Gold Quotes - Page 29

• My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a gold charm for her made with the speak no, see no, hear no evil monkeys. And I was fascinated by that charm. I'd sit in my mother's lap and play with it all the time.

  Mackenzie Phillips

  Wise, Mother, Father

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• When goods are exchanged between countries, they must be paid for by commodities or gold. They cannot be paid for by the notes, certificates, and checks of the purchaser's country, since these are of value only in the country of issue.

  Carroll Quigley

  Country, Issues, Commodity

  Carroll Quigley (1966). “Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time”, New York : Macmillan [c1966]

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• Back in 1960, the paper dollar and the silver dollar both were the same value. They circulated next to each other. Today? The paper dollar has lost 95% of its value, while the silver dollar is worth $34, and produced a 2-3 times rise in real value. Since we left the gold standard in 1971, both gold and silver have become superior inflation hedges.

  Mark Skousen

  Real, Dollars, Paper

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• Bitcoin is not an actual physical coin, and if computers are shut down, you can't buy or sell them. That's why nothing will ever replace gold and silver coins themselves, and all investors should have them at home or in a safe deposit box.

  Mark Skousen

  Home, Should Have, Flipping A Coin

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• I'll plant and water, sow and weed, Till not an inch of earth shows brown, And take a vow of each small seed To grow to greenness and renown: And then some day you'll pass my way, See gold and crimson, bell and star, And catch my garden's soul, and say: "How sweet these cottage gardens are!"

  E. Nesbit

  Weed, Sweet, Stars

  Edith Nesbit, “Seed-Time And Harvest”

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• Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow

  Douglas Pagels

  Inspirational, Happiness, Success

  Alin Austin, Douglas Pagels (1993). “100 Things to Always Remember-- and One Thing to Never Forget”, Blue Mountain Arts

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• Truths are immortal, my dear friend; they are immortal like God! What we call a falsity is like a fruit; it has a certain number of days; it is bound to decay. Whereas, what we call truth is like gold; days, months, even centuries can hide gold, can overlook it but they can never make it decay.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Truth, Numbers, Decay

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• In autumn, don't go to jewellers to see gold; go to the parks!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Nature, Autumn, Parks

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• I knew that life isn't always just about the Olympic gold medals and the sponsors.

  Nastia Liukin

  Sponsors, Gold Medals, Medal

  Interview with Darren Rovell, www.cnbc.com. August 20, 2008.

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• Winning an Olympic gold medal is like nothing else.

  Rebecca Lobo

  Winning, Medal, Gold Medals

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• To compete at the Olympic Games, I dreamed of any medal, but frankly speaking, I wanted a gold one.

  Adelina Sotnikova

  Games, Wanted, Medal

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• Americans are always mortified when I tell them this, but in England, it's a tradition to put your plaques and photographs and awards and gold records and stuff in your bathroom. I don't know why.

  Adele

  Awards, Records, Stuff

  "Women in Music: Adele". Interview with April Long, www.elle.com. June 15, 2009.

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• Often the wicked prosper, while the righteous starve; yet I would never exchange my state for theirs, my virtue for their gold. For mine endures, while riches change their owner every day.

  Solon

  Wicked, Riches, Virtue

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• As per the age-old Customs and Central Excise Rules 1967, a person is allowed to carry only Rs 20,000 worth of gold.

  Vayalar Ravi

  Age, Persons, Customs

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• There are five kids in my family and I'm the only one who didn't get a diploma. All the kids got their diplomas hanging in my father's room and I got my gold records. I'd say he was more proud of the diplomas.

  Ronnie Van Zant

  Father, Kids, Records

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• One thing I always tell people. If you want to be gold medalist, you partner one.

  Howard Bach

  People, Want, Partners

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• Coming in as a veteran, I'd like to finish with a gold medal.

  Howard Bach

  Veteran, Medal, Gold Medals

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• Imagination transforms one substance into another. It changes what is into what might be, what was into what might have been. Straw becomes gold, gold straw, and neither is more real nor, I submit, more precious than the other. Pebbles turn into luminous pearls and pearls into little gray rocks, both solid and beautiful, both essential. Human beings take shape from clay, angels' wings are spun out of water, fire gives rise to the long tongues of demons, love emerges out of thin air, and the basic elements reconstitute themselves again and again.

  Steve Rasnic Tem

  Beautiful, Real, Angel

  Steve Rasnic Tem, Melanie Tem (2008). “The Man on the Ceiling”, Wizards of the Coast Discoveries

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• God is not looking for gold vessels or silver vessels. He is looking for willing vessels

  Kathryn Kuhlman

  Silver, Willing, Vessel

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• I'm sitting in the bleachers, watching longingly as all the boys and umbumped girls in my Personal Health and Fitness class play Muggle Quidditch. I don't even like the game very much, I think it's silly, but I so miss physical activity that I'd be thrilled if I could run around the gymnasium with a broom between my legs, chasing after the human snitch wearing a gold pinny.

  Megan McCafferty

  Girl, Running, Silly

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• I hoped to win a medal and hoped it would be gold. I knew I was good but didn't know I would be the one to score something that had never been done before.

  Nadia Comaneci

  Winning, Would Be, Done

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• All that glitters is sold as gold.

  Ogden Nash

  Glitter

  Ogden Nash, “Look What You Did, Christopher!”

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• Pray do not grieve so; but go and take a stone, and place it in the hole, and fancy that the gold is still lying there. It will do you quite the same service; for when the gold was there, you had it not, as you did not make the slightest use of it.

  Aesop

  Lying, Grieving, Use

  Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables”, p.30, Aesop

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• The outdoor Christmas lights, green and red and gold and blue and twinkling, remind me that most people are that way all year round--kind, generous, friendly and with an occasional moment of ecstasy. But Christmas is the only time they dare reveal themselves.

  Harland Miller

  Christmas, Light, Blue

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• Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay Charles Caleb Colton.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Noble, Affliction, Clay

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