Quotes About Gold

Los soldados contaban que en los vericuetos de la cordillera existía la afamada Ciudad de los Césares, entera de oro y piedras preciosas, defendida por bellas amazonas, es decir, el mismo mito de El Dorado, pero Pedro de Valdivia, hombre práctico, no perdió tiempo ni gente buscándola.

Remember, gold and silver always have had value and never have gone to zero. Can you say the same for stocks and bonds?

I feel like a zombie movie is kind of like the gold to hear movie.

Fire tries gold, misfortune men.

On Friday, October 28, 2016, the FBI disclosed that they were reopening Clinton's email probe, and the same day, gold hit $1280/oz. Conversely, oil dropped by $1.33 to $45.34 per barrel, while stock prices also took a tumble.

'The Judy Show' would be the name of my TV show if I had one, but I don't.

Shaped like Texas, but twice as big, Mali is one of the poorest countries in the world. It exports almost nothing - mostly just cotton, gold and livestock - and doesn't have enough money to import much of anything, either.

Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.

Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.

Well, I knew that goat would be a little gold mine," I say. Yes, of course I was referring to that, not the lasting joy you gave your sister you love so much you took her place in the reaping," says Peeta drily.

The country has to identify and promote raw talent. I have full faith that India will win Olympic gold in athletics sooner than later.

Gold, we think, is something polished and perfect, sophisticated, a luxury. But in its natural state, it's a raw element.

I'm just sorry I couldn't come home with a second Olympic gold medal.

I hate gold. I'm sort of a sterling-silver guy.

If I win gold, I will dedicate it to Nelson Mandela. He is a hero in South Africa, and everything I do, I do for him.

More gold had been mined from the mind of men than the earth itself.

Some maladies are rich and precious, and only to be acquired by the right of inheritance or purchased with gold.

Over the next hundred years, more gold would be extracted from a single mine in the Black Hills (an estimated $1 billion) than from any other mine in the continental United States.

Passion sits on the skull Of Humanity, And this infidel enthroned Laughs shamelessly, And gaily blows round bubbles That will fly, As if to join with worlds Deep in the sky. Rising on high, the frail Luminous globe, Shatters and bursts its slim soul Like a dream of gold. I hear at each bubble, the skull Moan and contend: 'This vicious, ridiculous game, When will it end? What you are blowing away Again and again, You murderous fiend, is my body My blood and my brain!

Minutes, blithesome mortal, are bits of ore That you must not release without extracting the gold!  Remember, Time is a greedy player Who wins without cheating, every round! It's the law. The daylight wanes; the night deepens; remember! The abyss thirsts always; the water-clock runs low.  Soon will sound the hour when divine Chance, When august Virtue, your still virgin wife, When even Repentance (the very last of inns!), When all will say: Die, old coward! it is too late!

Babel of stairways and arcades, it was an endless palace, full of reservoirs and cascades falling into a dull and darkened gold; and heavy cataracts, like crystal curtains, hung, in shimmering light, on metal walls.

Steel to the Yanomamo was like gold for the Spanish," Ferguson said. "It could push fairly ordinary people to do things that they wouldn't consider doing otherwise.

Liking the courtly magnificence of Chan Chan, they hauled away what they could and, more important, forced the city's gold, silver, and gem workers to accompany them to Qosqo. They were instructed to transform the city into a new Chan Chan, only more impressive. Seven decades later, when Pizarro held his victory celebration in Qosqo, it was equal in grandeur to any city in Europe.

He picked out a little twenty-dollar gold piece