Gold Quotes

And I want a gold medal more than anything. I just want a gold medal, so that's been pushing me forward.

The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

Love is the only gold.

I hate gold. I'm sort of a sterling-silver guy.

O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!

I have managed to eke out a good and substantial existence. I'm not shoveling gold bricks or anything, but I do very, very well.

I want to win a gold medal in London.

You do not boo an Olympic Gold Medalist. I'm the best in the world. I came here for you. You don't boo me.

The Philippines has vast minerals that are still untapped. It has one of the world's largest deposits of gold, nickel, copper and chromite. Through responsible mining, we intend to generate more revenues from the extraction of these resources.

And should think freedom more to prize, than all the gold in world that is.

I am called a gold digger all the time. I don't care. There is nothing you can do about what other people say.

A gold standard doesn't imply stability in the prices of the goods and services that people buy every day, it implies a stability in the price of gold itself.

There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Apolo is going to have to keep skating so he can add more gold to his entourage.

Gold has an almost atavistic lure. People feel it has a panacea effect.

When hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world went to the Yukon to look for gold, the original prospectors had already claimed most of it.

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.

I'm the kind of person who would have liked to have lived at the Plaza. I love crystal chandeliers and gold leaf, velvets and mirrors, Oriental rugs and marble.

I don't like to have to pan for gold when I read.

You know, my uncle wore a lot of jewelry, a lot of gold chains.

I ordered gold in the meantime to be showered down without ceasing among the happy multitude.

On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom.

The white man has got the gold out of the land which belonged to the red man.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins.

We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart that only gold can cure.

You'd be safe to hold 5% of your assets and savings in gold and silver. Insurance for the future.

A mask of gold hides all deformities.

I have records in gold, in platinum, I have two Oscars, I have Grammys and so on.

If I never sang on a record again I can still look at my walls. They are covered floor to ceiling with gold and platinum records from all over the world.

Gold's was the first bodybuilding gym made for bodybuilders.

They came from all over the world to work out at Gold's Gym.

Silver, gold - I don't discriminate! I like sparkly things.

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

Heck, gold medals, what can you do with them?

As you know, Microsoft eventually kind of grabbed the gold ring out of Apple's hands, I guess.

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

I think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word 'lavish' and everything being magnificent.

Opting for gold shoes could have been considered downright cocky, but I was confident and never doubted my ability to deliver gold medals to match my shimmering footwear.

I'm aware of the writers who have previously received the Gold Dagger and I'm honoured to have my name on the same page.

I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.

But probably this is helps to win, to win, to gold, more gold medals, and to win most my important medal, heart of people. This is most important for me.

Do not hold everything as gold that shines like gold.

I knew that life isn't always just about the Olympic gold medals and the sponsors.

Winning an Olympic gold medal is like nothing else.

All metallics are neutrals. So it is absolutely fine to mix gold and silver; you just want it to look like it has purpose.

Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.

Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.

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

Gold is a great thing to sew into your garments if you're a Jewish family in Vienna in 1939, but I think civilized people don't buy gold, they invest in productive businesses.

You know, of course, the specimens are not alive. We have to fix them in a fixing liquid formaldehyde and then we have to do a rinsing and then we have to coat them in a thin layer of gold.

If you hit a midget on the head with a stick, he turns into 40 gold coins.

The Seven Cities of Gold always fascinated me. Southwestern U.S. history especially fascinates me. The whole spur of the Spanish exploration of the Southwestern U.S. was the search for these mythical Seven Cities of Gold.

He who has the gold makes the rules.

My goal is one Olympic gold medal. Not many people in this world can say, 'I'm an Olympic gold medalist.'

If I bring back only one gold people are going to say it's a disappointment. But not too many of them own an Olympic gold medal so if I get one I'm going to be happy.

Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

Hunger for gold is made greater as more gold is acquired.

Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them.

Nowadays a gold medal is a $1 million contract. Our athletes are our heroes.

Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.

There is never enough gold to redeem all the currency in circulation.

I don't wear diamond necklaces. I'm not against it but I never could afford it, so now I just wear gold. I wear bracelets, rings, anklets.

Billy Konchellah with his World Championship titles, Paul Ereng with his Olympic gold and Wilson Kipketer with his World records are my role models.

One day we're going to look back at $1,700 with nostalgia. People are going to be shocked at how inexpensive gold was when it could be snapped up for such a bargain price.

You know you can get gaudy with something, and they didn't do that. To me, I think it's very tasteful, well done, with the silver and gold and the engraving. I think it's very tasteful.

I never look at it like I'm wasting money when I'm buying gold.

I think gold is made for kings and pharaohs - that's what I am.

My great-great-grandfather was a shah back in the 1800s. Unfortunately, I don't have any gold coins or jewels to show for it.

Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity.

Every time one of my books sells a million copies in paperback, Pan Macmillan gives me a gold statuette of Pan. I have about 20 of them.

London 2012 is all about winning a medal. Not just any medal, the gold medal.

Gold all is not that doth golden seem.

To measure prices by a currency that is called by the same names as gold, but that is really inferior in value to gold, and then - because those prices are nominally higher than gold prices - to say that they are inflated, relatively to gold, is a perfect absurdity.

In reality there is no such thing as an inflation of prices, relatively to gold. There is such a thing as a depreciated paper currency.

You'll never find your gold on a sandy beach.