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Quotes About Gold

Autumn came, and the leaves in the forest turned to orange and gold. Then, as winter approached, the wind caught them as they fell
~ Hans Christian Andersen
London 2012 was the toughest time in our relationship but also the best. Things could get fractious - we were both competing for gold - but standing next to my brother on the start line for a home Olympics was so special. I remember saying: 'Let's go.'
~ Alistair Brownlee
We surprised ourselves in '84 when we thought we could win a major tournament but hadn't yet until we won the gold medal.
~ Karch Kiraly
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.
~ W. Averell Harriman
This plucky NASA telescope is able to find planets en masse. If you compare planet hunting to prospecting for gold, then Kepler is equivalent to trading in your trusty pan for a diesel-powered sluice box.
~ Seth Shostak
Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
And who shall say--whatever disenchantment follows--that we ever forget magic; or that we can ever betray, on this leaden earth, the apple-tree, the singing, and the gold?
~ Thomas Wolfe
Let go into the mystery Let yourself go You've got to open up your heart That's all I know Trust what I say and do what you're told Baby, and all your dirt will turn Into gold.
~ Van Morrison
Never trust money more than gold.
~ Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
On the moon we wore feathers in our hair, and rubies on our hands. On the moon we had gold spoons.
~ Shirley Jackson
Ã…Å¡mier?, ów proces alchemii na wspak, w którym zÅ'oto ?ycia ulega rozbiciu na cuchnÄ…ce skÅ'adniki wyjÅ›ciowe.
~ Simon Beckett
La muerte había provocado sus habituales y siniestros cambios, una alquimia inversa que transformó el oro de la vida en materia abyecta y pestilente.
~ Simon Beckett
Relax,' said Gold. 'I know when to tip the butler, and which sleeve to blow my nose on.
~ Simon R. Green
Museums are obliged to denature and make dreary the impulse which led to an object's original creation. Serried rows of coins are like Panini football stickers in a more ponderous form. But as objects to be handled they tell an extraordinary story, from the most over-the-top gold monster to a clipped, almost featureless little square of rough metal used as emergency currency in the Siege of Vienna.
~ Simon Winder
They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.
~ Sir Thomas More
But leave me to my beer! Gold is dross, love is loss, so if I gulp my sorrows down, or see them drown in foamy draughts of old nut-brown, then I do wear the crown, without the cross!
~ George Arnold
Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.
~ William Shakespeare
I go to Prague every year if I can, value my relationships there like gold, and feel myself in a sense Czech, with all their hopes and needs. They are a people I not only love, but admire.
~ Ellis Peters
Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured.
~ Ovid
Gold schenkt die Eitelkeit, der rauhe Stolz, Die Freundschaft und die Liebe schenken Blumen. Gold is the gift of vanityand pride, Friendship and love offer flowers.
~ Franz Grillparzer
Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.
~ Franz Grillparzer
It is in the blood of genius to love play for its own sake, and whether one uses one's skill on thrones or women, swords or pens, gold or fame, the game's the thing.
~ Gelett Burgess
If God awarded us medals, as they do in the Olympics, love would win the gold, joy the silver, and peace the bronze.
~ Charles R. Swindoll
May I ask what you have in your black leather bag with gold buckles? Everything. They were climbing a narrow staircase. Rhoda stopped to look when Jennie opened her bag. You do have everything. I have even more, Jennie said modestly. Two windows that I left at home.
~ Maurice Sendak