Gold Quotes
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Fossil fuels and mining is a short-term gambit. If we develop those resources at the expense of the environmental gold mine that is the Great Barrier Reef, we will all lose in the long run.
Philippe Cousteau, Jr. -
If the fire of hell is not literal, it is worse than actual fire, and if the gates of the Celestial City are not actual gold, they are far finer.
Vance Havner
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The real jewel of my disease-ridden woodlot is the prothonotary warbler. … The flash of his gold-and-blue plumage amid the dank decay of the June woods is in itself proof that dead trees are transmuted into living animals, and vice versa.
Aldo Leopold -
It's amazing to get one Olympic gold, but you have to be a legend to get two. And that's definitely my aim.
Jade Jones -
I love to shop. Clothes, electronics, and I love jewelry, especially yellow gold.
Apolo Ohno -
And off in the far distance, the gold on the wings of the angel atop the bell tower of San Marco flashed in the sun, bathing the entire city in its glistening benediction.
Donna Leon -
You have to learn to see the gold in dirt, which means that you try to spot people with potential as well as ideas that have potential.
Max McKeown -
I have my gold forever and no one can ever take it away from me.
Picabo Street
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I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus.
Albert Einstein -
If our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold.
B. W. Powe -
If you hit a midget on the head with a stick, he turns into 40 gold coins.
Patton Oswalt -
The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.
William H. Gass -
I always thought of Caesars as the gold standard. I had exactly one date in high school, and my father knew someone who got us comped here for the Sammy Davis Jr. show. We heard 'Candy Man,' 'Mr. Bojangles' - the whole list. And then my date and I went off to the dance - homecoming, I think - where she pretty much ignored me.
Charles Bock -
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.
Caster Semenya
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These are the lords That have bought titles: men may merchandise Wares, ay and traffic in all commodities From sea to sea, and from shore to shore: But in my thought, of all things that are sold, 'Tis pity honor should be bought for gold: It cuts off all desert.
Eliza Haywood -
I'll plant and water, sow and weed, Till not an inch of earth shows brown, And take a vow of each small seed To grow to greenness and renown: And then some day you'll pass my way, See gold and crimson, bell and star, And catch my garden's soul, and say: "How sweet these cottage gardens are!"
E. Nesbit -
The royal kingcup bold Dares not don his coat of gold.
Edwin Arnold -
The rites were just the husks left over from deeper things, no pith remaining and no mystery, nothing to lift up the soul or go to the brain like wine. And, as generally happens, the more truth the ritual lost the more they bolstered it with significance. There is a saying among the Moi: The chief is clad in gold and purple, only the god dares to go naked.
Tanith Lee -
Gold? Yellow, glittering, precious gold?... This yellow slave Will knit and break religions, bless th' accursed, Make the hoar leprosy adored, place thieves, And give them title, knee and approbation With senators on the bench.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
I'm chasing that gold medal.
Oksana Masters
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I was one of those young girls that had no fear. I had goals. I knew that everything I touched would turn to gold.
Caster Semenya -
Her hair is Harlow gold Her lips a sweet surpriseHer hands are never cold She's got Bette Davis eyes
Jackie DeShannon -
Teofilo Stevenson won his first Olympic gold medal in 1972 and his last world amateur championship in 1986. He won 302 fights and once went an unbelievable 11 years without a loss. Had Cuba not boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics, many think Stevenson would have won an unmatched four gold medals in boxing.
Brin-Jonathan Butler -
You don't just go and pick up a gold medal anymore.
Anne Donovan