worthless gold who gives from a sense of duty.

At the devil's booth are all things sold. Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold.

There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on.

Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting.

I gathered up my sorrows and I sold them all for gold. And I gathered up the gold, and I threw it all away.

Usain Bolt won the gold for the men's 100- and 200-meter dashes for the second Olympics in a row. You know, he has been running since he was in elementary school - kind of like Mitt Romney.

If we did go into a recession, something that's always possible for the U.S. or Europe, we could lower interest rates and expand the money supply without worrying about the price of gold.

I'm living a dream. I hope in 10 years people will know me as a gold medalist.

I hate gold. It does not pay a dividend, it has no value, and you can't work out what it should or shouldn't be worth," he said. "It is the last refuge of the desperate.

He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.

It was a palace, made entirely of gold, sitting on an island of silver snow at the very top of the world. East of the sun, and west of the moon.

I've been enjoying playing with fashion - gold grills and diamond grills have just become a part of that.

He handed her the other half of his candy bar. She stared at it like it was a brick of gold. "I'm on a diet." But she took it. "A see-food diet, apparently. I see food and I eat it.

Obviously I struck gold with Deadwood. No pun intended.

Gold is no longer an investment. Gold is no longer a portfolio item. Gold is certainly not a trading vehicle. Gold is your lifeline and I mean that literally.

Every once in a while, magicians strike gold. David Regal has created and produced the perfect close-up illusion.

It is a wealthy person, indeed, who calculates riches not in gold but in friends.

The gold-barr'd butterflies to and from And over the waterside wander'd and wove As heedless and idle as clouds that rove And drift by the peaks of perpetual snow.

They came from all over the world to work out at Gold's Gym.

Who values gold above all, considers all else as trifling.

Thinkers are as scarce as gold.

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

If we are given gold, would we not test it to determine it's value? If we doubted its genuineness - we would test it by fire...and so God with us.

Throw not my words away, as many do;They're gold in value, though they're cheap to you.

As soon as there's pain, you know the gold is just beneath.

Find a pile of gold and sit on it.

So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay. -- Robert Frost

Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold.

Gold is a relic from a time when government's were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.

The friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.

Life, sometimes so wearying is worth its weight in gold the experience of traveling lends a wisdom that is old.

A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars,--as stars to thee appear Seen in the galaxy, that milky way Which nightly as a circling zone thou seest Powder'd with stars.

The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California

No, let the monarch's bags and others hold The flattering, mighty, nay, al-mighty gold.

I feel like at the Olympics I gave the best performance of my life and I wasn't rewarded for that as an athlete. Yes, my fans and my mom were happy about it, but I didn't win that gold medal.

Dust on gold doesn't change the nature of gold.

The streets weren't paved with gold and Rose petals [when I was young]. "Do I have a horn to sell this month to pay my rent, or what am I going to do?" It was what it was.

Fiction, I believed, was the transmutation of experiential dross into linguistic gold. Fiction meant taking up whatever the world had abandoned by the road and making something beautiful out of it.

Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant.

A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.

We have a heard of gold, and that's what this medal is right here. It's a team that will never give up.