Quotes on Gold

I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.

Author: Woody Allen

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

Author: Kurt Angle

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!

Author: Charles Anthon

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.

Author: Cecil Beaton

Outside came in '60. The Edge in '61. All three made Gold, but the biggest seller was Inside.

Author: Shelley Berman

Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

Author: Jeff Bezos

Everybody seized upon a bit of the beast. The Sultan claimed the liver, which, when dried and powdered, is worth twice its weight in gold as medicine.

Author: Isabella Bird

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

Author: Claude Bristol

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise.

Author: Gwendolyn Brooks

A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.

Author: Richard Burton

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

Author: Tim Cahill

I don't like to have to pan for gold when I read.

Author: Jonathan Carroll

I ordered gold in the meantime to be showered down without ceasing among the happy multitude.

Author: Adelbert Chamisso

To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.

Author: Roald Dahl

Most orgies that you go to, I have found, most of it is sad. All that wildness, all those laughs were like the shining silver and gold paper on packages, but there was nothing inside.

Author: Sammy Davis, Jr.

A mask of gold hides all deformities.

Author: Thomas Dekker

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

Author: Celine Dion

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.

Author: Don Dokken

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

Author: Elizabeth Elizabeth I

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

Author: R. Fuller

The greatest memory for me of the 1984 Olympics was not the individual honors, but standing on the podium with my teammates to receive our team gold medal.

Author: Mitch Gaylord

When we were on the road, I found out that my greatest hits album went Gold. They freaked out. Things really came to a head when we started arguing about a Van Halen greatest hits package.

Author: Sammy Hagar

I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal.

Author: Dorothy Hamill

As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient.

Author: W. Harriman

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

Author: Zahi Hawass

Heck, gold medals, what can you do with them?

Author: Eric Heiden

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

Author: Matthew Henry

As you know, Microsoft eventually kind of grabbed the gold ring out of Apple's hands, I guess.

Author: Andy Hertzfeld

The only way I'm going to win a Gold Glove is with a can of spray paint.

Author: Reggie Jackson

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

Author: Michael Johnson

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

Author: Samuel Johnson

Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.

Author: John Keats

Do not hold everything as gold that shines like gold.

Author: Alain Lille

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

Author: Audrey Meadows

You know, of course, the specimens are not alive. We have to fix them in a fixing liquid formaldehyde and then we have to do a rinsing and then we have to coat them in a thin layer of gold.

Author: Lennart Nilsson

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.

Author: Dan O'Brien

If you hit a midget on the head with a stick, he turns into 40 gold coins.

Author: Patton Oswalt

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.

Author: Jesse Owens

The only thing I really, really want is for the U.S. to win again. Just to win another team gold. And, of course I would really want to win an all-around gold.

Author: Carly Patterson

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

Author: Aurelius Prudentius

Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them.

Author: David Ricardo

Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods.

Author: David Ricardo

Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.

Author: Antoine Rivarol

There is never enough gold to redeem all the currency in circulation.

Author: John Robinson

Accordingly, when the supply of gold runs short, the security behind the notes is diminished, the loaning of notes is restricted or suspended, and the panic follows.

Author: John Robinson

Even when I was very depressed, I could hold on to something. It seems that I have always had that streak of gold that I could hold on to.

Author: Michael Schenker

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

You know you can get gaudy with something, and they didn't do that. To me, I think it's very tasteful, well done, with the silver and gold and the engraving. I think it's very tasteful.

Author: Earl Scruggs

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

Author: Charlie Sheen

Gold all is not that doth golden seem.

Author: Edmund Spenser

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

Author: Laurence Sterne

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

Author: Picabo Street

Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

Author: Mark Twain

O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!

Author: Virgil

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.

Author: Mort Walker

Everything I touch turns to gold.

Author: Pete Waterman

We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.

Author: Vivienne Westwood

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

Author: A. Yehoshua

There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold.

Author: Coleman Young

I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the vocals on Landing on Water.

Author: Neil Young