Gold Quotes

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.

I've learned that winning isn't everything, and it's more about the journey. But at the end of the day, I just want to stand on the podium with the gold medal.

I've spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold.

As an actor, it's great to play a strong leader with a heart of gold.

The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of '49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific.

Gold and silver are no doubt subject to fluctuations, from the discovery of new and more abundant mines; but such discoveries are rare, and their effects, though powerful, are limited to periods of comparatively short duration.

People think the gold medal is yours and they say you're going to win - but they have no idea how hard it is. People aren't doing it negatively - they're mostly lovely and they really do want you to win - but they don't understand the difficulty and intensity of competition.

Winning Commonwealth gold was just totally unbelievable.

If I never sang on a record again I can still look at my walls. They are covered floor to ceiling with gold and platinum records from all over the world.

A gold book, fastened together in the shape of a book by wires of the same metal, had been dug up in the northern part of the state of New York, and along with the book an enormous pair of gold spectacles!

Being gay has nothing to do with the three gold medals or the three MVPs or the four championships I've won. I'm still the same person. I'm Sheryl.

I have records in gold, in platinum, I have two Oscars, I have Grammys and so on.

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

I can't immediately get all this coverage when my record comes out. The way I sell gold and platinum records is by being on the road.

Coming in as a veteran, I'd like to finish with a gold medal.

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.

Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.

Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure.

The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.

Silver and gold the Gods have denied them, whether in mercy or in wrath, I am unable to determine.

My big objective this season is to win three gold medals at the Olympics, in the road race, the time trial and the points race.

I have my gold forever and no one can ever take it away from me.

I think as a Canadian hockey player, you go through it in your mind so many times, being able to stand on that blue line and hear your national anthem play and being a gold medal champion, you dream of that. And then to be able to accomplish that and actually win a gold medal and represent your country its an amazing feeling.