Gold Quotes

People have said to me, You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument. But I've got 10 gold records.

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic career developed only by lucky circumstances.

And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold.

I woke up on the plane this morning and was turning on my phone and I had to put my pin number in. That's when I realized that since the age of 10 I've been using 2012 as my pin number. But now that I've won gold in the 2012 Olympics, I've achieved that goal and, for the first time in 14 years, I'll have to change my pin.

Silver and gold the Gods have denied them, whether in mercy or in wrath, I am unable to determine.

I had my Olympic gold medal cut up into eleven pieces. Gave all eleven of my kids a piece. It'll come together again when they put me down.

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Accordingly, when the supply of gold runs short, the security behind the notes is diminished, the loaning of notes is restricted or suspended, and the panic follows.

I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.

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

I like a man who can be a real friend, has a good sense of humor, a good pair of shoes and a healthy gold card.

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

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

I had been with the label since I was 21. The label wanted shiny pop but I didn't. I found a little independent and we've got all these great reviews in England and now it has gone gold.

The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.

No matter what, like, I couldn't - I could break a world record, get an Olympic gold medal, and my mom would be, like, you could have done better. But you looked pretty. That's what she says all the time.

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

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.

The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California.

In 1925, when Britain went back to the gold standard, that was supported by the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, the Bank of England, the civil service, the CBI, the TUC, the Times, the Economist; that consensus was very strong.

It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for 'Scent of a Woman.' It was a new feeling. I'd never felt it. I don't see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.

At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only.

Winning an Olympic gold medal is like nothing else.

Enter with the torch in the stadium. 80,000 people screaming. I was waiting downstairs for the start for 10 hours; I was so tired with the torch. I give the torch to the combined ski cross country that they win gold in Lillehammer in 1994.

Her godmother simply touched her with her wand, and, at the same moment, her clothes were turned into cloth of gold and silver, all decked with jewels.

Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world.

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

Those that go gold into the furnace will come out no worse.

All those rappers, they're the only glamorous people working in music now. They dress up in these chains of gold, cars, girls and this and that, high-heeled shoes.