Copper Quotes

• Through love scraps of copper are turned to gold.

  Rumi

  Love, Gold, Divinity

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• Just because there's tarnish on the copper, doesn't mean there's not a shine beneath.

  Laurence Yep

  Mean, Shining

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• Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.

  Thomas Hood

  Mind, Wire, Brass

  Thomas Hood (1847). “Poems”, p.204

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• If you want to be a conduit for God's grace, you don't have to be lined with gold. Copper will do.

  John Piper

  Grace, Gold, Want

  John Piper (2013). “Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry”, p.205, B&H Publishing Group

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• There's something about materials like copper, woods, stone, trees, shells. You walk outside and these materials are part of the world before we touched anything. There's a feeling of pleasure that many of us have in materials that have some presence before us, like clay and wood and copper.

  Jessica Stockholder

  Tree, Feelings, Clay

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. October 10, 2012.

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• My ignorance of science is such that if anyone mentioned copper nitrate I should think he was talking about policemen's overtime.

  Donald Coggan

  Ignorance, Thinking, Talking

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• Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner.

  Catherine Helen Spence

  Discovery, Australia, South

  Catherine Helen Spence, Susan Magarey, Maryan Beams (2005). “Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)”, p.49, Wakefield Press

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• The Crafty Cockney had a picture of the owner dressed up as a copper, so I brought it home, wore it on TV and the name just stuck.

  Eric Bristow

  Home, Names, Tvs

  "Small Talk: Eric Bristow". Interview with Nick Harper, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2003.

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• An intense copper calm, like a universal yellow lotus, was more and more unfolding its noiseless measureless leaves upon the sea.

  Herman Melville

  Sunset, Sea, Yellow

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.346, Velvet Element Books

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• From myself I am copper, through you, friend, I am gold. From myself I’m a stone, but through you, I am a gem!

  Rumi

  Gold, Stones, Gems

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• Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources.

  Bill Gates

  Ghana, Kenya, Globalization

  "Bill Gates Talks to TIME About the Three Myths of Global Aid". Interview with Jeffrey Kluger, time.com. January 21, 2014.

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• The sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper,/ set the clouds/ to one great roof of flame/ above the earth.

  Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

  Sunset, Clouds, Flames

  Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (1968). “Down Half the World”, New York : Macmillan

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• You can't trust the 'specials' like the old time 'coppers' When you can't find your way home.

  Marie Lloyd

  Home, Way, Old Time

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• It was very dark; but in the murky sky there were masses of cloud which shone with a lurid light, like monstrous heaps of copper that had been heated in a furnace, and were growing cold.

  Charles Dickens

  Dark, Clouds, Light

  Charles Dickens (1872). “A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens”, p.456

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• Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him.

  Mark Twain

  Drinking, Beer, Men

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• He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting 'All the Gods are bastards.'

  Terry Pratchett

  Thunderstorm, Shouting, Persons

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• Today I walked on the lion-coloured hills with only cypresses for company, until the sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper set the clouds to one great roof of flame above the earth, so that I walk through fire, beneath fire, and all in beauty. Being alone I could not be alone, but felt (closer than flesh) the presence of those who once had burned in such transfigurations. My happiness ran through the centuries in one continual brightness. Looking down, I saw the earth beneath me like a rose petaled with mountains, fragrant with deep peace.

  Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

  Sunset, Night, Flames

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• The male clerk with his quill pen and copper-plate handwriting had gone for good. The female short-hand typist took his place. It was a decisive moment in women's emancipation.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Hands, History, Clerks

  A. J. P. Taylor (2001). “English History 1914-1945”, p.38, Oxford Paperbacks

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• The vessel, though her masts be firm,Beneath her copper bears a worm.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Bears, Worms, Masts

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.148, Penguin

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• Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through Love all dregs will become wine, through Love all pain will turn to medicine.

  Rumi

  Sweet, Pain, Wine

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• At 7:45 p.m. I was shot in the left arm by a friend. The bullet was a copper jacket 22 long rifle. My friend was standing about fifteen feet from me.

  Chris Burden

  Feet, Long, Rifles

  Chris Burden, Anne Ayres, Paul Schimmel, Newport Harbor Art Museum (1988). “Chris Burden: a twenty-year survey”

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• In our daily intercourse with men, our nobler faculties are dormant and suffered to rust. None will pay us the compliment to expect nobleness from us. Though we have gold to give, they demand only copper.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Character, Men, Giving

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.111, Penguin

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• In that memorable year, 1822: Oersted, a Danish physicist, held in his hands a piece of copper wire, joined by its extremities to the two poles of a Volta pile. On his table was a magnetized needle on its pivot, and he suddenly saw (by chance you will say, but chance only favours the mind which is prepared) the needle move and take up a position quite different from the one assigned to it by terrestrial magnetism. A wire carrying an electric current deviates a magnetized needle from its position. That, gentlemen, was the birth of the modern telegraph.

  Louis Pasteur

  Moving, Memorable, Science

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• Lords are gold and knights steel, but two links can't make a chain. You also need silver and iron and lead, tin and copper and bronze and all the rest, and those are farmers and smiths and merchants and the like. A chain needs all sorts of metals, and a land needs all sorts of people.

  George R. R. Martin

  Knights, Land, Two

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.381, Bantam

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• There comes, even to kings, the time of great weariness. Then the gold of the throne is brass, the silk of the palace becomes drab. The gems in the diadem and upon the fingers of the women sparkle drearily like the ice of white seas; the speech of men is as the empty rattle of a jester's bell and the feel comes of things unreal; even the sun is copper in the sky and the breath of the green ocean is no longer fresh.

  Robert E. Howard

  Kings, Ocean, Men

  Robert E. Howard (2006). “Kull: Exile of Atlantis”, p.83, Del Rey

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