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Quotes About Silver

It was a true honor to have represented my country at my first Paralympic Winter Games and proud to bring home gold and silver medals for the U.S.
~ Mike Schultz
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Gold and silver are no doubt subject to fluctuations, from the discovery of new and more abundant mines; but such discoveries are rare, and their effects, though powerful, are limited to periods of comparatively short duration.
~ David Ricardo
a thin woman about fifty with a face like a silver hatchet.
~ Ross MacDonald
Por el aire se dilata alegre campanilleo... Son las campanas de plata del trineo...
~ Ruben Dario
While you can fill every heart as your own full of laughter loud as gold and passion quick as silver.
~ Ryan Adams
The result of the British war is a source of anxiety. For it is ascertained that the approaches to the island are protected by astonishing masses of cliff. Moreover, it is now known that there isn't a pennyweight of silver in that island, nor any hope of booty except from slaves, among whom I don't[Pg 283] suppose you can expect any instructed in literature or music.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
There's a time for casting silver; a time for casting cannon. If that isn't in the red, it should be!
~ Paul Revere
Sail on silver girl Sail on by Your time has come to shine All your dreams are on their way See how they shine Oh, if you need a friend I'm sailing right behind.
~ Paul Simon
the men were found to have left behind their guns but to have lugged such essentials as monogrammed silver cutlery, a backgammon board, a cigar case, a clothes brush, a tin of buttons polish, and a copy of 'The Vicar of Wakefield.' These men may have been incompetent bunglers, but, by God, they were gentlemen.
~ Anne Fadiman
choosing a gown of a dark blue-gray so soft that in the shadow it looked almost indigo. The line of the neck and the sweep of the skirt were both very flattering, and cut in the fashion of the moment. Deliberately she wore no jewelry, except very small diamond drop earrings. Her shining silver hair was ornament enough.
~ Anne Perry
Peter and I danced in bare feet in the cold wet undergrowth while the moon poured its wild old silver down on us and the water ran black and ancient and the moss shone.
~ Anne Rivers Siddons
On a night of icy silver radiance, when the very sea and stars seemed on fire with light.
~ Anne Rivers Siddons
even if he'd had the resources to indulge himself, no Welshman could have respected a commander who went to war with feather mattresses and silver plate.
~ Sharon Kay Penman
Nate Silver is now forecasting Oscar winners. The only area of life in which he has no expertise, ironically, is life itself.
~ Norman Chad
So the days pass, and I ask myself whether one is not hypnotized, as a child by a silver globe, by life, and whether this is living.
~ Virginia Woolf
We look at a couple of lads as they walk into the pub, Jim Barnes from Slough and someone I don't recognise. A tall bloke with a silver earring who looks knackered with a bruised right eye and cuts along his knuckles. Must've had a good Friday night.
~ John King
A Law cannot give to Bills that intrinsick Value, which the universal Consent of Mankind has annexed to Silver and Gold
~ John Locke
What's the symbolic association between a beast killed by a silver bullet and the moon?
~ Elizabeth Bear
Murchaud's silver rapier gleamed when the torchlight touched it, made itself a brand of darkness in between.
~ Elizabeth Bear
I stamp out the flames, the mtal sprays from beneath my boot, falling, freezing in the shape of a splash, red cooled to silver, still too hot for human touch.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Her light gold complexion was dusted in cobwebs of silver.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Gold for collars and bindings. Silver for protection. Werewolves and wampyrs and such. And protection from iron, of course.
~ Elizabeth Bear
She shook out her skirts in the hall, and retrieved her silver-tipped ebony wand.
~ Elizabeth Bear