Gold Quotes

I want to win a gold medal in London.

The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening.

My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and excite me: Gold chains linked you to the great fairy tales and myths, to Arabia, and India; to the great weight of the world, but lighter than a feather.

Gold medals are made out of sweat, blood and tears and effort in the gym every day.

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

If you write a hit song for Britney Spears, it's worth several million dollars. Just one song! And it might have taken you two hours to do it. It's like mining for gold. It takes a lot of skill and a lot of technique.

Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

You'll never find your gold on a sandy beach.

Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current.

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

Well, I don't think everything necessarily that I touch turns to gold, but I think I get great joy out of it regardless of whether it is successful or not.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing.

My father's encouragement is what has brought me this far, because when I grew up I wanted to be like him, and I knew I had that ability to become an athlete. Being an Olympian is one of the greatest things, and being an Olympic gold medallist is one of the most prestigious titles in the world.

Yeah, that's what kind of, we get the idea a little bit yeah, because other people from different countries also try as hard as they can to get a medal or a gold medal in the Olympic Games. And you know, if they can work hard, we can work hard as well.

Hunger for gold is made greater as more gold is acquired.

Two hundred and fifty mummies covered in gold. Something like this cannot be explained - mummy after mummy covered in shining gold.

Those that go gold into the furnace will come out no worse.

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same.

Of course, when you're training your whole life to get to the Olympics, you train for gold.

After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it.

Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.

Over the years, I've made many sacrifices to win two Olympic gold medals and put together winning streaks that will never be broken.

I have to follow my thoughts and mine for the gold. I have to dig it out.

And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold.

I woke up on the plane this morning and was turning on my phone and I had to put my pin number in. That's when I realized that since the age of 10 I've been using 2012 as my pin number. But now that I've won gold in the 2012 Olympics, I've achieved that goal and, for the first time in 14 years, I'll have to change my pin.

I think it's the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don't write very well.

I am called a gold digger all the time. I don't care. There is nothing you can do about what other people say.

They don't give you gold medals for beating somebody. They give you gold medals for beating everybody.