Gold Quotes · Page 41

Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

— Jesse Owens

I grew up with a beautiful gold harp sitting in our living room. My older sister played it.

— Diane Paulus

“Tragedy is like a strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.”

— Anonymous

I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.

— J Mascis

A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.

— Don Marquis

“Ezekiel looked into amber and saw God, but the Teutonic Knights saw something less noble: gold.”

— Victoria Finlay

There's a kiss at the end of the rainbow more precious than a pot of gold.

— Gary Gulman

Through the lights cameras and action, glamour glitters and gold I unfold the scroll, plant seeds to stampede the globe...

— Nas

And just as a little thread of gold, running through a fabric, brightens the whole garment, so women's work at home, while…

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

Of course I want to bring home a gold medal, and that's what I'm planning on doing. For me, that's not pressure.…

— Diana Lopez

I would not, if I could, give up the memory of the joy I have had in books for any advantage that…

— Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

Dior has held an iconic place in my imagination. I am so honored to be joining a house that is the gold…

— Monica Barbaro

Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs. Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold, outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down…

— Waylon Jennings

The more you are afflicted, the more you ought to rejoice, because in the fire of tribulation the soul will become pure…

— Pio of Pietrelcina

In 'Heart of Gold' at one point, there were 23 players on the stage with him. And part of what's magic about…

— Jonathan Demme

Bodybuilders party a lot, and once, in Gold's--the gym in Venice, California, where all the top guys train there was a black…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

There are two kinds of people in this world, my grandmother used to say: the Have's and the Have-not's, and she stuck…

— Miguel de Cervantes

“Gold is the root-essence of lead. It is considered an implicit component of all metals in greater or lesser degree, based on…

— James Wasserman

Right now, I see a lot of alarming trends inside Russia, especially in Siberia, which I represent in the parliament. People start…

— Ilya Ponomarev

We do injury to a child if we bring it up in a narrow Christianity, which prevents it from ever becoming capable…

— Simone Weil

Nothing is more common than energy in money-making, quite independent of any higher object than its accumulation. A man who devotes himself…

— Samuel Smiles

Catch a vista of maples in that long light and you see Autumn glowing through the leaves… The promise of gold and…

— Hal Borland

The time and the quality of the time that their parents devote to them indicate to children the degree to which they…

— M. Scott Peck

A currency serves three functions: providing a means of payment, a unit of account and a store of value. Gold may be…

— Nouriel Roubini

There was still gold and silverin the mountains, And hunger was a more immediate sorrow;

— Anonymous

Fire destroys all sophistry, that is deceit; and maintains truth alone, that is gold.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Moammar Gadhafi was found hiding in a storm sewer with a gold-plated gun. That's me in retirement, ladies and gentlemen.

— David Letterman

I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus.

— Albert Einstein

Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell 'em to do that, they'll find a little pot of gold.

— Tom Waits

You don't win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.

— Seth Godin

With volatility, you have the potential for greater gains but also greater losses.

— Edmund Moy

To have this gold medal around my neck is an indescribable feeling. I'm the happiest person right now.

— Jordyn Wieber

Dear, dead women, with such hair, too--what's become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms?

— Robert Browning

It's funny, when guests come over to the house, they want to see my gold medal first and my U.S. Open trophy…

— Justin Rose

The apostles had no gold, but lots of glory. We have lots of gold, but no glory.

— Leonard Ravenhill

Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.

— Adam Zagajewski

Writers who do crap work believe they have turned in spun gold and all their little darlings must be defended.

— Ben Domenech

Even the worst that happens to you can be converted into GOLD if you are clever enough.

— Curtis Jackson

It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.

— Martial

I was blessed with a long career where I won gold medals for myself and my country. Nothing stands out as a…

— Gail Devers