- Nov 07, 2020
Gold Quotes
From rush-era history to turning mishaps into gold.
Gold shows up here in wildly different forms — the literal 19th-century Gold Rush that helped build towns like Sacramento, gold-toned '60s fashion palettes, and the shimmer of ancient gilded artifacts. See also our Golden quotes for a closer look at the color itself.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Coins
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think my gap adds character. A while ago, on the street, a guy yelled, 'You could stick a gold through your front teeth!' Which meant I could put a £1 coin between them. But you can't. I've tried! Fifty-pence coins and 2-pence coins, yes. But not a pound.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
While starving refugees in Homs were providing target practice for government snipers, Bashar al-Assad's strongest international backer was in Sochi, at the Iceberg Skating Palace, visibly moved, smiling with deep satisfaction, as the Russians beautifully glided and leaped their way to the gold medal in the team event.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I live to hail that season by gifted one foretold, when men shall live by reason, and not alone by gold.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone is getting prepared for this, to win the gold medal. I am among them: I want to win the medal.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first gold was in the 2002 cadet national. I realized I was good enough even outside my village and my district.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It's a game! The magic spells in it are as real as the gold. Try retiring on that stuff.
- Commonwealth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now I know the difference between a rousing reception and a pat on the back. Now I know the difference between a gold in Commonwealth Games and a bronze in Olympics.
- Create
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tourism is important because it can create sustainable local economies. I'd much rather have 1,000 tourists going up the Tambopata than 1,000 gold miners.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, winning the gold medal was undoubtedly the biggest day of my career - mostly because I won the way I had prepared to run it. It was a totally satisfying experience.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could be winning the decathlon in high school, which I've won twice, yet, if my dad is in the audience, 'Oh look! It's Anthony Quinn.' And I'm like, 'Hello? Kid just got a gold medal. Hello? I'm over here.'
- Circular
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- Nov 07, 2020
The kings of Spain brought us the conquistadores and masters, whose footprints remained in the circular land grants assigned to those searching for gold in the sands of rivers, an abusive and shameful form of exploitation, traces of which can be noted from the air in many places around the country.
- Friday
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- Nov 07, 2020