Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isaac Watts

I would not change my native landFor rich Peru with all her gold

Because gold represents light to me. Gold and crystal. Because I need light for painting and I also need light to look. It's the most fascinating thing, how it changes.

Certainly, there were three gold medals we could've potentially won. That's why you play the game, though.

Daniel Alfredsson

But you learn from it and you move on. Nobody can take this (pointing at his gold medal) away from us, either.

His hair is more naturally sun-kissed, and he has a little less of a golden tan.

Whitey Herzog

but he really does have a heart of gold.

But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.

Michael Greis

I'm now going home with another gold medal. I think this is a really good surprise.

Asafa Powell

I'll be there and we will win the relay gold for sure,

If the new guy is the right guy, he is worth his weight in gold. If he is the wrong guy, you have a severance package that is substantially more expensive.

I heard about Senior Olympics when I was 50. If we win (today), we'll play for gold or silver on Friday.

Neil Young

I haven't sung it for a long time. I can only do that one with the musicians whom I like to play with. On the (1999) Silver and Gold tour, out of 40 shows, I might have played it three times.

I don't know. I do have two trophies, a gold and silver, and he just has one.

I don't know if people really realize how good Steve is. The United States could have put him on their Olympic team in Greece (in 2004), and they would have won a gold medal (instead of bronze). ... he's one of those once-in-a-lifetime players that doesn't come by very often.

Shaun White

I didn't know if I would get the gold, I just knew I wanted it.

It used to be about the golden years. We talk about it (now) as a place where you start your second life. It's not about slowing down.

Wu Minxia

It (the gold medal) is the most precious medal I've got

They are hyped up and ready to study to go for the gold.

They have won a gold medal, even if we get revenge by default.

They just love listening to (the Golden Harmonizers) sing and perform. They put on such a great show and are very funny!

It is the goose that will lay the golden egg.

Peter Alliss

It's for all the gold in the world.

Fool's gold. We knew we were in for a tussle, the way (the Spartans) can shoot it.

It looks like the gold and oil prices are down, so we will probably give a little back.

Logan Pearsall Smith

All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty.

Lynne Truss

Evidently an A level in English is a sacred trust, like something out of "The Lord of the Rings". You must go forth with your A level and protect the English language with your bow of elfin gold.

Lysander Spooner

Practically and commercially speaking, a dollar is not necessarily a specific thing, made of silver, or gold, or any other single metal, or substance. It is only such a quantum of market value as exists in a given piece of silver or gold.

John Gardner

Find a pile of gold and sit on it.

Jonathan Carroll

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

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

Ovid

Gold will buy the highest honours; and gold will purchase love.

Oscar Hammerstein II

I'd let my golden chances pass me by.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes - are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.