Gold Quotes

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.

Billy Konchellah with his World Championship titles, Paul Ereng with his Olympic gold and Wilson Kipketer with his World records are my role models.

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.

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.

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.

Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949, he had tons and tons of gold. When Bill Gates was a college dropout, Ferdinand already possessed billions of dollars and tons of gold. It wasn't stolen.

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.

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.

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.

I was only 18 and I'd be 22 if I was competing at London. I'm stronger and more experienced and I know I would have won 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.