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Quotes About Coins

The urge to travel feels magnetic. Two of my favorite words are linked: departure time. And travel whets the emotions, turns upside down the memory bank, and the golden coins scatter.
~ Frances Mayes
No nation can be strong except in the strength of God, or safe except in His defense. The trust of our people in God should be declared on our national coins.
~ Salmon P. Chase
Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi stimul ac nummos contemplar in arca. (The public hiss at me, but I cheer myself when in my own house I contemplate the coins in my strong-box.)
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
It means that the silver coins of the United States at whatever ratio is fixed, and I want the present ratio that we have now, 16 to 1, maintained precisely as it is.
~ Richard Parks Bland
El mundo solo por el cielo solo. Son las colinas de martillos y el triunfo de la hierba espesa. Son los vivísimos hormigueros y las monedas en el fango. El mundo solo por el cielo solo
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
The urge to travel feels magnetic. Two of my favorite words are linked: departure time. And travel whets the emotions, turns upside down the memory bank, and the golden coins scatter.
~ Frances Mayes
I collect dice and I collect coins. I travel the world so I love dice, I always have dice on me. I collect magnets as well.
~ Kellan Lutz
A heap of shining guineas was lying there. Mrs Brandy picked up one of the coins and examined it. It was as though she held a ball of soft yellow light with a coin at the bottom of it.
~ Susanna Clarke
Oh, my lord, I know it, I do." The beggar laughed. "I own the place, technically. Now, regarding those coins for old Hoid, my good lord…
~ Brandon Sanderson
Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins.
~ Scott Cook
I grab coins and tees in my travels, but I usually mark my ball with a coin from Argentina, either a peso or a 10-centavo piece.
~ Angel Cabrera
How do you get all those coins? asked Mort. IN PAIRS.
~ Terry Pratchett
Dar Óma I was a beggar You threw me a smile I ran off delirious into the distance later, tired hungry I sat down now people toss me coins I throw them back at them all I ever wanted was Your smile
~ Gabriel Rosenstock
I can juggle, not well... I can balance a broom on my chin. I can do very simple carny tricks, a little sleight of hand with cards and coins.
~ Rich Sommer
Freedom – she understood now – was something so long lost among humans that they had forgotten what it felt like. Bend to your labours! Grasp those coins! Keep the doors locked and fires raging to empty the shadows behind you! Make your brothers and sisters kneel before you, to serve your pleasures. Are you free? You don't remember the truth of what once was – of what you all so willingly surrendered.
~ Steven Erikson
Sonicators are used for cleaning glasses, jewelry, and metal stuff like coins and watches. Even cell phone parts. Dentists, doctors, and hospitals use the gizmos to clean instruments.
~ Kathy Reichs
One of Balzac's characters might live here. It must have been built by a wealthy provincial notary who retired to the countryside. I imagine him, at night, in my room, counting out his gold coins.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
~ Francois Rabelais
we've produced a generation of spiritual panhandlers, begging for coins of wisdom, banging like bums on every closed door...if an old man moves into a shack or a cave and lets his beard grow, people will flock from miles around just to read his no trespassing sign
~ Tom Robbins
Pieter would be pleased with the rest of the coins, the debt now settled. I would not have cost him anything. A maid came free.
~ Tracy Chevalier
Lin reflected how much power mere money had. Lying in the purse it was just coins. Let loose from confinement, it was blankets against the cold, and candied chestnuts. It was an old lady clad in a new dress with hibiscus flowers on it.
~ Kerry Greenwood
October turned my maple's leaves to gold; The most are gone now; here and there one lingers; Soon these will slip from out the twig's weak hold, Like coins between a dying miser's fingers.
~ T. B. Aldrich
Septimus grinned. "It's not coins I seek. I seek the power of Hercules.
~ Jason Born, Wald Vengeance
all proportion to the small piles of coins accumulating on the table. Apparently the game flows best with four or five, and when no one else is available, they try to rope Cal in; Cal, knowing when he's outclassed, stays clear. The young guys are going
~ Tana French