Gold Quotes · Page 63

Far clouds of feathery gold, Shaded with deepest purple, gleam Like islands on a dark blue sea.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

You do not get gold stars for cleaning your toilet. In actual life, there is a depressing lack of stickers.

— Alexandra Petri

This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms the diseased slums of a broken heart into a palace made of psalms and gold.

— Aberjhani

Just as with the man in the fairy tale who turned whatever he touched into gold, with me everything is turned into…

— Albert Einstein

“Social media posting is lots of gravel with the occasional golden nugget!”

— Steven Magee

DREAM PREDICTION ELITE is the realization of true amazement in your audiences reactions. This is PURE GOLD - A REAL WINNER

— Banachek

Prayer is always in danger of degenerating into a glorified gold rush. How to get things from God occupies most [books].

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.

— Paracelsus

Gray goes with gold. Gray goes with all colors. I've done gray-and-red paintings, and gray and orange go so well together. It…

— Ellsworth Kelly

Once we have tasted far streams, touched the gold, found some limit beyond the waterfall, a season changes and we come back…

— William Stafford

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no…

— Samuel Johnson

Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace…

— Charles Caleb Colton

If I bring back only one gold people are going to say it's a disappointment. But not too many of them own…

— Michael Phelps

“Take this drink as a token of my disrepute and spin that hay tonight and tomorrow it will be shining golden bright…

— Initially NO

If I want only pure water, what does it matter to me whether it be brought in a vase of gold or…

— Saint Francis de Sales

We have lost the old love of work, of work which kept itself company, which was fair weather and music in the…

— John Lancaster Spalding

There once was a miller with a daughter as lovely as a grape. He told the king that she could spin gold…

— Anne Sexton

Stacy Schiff is that rare combination: a first-rate historian and a brilliant storyteller. Using a wide range of sources, she spins straw…

— Rick Riordan

An archer competing for a clay vessel shoots effortlessly, his or her skill and concentration unimpeded. If the prize is changed to…

— Zhuangzi

The major credit I think Jim and I deserve ... is for selecting the right problem and sticking to it. It's true…

— Francis Crick

Each night the sun sank right in our eyes along the sea, making an undulating glittering pathway, a golden track charted on…

— Lawrence Beesley

What is charm, it is not a moral quality, it is not intellectual for no man by much thinking is able to…

— Flora Thompson

The mind turned inwards is the Self; turned outwards, it becomes the ego and all the world. Cotton made into various clothes…

— Ramana Maharshi

Thankfully the rest of the world assumed that the Irish were crazy, a theory that the Irish themselves did nothing to debunk.…

— Eoin Colfer

Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.

— Dan Gable

Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets, but gold that's put to use more gold begets.

— William Shakespeare

Goldfish in Chinese restaurants are there to draw in the gold, the money.

— May Pang

I would not have you exchange the gold of individual Christianity for the base metal of Christian Socialism.

— Charles Spurgeon

“A gold cage is still a cage. -King David I Oh, go cry in a bag of money. -Queen Christina”

— MaryJanice Davidson

Well, my dad got me this gold bike, this BMX. It's super cool. But it wasn't because I'm famous.

— Caleb McLaughlin

Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment.

— Eckhart Tolle

A fine meal...is a delight in itself; add a glass of wine-gleaming red or translucent greenish gold-and delectation will be doubled.

— Alexis Lichine

See the children run as the sun goes down. As you lie in fields of gold.

— Eva Cassidy

A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.

— Barry Goldwater

Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty.

— Mary Astell

Misers mistake gold for their good; whereas 'tis only a means of attaining it.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is disgusting to pick your teeth; what is vulgar is to use a gold toothpick.

— Louis Kronenberger

I have never been ready 100% even when I was racing in my gold times.

— Robert Kubica

You lack a foot to travel? Then journey into yourself - that leads to transformation of dust into pure gold.

— Rumi