Gold Quotes

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

I'm trying to focus on the 100 and 200 breaststroke now. There's no point concentrating on the 50 when it's not in the Olympics. I'm not going to quit the 50 but it's not my priority any more. I'll do it but as part of my bid for gold at the other distances.

I can go completely berserk with the makeup, depending on the event. I'm currently in this very mod stage. I wear false lashes and color on my eyelids. I'm really liking shiny eyelids in copper, rose, gold, or silver.

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.

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

When not only gold but all commodities are available for the redemption of the paper currency, its volume is limited only by the value of all the wealth of the country, and it can never become insecure up to this limit.

I have a lot of bitter memories from Beijing. Hopefully, we can erase those memories and bring the gold back to Japan.

After watching my first World Series in 1977, I wanted to be Reggie Jackson. I bought a big Reggie poster. I ate Reggie candy bars. I entered a phase during which I insisted on having the same style of glasses Reggie had: gold wire frames with the double bar across.

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.

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

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold.

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.

I've learned that winning isn't everything, and it's more about the journey. But at the end of the day, I just want to stand on the podium with the gold medal.

I've spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold.

As an actor, it's great to play a strong leader with a heart of gold.

The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of '49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific.

When I decided to go for four gold medals I planned it out over a few years. It was in four different events and there was a lot to it.

As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time.

Although it was a great accomplishment to win a gold medal, as soon as they put it on you, that's it; your career is over.

Frank Marth also played many characters with us, and like George Petrie, he was worth his weight in gold.

I say, if you believe what you read in the comic strips, then you believe that mice run around with little gold buttons on their red pants and drive cars.

A gold book, fastened together in the shape of a book by wires of the same metal, had been dug up in the northern part of the state of New York, and along with the book an enormous pair of gold spectacles!

Being gay has nothing to do with the three gold medals or the three MVPs or the four championships I've won. I'm still the same person. I'm Sheryl.

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

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

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

I can't immediately get all this coverage when my record comes out. The way I sell gold and platinum records is by being on the road.

Coming in as a veteran, I'd like to finish with a gold medal.