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Quotes About Gold

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.
~ Cecil Beaton
My latest decorating obsession is dipping - like painting the bottom of things. I've done it to almost every terra-cotta pot in my house. Every African vase I have is painted gold on the bottom. It's so fun and easy, and it instantly livens up a piece. You feel like you've really accomplished something.
~ Tamara Taylor
The Philippines has vast minerals that are still untapped. It has one of the world's largest deposits of gold, nickel, copper and chromite. Through responsible mining, we intend to generate more revenues from the extraction of these resources.
~ Benigno Aquino III
Alternatives to gold and currency and to make a big speculative vehicle - I never considered for one second having anything to do with it. I detested it the minute it had been raised.
~ Charlie Munger
Investment in Shriram will actually enable us to enter some of the retail segments such as vehicle financing, consumer and gold loans, and other products such as insurance, mutual funds, among others, where we wanted to have a footprint.
~ Ajay Piramal
I'm driven by history and our past. That's why I work in gold. It's in your veins. We've been lusting after gold since the beginning of time. God, glory, and gold.
~ Waris Ahluwalia
In truth, the best Bitcoin can hope for is to be a second-rate version of gold, if that.
~ Andrew Ross Sorkin
They were brightly colored, their gold rims vivid. From a distance, they looked like flowers, pinks and creams, reds and golds, unfolding in the sun.
~ Jennifer Weiner
I am humbled by the nomination. I got to work with a cast and writers made up of geniuses. The good news is I can finally realize my life long dream and buy my wife a solid gold speed boat.
~ Will Arnett
Practically and commercially speaking, a dollar is not necessarily a specific thing, made of silver, or gold, or any other single metal, or substance. It is only such a quantum of market value as exists in a given piece of silver or gold.
~ Lysander Spooner
In any culture, if information is to maximise in a contextual space, and new meanings be born, the original story has to have substance - there's gotta be gold in them thar hills.
~ Giles Foden
Medieval alchemists, despite their lust for gold, considered mercury the most potent and poetic substance in the universe. As a child, I would have agreed with them.
~ Sam Kean
Yea, O my lord,"the monarch said, And took the vase upon his head, The gift of Gods, of fine gold wrought, With store of heavenly liquor fraught. He honoured, filled with transport new, That wondrous being, fair to
~ V?lm?ki
Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: But with poverty everything becomes frightful.
~ Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Gold lends a touch of beauty even to the ugly.
~ Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
I believe in the Golden Rule - The Man with the Gold... Rules.
~ Mr. T
If I have cash and I can't figure a way to put it into real estate or my business, I hold it in gold and silver.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
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.
~ Mort Walker
Banana is also a Methodist minister who became a liberation theologian and once reworked the Lord's Prayer to include the lines: Teach us to demand our share of the gold/And forgive us our docility.
~ Unknown
Teach us to demand our share of the gold, And forgive us our docility.
~ Unknown
But I feel a unity between the force which changed me and the red and gold energy which I saw. From within me, as part of me, it looked out and saw itself.
~ Philip K. Dick
She nearly put the spyglass to her eye, but held back, and returned it to her pocket. There was no need for the glass; she knew what she would see; they would seem to be made of living gold. They would seem the true image of what human beings always could be, once they had come into their inheritance. The Dust pouring down from the stars had found a living home again, and these children-no-longer-children, saturated with love, were the cause of it all.
~ Philip Pullman
The terms of this combat are these. If Iofur Raknison kills me, then he will be king forever, safe from challenge or dispute. If I kill Iofur Raknison, I shall be your king. My first order to you all will be to tear down that palace, that perfumed house of mockery and tinsel, and hurl the gold and marble into the sea. Iron is bear-metal. Gold is not. Iofur Raknison has polluted Svalbard. I have come to cleanse it. Iofur Raknison, I challenge you.
~ Philip Pullman
The yellow bedspread he sleeps upon is slowly changing to the gentle quiet gold of his breath
~ Unknown