About Quote by Will Hobbs

I really wanted to write an adventure story, a murder-mystery that was set during the gold-rush years in New Zealand.

— Eleanor Catton

Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer.

— Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

I thought there was something inherently interesting in people turning to gold. It's pretty cool.

— Ryan North

“discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the beginning of the conquest and…

— Jack Weatherford

The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the turning of Africa into…

— Karl Marx

“Some miners’ wives take in washing and make more money than their husbands do. In every gold rush from this one to the Klondike,…

— John McPhee

“A half-century later, Mark Twain would say that the gold rush drastically changed the American character, ending the tradition of patient apprenticeships, the gradual…

— Pete Hamill

A gold book, fastened together in the shape of a book by wires of the same metal, had been dug up in the northern…

— Charles Anthon

My work as a whole is about excavating and shining a light on pieces of history that not only need to be seen and…

— Rhiannon Giddens

The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in making geological and zoological…

— Anonymous

I've always just wanted to work on interesting projects.

— Phoebe Dynevor

It may come as a surprise but I also really started to get into history while I was at school. I found the projects…

— Rory McIlroy