Gold Quotes

Although it was a great accomplishment to win a gold medal, as soon as they put it on you, that's it; your career is over.

Frank Marth also played many characters with us, and like George Petrie, he was worth his weight in gold.

I say, if you believe what you read in the comic strips, then you believe that mice run around with little gold buttons on their red pants and drive cars.

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.

I never look at it like I'm wasting money when I'm buying gold.

When not only gold but all commodities are available for the redemption of the paper currency, its volume is limited only by the value of all the wealth of the country, and it can never become insecure up to this limit.

I have a lot of bitter memories from Beijing. Hopefully, we can erase those memories and bring the gold back to Japan.

After watching my first World Series in 1977, I wanted to be Reggie Jackson. I bought a big Reggie poster. I ate Reggie candy bars. I entered a phase during which I insisted on having the same style of glasses Reggie had: gold wire frames with the double bar across.

You do not boo an Olympic Gold Medalist. I'm the best in the world. I came here for you. You don't boo me.

We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart that only gold can cure.

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.

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.

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.

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.