Quotes About Gold

By accident, some traders had stumbled across a route controlled by Verizon that took 14.65 milliseconds. "The Gold Route," the traders called it, because on the occasions you happened to find yourself on it you were the first to exploit the discrepancies between prices in Chicago and prices in New York.

In gold—in gems," answered Pilarmo. "In chains," said Elric. "We free travelers need no chains of that sort." Moonglum bent forward out of the shadows where he sat, his expression showing that he strongly disapproved of Elric's statement.

Three swift swords for the sisters three; The first shall be of ivory; The second sword's forged of rarest gold; The third shall be cut from a granite fold. The first sword's name is Just Old Man; And the second is called The Urgent Brand; While the third thirsty sword of that glamour'd three Is the hungry blade named Liberty. --Ernest Wheldrake, Border Ballads

If you stand in a wheat field at this time of year, a few weeks from harvest, it's not hard to imagine you're looking at something out of mythology: all this golden sunlight brought down to earth, captured in kernels of gold, and rendered fit for mortals to eat. But of course this is no myth at all, just the plain miraculous fact.

I do 'sissy with a heart of gold' really well.

For the first six years of my career I was independent. I got on to a major and did my thing there. I had platinum and gold records and all that.

After I won the Olympics, like any gold medalist, I did feel some emptiness in my heart. I did think about coming back to the ice for a long time. What motivated me is skating is something I am best at and I love the most. So I want to give it one more try.

Apolo is going to have to keep skating so he can add more gold to his entourage.

I bought a dodgy gold ring off a guy in Southampton. He told me to check it was real gold by heating it up with a lighter and pressing it against my skin, because real gold doesn't burn. I still have the scar on my left hand.

Lawyers love paper. They eat, sleep and dream paper. They turn paper into gold, and their files are colorful and their language neoclassical and calli-graphically bewigged.

In Britain or Germany or America you might with great luck find a new strain of mountaintop lichen or some sprig of previously overlooked moss, but in Australia take a stroll through the bush and you can find half a dozen unnamed wildflowers, a grove of Jurassic angiosperms, and probably a ten-kilo lump of gold. I know where I'd be working if I were in science.

The heads of roses begin to droop. The bee who has been hauling her gold all day finds a hexagon in which to rest.

You had the physical sensation Of someone's quiet voice beside you. It was my old prophetic voice Sounding, untouched by decay: "Farewell, azure of Transfiguration, Farewell, the Second Savior's gold. Ease with a woman's last caress The bitterness of my fatal hour.

U ovu vodu bacaju ono što je mrtvo da bih ga ja izvadio. I to zubima. Za to sam pla?en. Daju mi ?amac, a pla?aju mi sramotom i zlatom. Daju mi da jedem. Daju mi zlata. Mnogo zlata. Ali nemam prava da ga trošim. Niko ništa ne?e da mi proda. Imam ku?u i mnogo zlata, ali moram da gutam sramotu celog sela. Pla?aju me da bi me umesto njih grizla savest.

No civilian has been allowed to see the gold in Fort Knox since 1974, nearly 40 years ago.

A ring of gold with the sun in it? Lies. Lies and a grief. --from The Couriers, written 4 November 1962

I knew chemistry would be worse, because I'd seen a big card of the ninety-odd elements hung up in the chemistry lab, and all the perfectly good words like gold and silver and cobalt and aluminum were shortened to ugly abbreviations with different decimal numbers after them.

My head a moon Of Japanese paper, my gold beaten skin Infinitely delicate and infinitely expensive.

I am your opus, I am your valuable, The pure gold baby

The water rose up from the swiftly flowing river at the bottom of the Hararscrape, and from where they crouched the setting sun, shining through this curtain of mist, tore the sky into glittering gold, red and purple.

Daja doesn't exactly need to be tested on whether she's honorable or not. Doesn't she? Don't all of you? This is your first taste of the things which may come from your being powerful mages. People will offer you gold, status, even love. I want to know how you will react. If want to know if your teachers will release greedy, thoughtless monsters into the world.

With her hair and freckles she was dark gold like the bracken on the slope behind her; she fitted. He stared past her into the water of the lake, and saw it was very clear, and deep; sunlight coming through the trees sent spears into it, gold again, another world, shining above and losing itself below in darkness.

Don't ask me what I think the best song of last year was, because my opinion is the same as most of America's. It was 'Gold Digger.'

You can't look at the intrinsic value of gold as you can a business. Gold doesn't give you cash flow, and, at the end of the day, cash flow is what is important. Gold doesn't give you dividends.