Gold Quotes

• All flesh is one: what matter scores; Or color of the suit Or if the helmet glints with blue or gold? All is one bold achievement, All is fine spring-found-again-in-autumn day When juices run in antelopes along our blood, And green our flag, forever green...

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Running
  • Forever
  • Spring

• When I decided to go for four gold medals I planned it out over a few years. It was in four different events and there was a lot to it.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Different
  • Planned
  • Medals

• Bill Clinton was for NAFTA. I heard him over in Tokyo he came out all said it was a great bill. Secretary Clinton was for it. She called it the gold standard when she was secretary of state.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Great
  • She
  • Clinton

• I believe in all of these Irish myths, like leprechauns. Not the pot of gold, not the Lucky Charms leprechauns. But maybe was there something in the traditional sense? I believe that this stuff came from somewhere other than people's imaginations.

  

  Megan Fox
  • People
  • Believe
  • Irish

• In my very first interview, at nine years old, I said I wanted to be an Olympic gold medalist. That was the first time I said it out loud in front of somebody other than my parents.

  

  Dominique Moceanu
  • Time
  • Parents
  • Gold

• 'Witches of East End' is certainly wild, and so are a lot of other shows these days. But 'Twin Peaks' still holds the gold medal for strange. I think we'll hang onto that for all of TV eternity!

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Think
  • End
  • Twin

• The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself.

  

  Marjorie Holmes
  • Friends
  • Gold

• I always see colors when I listen to music. It's difficult to explain, but when I hear the music, I think about gold, blood rushing... I like to keep it really warm and glittery.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Music
  • Gold

• And yet he had a thomb of gold parde.

  

  Geoffrey Chaucer
  • Gold

• I'm trying to focus on the 100 and 200 breaststroke now. There's no point concentrating on the 50 when it's not in the Olympics. I'm not going to quit the 50 but it's not my priority any more. I'll do it but as part of my bid for gold at the other distances.

  

  Cameron van der Burgh
  • Trying
  • Focus
  • Priority

• Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Value
  • Gold
  • Diamonds

• A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Like
  • Gold
  • Virtue

• I'm just collecting gold presents, which is more fun, actually, than buying gold.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Fun
  • Gold
  • Collecting

• In 1925, when Britain went back to the gold standard, that was supported by the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, the Bank of England, the civil service, the CBI, the TUC, the Times, the Economist; that consensus was very strong.

  

  Ed Balls
  • Strong
  • Party
  • Service

• You'd rather own gold; never own the miner.

  

  Kevin O'Leary
  • Gold

• I came across 'The Song of Achilles' by Madeline Miller in one of the most romantic ways one can find a story. I was digging through a pile of used books at my local library when my hand gravitated toward its brilliant teal and glistening gold cover.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Song
  • Hand
  • Romantic

• Gold, or at least the prospect of it, saved him, then killed him.

  

  H. W. Brands
  • Gold

• I need to practice every day to be at my best for winning the third gold at the Rio Olympics.

  

  Lin Dan
  • Practice
  • Winning
  • Gold

• My stepdad is Bruce Jenner, the Olympian. The first time he came over was like a blind date, and we had show and tell. He took out the gold medal for me and my sisters, and we were like, 'So? Who the hell are you?'

  

  Kourtney Kardashian
  • Time
  • Gold

• Yeah, that's what kind of, we get the idea a little bit yeah, because other people from different countries also try as hard as they can to get a medal or a gold medal in the Olympic Games. And you know, if they can work hard, we can work hard as well.

  

  Inge de Bruijn
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• It's a huge step up from the European Indoors to then being a gold medallist at the World Championships.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Up
  • World
  • Step

• The only thing I really, really want is for the U.S. to win again. Just to win another team gold. And, of course I would really want to win an all-around gold.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Team
  • Win
  • Gold

• He is not necessarily the best teacher who performs the most labour; makes his pupils work the hardest, and bustle the most. A hundred cents of copper, though they make more clatter and fill more space, have only a tenth of the value of one gold eagle.

  

  Emma Willard
  • Work
  • Space
  • Value

• Now kiss, and think that there are really those, My own high-bosom'd beauty, who increase Vain gold, vain lore, and yet might choose our way! Through many years they toil; then on a day They die not, - for their life was death, - but cease; And round their narrow lips the mould falls close.

  

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti
  • Life
  • High
  • Death

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