Gold Quotes

If you write a hit song for Britney Spears, it's worth several million dollars. Just one song! And it might have taken you two hours to do it. It's like mining for gold. It takes a lot of skill and a lot of technique.

Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

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

Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current.

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949, he had tons and tons of gold. When Bill Gates was a college dropout, Ferdinand already possessed billions of dollars and tons of gold. It wasn't stolen.

In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.

My big objective this season is to win three gold medals at the Olympics, in the road race, the time trial and the points race.

I have my gold forever and no one can ever take it away from me.

I think as a Canadian hockey player, you go through it in your mind so many times, being able to stand on that blue line and hear your national anthem play and being a gold medal champion, you dream of that. And then to be able to accomplish that and actually win a gold medal and represent your country its an amazing feeling.

I want to win a gold medal in London.

The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening.

My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and excite me: Gold chains linked you to the great fairy tales and myths, to Arabia, and India; to the great weight of the world, but lighter than a feather.

Gold medals are made out of sweat, blood and tears and effort in the gym every day.

It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same.

Of course, when you're training your whole life to get to the Olympics, you train for gold.

After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it.

Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.

Over the years, I've made many sacrifices to win two Olympic gold medals and put together winning streaks that will never be broken.

I have to follow my thoughts and mine for the gold. I have to dig it out.

Well, I don't think everything necessarily that I touch turns to gold, but I think I get great joy out of it regardless of whether it is successful or not.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing.

My father's encouragement is what has brought me this far, because when I grew up I wanted to be like him, and I knew I had that ability to become an athlete. Being an Olympian is one of the greatest things, and being an Olympic gold medallist is one of the most prestigious titles in the world.

Yeah, that's what kind of, we get the idea a little bit yeah, because other people from different countries also try as hard as they can to get a medal or a gold medal in the Olympic Games. And you know, if they can work hard, we can work hard as well.

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

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

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