Gold Quotes - Page 11

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

  Anna Benson

  People, Care, Can Do

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• Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction but that is to go to the very opposite extreme to where it lies. They go prospecting farther and farther away from the true lead, and are most unfortunate when they think themselves most successful.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lying, Successful, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.419, Penguin

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• I am completely honest and truthful when I say I don’t want a gold for myself. I want a gold for the team. You go up there and do it as a collective group and it’s so much more satisfying, I mean you look around and you see the faces and just wow, this was a team effort and we did this together. It’s incredible and that’s my dream. I wanna win a gold medal and see the flag go up, hear the national anthem and just know that I did it with my brothers standing next to me.

  Jonathan Horton

  Dream, Brother, Team

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• Of all created things the source is one, Simple, single as love; remember The cell and seed of life, the sphere That is, of child, white bird, and small blue dragon-fly Green fern, and the gold four-petalled tormentilla The ultimate memory. Each latent cell puts out a future, Unfolds its differing complexity As a tree puts forth leaves, and spins a fate Fern-traced, bird feathered, or fish-scaled.

  Kathleen Raine

  Life, Memories, Children

  Kathleen Raine (1989). “Selected Poems”, p.55, SteinerBooks

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• Growing up, you always dream of winning a gold medal. But coming into these Games, it wasn't something I was focused on. I'm just enjoying skating. This is the best season ever. I think that this year, my 3,000 meters has been stronger than the 1,500. The 1,500 has been anybody's race this year. When I was first, I still didn't know if that was enough.

  Cindy Klassen

  Dream, Growing Up, Winning

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• With a sound like a bat hitting a watermelon, pirate fist connected with pirate jaw and a gold tooth bounced across the deck.

  Gideon Defoe

  Gold Teeth, Pirate, Sound

  Gideon Defoe (2010). “The Pirates!: An Adventure with Scientists & An Adventure with Ahab”, p.12, Vintage

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• It is the job of the market to turn the base material of our emotions into gold.

  Andrei Codrescu

  Jobs, Emotion, Turns

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• Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from the world.

  Owen Feltham

  World, Fool, Curtains

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• But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do.

  George Saintsbury

  Giving, Style, Fiction

  George Saintsbury (1913). “The English Novel”

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• Going to the Olympics as a Maasai I want to make them proud because, after the warm welcome they gave me when I went back and being their leader, I want to also be the warrior in the Olympics. That will be something good because that will be the first Olympic gold medal for the Maasai.

  David Rudisha

  Warrior, Leader, Maasai

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• It's all about gold. It's all about gold, gold, gold, gold! Excess!

  Anna Dello Russo

  Excess

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• Keeping plenty of gold and jade in the palace makes no one able to defend it.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Jade, Able

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• A road need not be paved in gold to find treasures at its end.

  Alan Brennert

  Needs, Treasure, Ends

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• I have heard your orators speak on many questions. One among them the so-called vital question of money which is above all things the most coveted commodity but I, as a Jainist, in the name of my countrymen and of my country, would offer you as the medium of the most perfect exchange between us, henceforth and forever, the indestructible, the unchangeable, the universal currency of good will and peace, and this, my brothers and sisters, is a currency that is not interchangeable with silver and gold, it is a currency of the heart, of the good life, of the highest estate on the earth.

  Virchand Gandhi

  Country, Brother, Good Life

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• You never enjoy the world aright, till the Sea itself flowers in your veins,
  till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars: and
  perceive yourself to be the sole heir of the whole world, and more than
  so, because men and women are in it who are every one sole heirs as well
  as you. Till you can sing and rejoice and delight, as misers do in gold, and
  kings in scepters, you never enjoy the world.

  Thomas Traherne

  Stars, Kings, Flower

  'Centuries of Meditations' Century 1, 29

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• Hebrew is the most wonderful of languages, a language of a thousand antonyms, hard and strong as steel, while soft and gleaming as gold.

  Ze'ev Jabotinsky

  Strong, Steel, Hebrew

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• I could see why someone would want to make a website about me, and my quotes. They are all gold. How many people have written, directed AND starred in their own movies. I just don't know why they would want to put words into my mouth, I mean I did write, direct AND star in a critically acclaimed movie.

  Zach Braff

  Stars, Writing, Mean

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• I mean, so what if it's a little dangerous? A one-armed kid is comedy gold.

  Zach Braff

  Mean, Kids, What If

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• Eight gold medals? If I wanted I could make a movie about me winning nine gold medals. Now that's real power.

  Zach Braff

  Real, Winning, Eight

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• Dress suitably in short skirts and sitting boots, leave your jewels and gold wands in the bank, and buy a revolver.

  Constance Markievicz

  Women, Jewels, Dresses

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• Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make Of hammered gold and gold enameling To keep a drowsy Emperor awake; Or set upon a golden bough to sing To lords and ladies of Byzantium Of what is past, or passing, or to come.

  William Butler Yeats

  Nature, Past, Byzantium

  "Sailing to Byzantium" l. 30 (1928)

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• In America time was gold; in Bangladesh, corrugated tin.

  Amy Waldman

  America, Tin, Bangladesh

  Amy Waldman (2011). “The Submission: A Novel”, p.75, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Every new search is a voyage to the Indies, a quest for buried treasure, a journey to the end of the rainbow; and whether or not at the end there shall be turned up a pot of gold or merely a delightful volume, there are always wonders along the way.

  Vincent Starrett

  Journey, Rainbow, Quests

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• So dear a life your arms enfold, Whose crying is a cry for gold.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Arms, Cry

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.916, Delphi Classics

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• . . . More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheeps or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Not only for themselves but for those who call them friend? For so this whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Dream, Prayer

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Passing of Arthur' (1869) l. 414

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