Gold Quotes · Page 45

You're still a person with or without that gold medal. It just represents the hard work.

— Jessica Long

You have to beat the king to be the king. No one is going to hand you a gold medal.

— Donovan Bailey

There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold.

— Coleman Young

I own a mortgage company and a real estate company funded by the music. Florida is a kinda gold mine.

— Vanilla Ice

I am a complete magpie when it comes to gold leaf. I use it throughout the year but it is especially fitting…

— John Whaite

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

— Jesse Owens

Now I'm a little hurt. Let me check my tears in the reflection of my championship gold.

— The Miz

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

— Diane Paulus

I love seeing people's reactions to gifts that I've created from my line, such as my gold horn ring, bottle openers, my…

— Kelly Wearstler

“I know now that all that glitters is not gold... However, I still go underrating men of gold, and glorifying men of…

— Mark Twain

There is, of course, a gold mine or a buried treasure on every mortgaged homestead. Whether the farmer ever digs for it…

— Fawn M. Brodie

My support system, in my surgeon, my P.T., my pilates, my weightlifting, everything that I'm doing to make my body and my…

— Kerri Walsh

Coming from the background that I come from, being a gold medalist, you see Ronda Rousey and Daniel Cormier doing so well.…

— Henry Cejudo

I 'd rather be handsome than homely; I 'd rather be youthful than old; If I can't have a bushel of silver…

— James Jeffrey Roche

The last book I read before I wrote my first book - 'Ghosts of Manhattan' - was 'The Gold Coast' by DeMille.…

— Douglas Brunt

There's such a deep, conservative feeling in 'The way Back.' You go, 'gosh, we've gotten narrow.' So at the moment I think…

— Peter Weir

The humblest observer who goes to the mines sees and says that gold-digging is of the character of a lottery; the gold…

— Henry David Thoreau

Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“He himself set the example, throwing away, with a spectacular gesture, a gold watch, a gold cigarette case, and several golden sovereigns.…

— Frank A. Worsley

If one takes pleasure in calling the gold standard a "barbarous relic," one cannot object to the application of the same term…

— Ludwig von Mises

A physicist looks for causes; that does not necessarily imply that there are causes everywhere. A man may look for gold without…

— Bertrand Russell

Economic theory has nothing to say as to what commodity will acquire the status of money. Historically, it happened to be gold.…

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

All the things that Hillary Clinton has changed. OK, she used to be strong at the border. Now everyone could stay. She…

— Brian Kilmeade

Among the myrtles the mantids moved, lightly, carefully, swaying slightly, the quintessence of evil. They were lank and green, with chinless faces…

— Gerald Durrell

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

— J Mascis

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

— Anonymous

The way to transmute your iron duty into gold in everyone's eyes is this: always deliver more than you promise.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“And in this matter, Gold, he’d said, rolling his eyes towards Frank, we have had an early advantage.”

— Joan London

Winning a gold medal was something I always wanted. It's something I always expected to do.

— Cael Sanderson

“Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the…

— Charles Dickens

Gold has two significant shortcomings, being neither of much use nor procreative.

— Warren Buffett

Gold will never free your father, the price, my dear, is you instead.

— Bob Dylan

When we won gold I was expecting overwhelming relief, but it just didn't come.

— Stephanie Labbe

Two hundred and fifty mummies covered in gold. Something like this cannot be explained - mummy after mummy covered in shining gold.

— Zahi Hawass

There is one element that is worth its weight in gold and that is LOYALTY. It will cover a multitude of weaknesses.

— Philip Danforth Armour

What is great about being in sport was when you won, you got a gold medal and you knew you had won.

— Tanni Grey-Thompson

Gold and diamonds are nice, but clean, crisp, controlled water has long been the preeminent hallmark of the rich.

— Anthony Doerr

America is a country where the Olympics and the divorce lawyers both have the same slogan - Go for the Gold.

— Bob Hope

All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion.

— Anonymous

I'd love to try and get a summer and winter gold medal-that would be amazing.

— Shaun White