Silver Quotes - Page 25

• There will be a rusty gun on the wall, sweetheart,
  The rifle grooves curling with flakes of rust.
  A spider will make a silver string nest in the darkest, warmest
  corner of it.

  Carl Sandburg

  Wall, Gun, Rifles

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.

  Thomas More

  Gold, Use, May

  Thomas More (1997). “Utopia”, p.80, Wordsworth Editions

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• The folly of men has enhanced the value of gold and silver because of their scarcity; whereas, on the contrary, it is their opinion that Nature, as an indulgent parent, has freely given us all the best things in great abundance, such as water and earth, but has laid up and hid from us the things that are vain and useless.

  Thomas More

  Men, Water, Parent

  Sir Thomas More (2009). “Utopia: On the Best State of a Republic and on the New Island of Utopia”, p.93, The Floating Press

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• I like Silver Surfer because he's the most philosophical, always philosophizing about the human race and the human condition and why people are the way they are, why they don't appreciate this wonderful planet they live on... he has a nice moral tone.

  Stan Lee

  Nice, Philosophical, Race

  "A Chat With Stan Lee, `Godfather' Of Marvel Comics". Interview with Chip & Jonathan Carter, articles.chicagotribune.com. January 19, 1996.

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• I want to just obey the Constitution.The Constitution says only gold and silver can be legal tender.

  Ron Paul

  Gold, Want, Constitution

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution says Congress has the ability to coin money and regulate the currency and doesn't say anything about gold or silver.

  Ron Paul

  Say Anything, Gold, Coins

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• There is a director who should make 'Silver Surfer' - he is mentally committed to it. He's doing another movie now. What's most important to me about this guy, first, is that he's incredible with visuals. But he's also a spiritual guy, a Zen Buddhist. ... Galactus is a force of nature, not a being. That's all I'm saying.

  Avi Arad

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Guy

  "Avi Arad on the Marvel Comic Franchises" by Brian B., movieweb.com. June 21, 2005.

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• The roe of the Russian sturgeon has probably been present at more important international affairs than have all the Russian dignitaries of history combined. This seemingly simple article of diet has taken its place in the world along with pearls, sables, old silver, and Cellini cups.

  James Beard

  Food, Taken, Simple

  James Beard (2015). “Hors d'Oeuvre and Canapés”, p.43, Open Road Media

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• I thought it might be fun to set my books in Nevada, which is in the West and still pretty Wild. You can still gamble, carry a loaded pistol and go into a silver-mine and they still have saloons with swinging doors, boardwalks, and horses.

  Caroline Lawrence

  Horse, Fun, Book

  "My inspiration: Caroline Lawrence on Mark Twain" by Caroline Lawrence, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2014.

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• It's very important to remain optimistic and to see the silver lining in everything you do. Because no matter how sometimes things look difficult, and look like there is no hope, there is always a small glimmering of silver lining that is in everything, and I always look for that, and hang on that, and before I know it, another day comes and is gone.

  Wangari Maathai

  Optimistic, Important, Looks

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Men, Spoons, Mouths

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Quixote de la Mancha (don, fict.name.) (1847). “The history of don Quixote de la Mancha. From the Span. To which is prefixed a sketch of the life and writings of the author. Select libr. ed”, p.418

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• I'm thinking wanting to succeed is something in my DNA; I'm not like 'I've got to succeed,' I just don't think about that... I see a silver lining in everything and I see a lesson in everything.

  Queen Latifah

  Thinking, Dna, Lessons

  "Queen Latifah Takes Her Last Holiday". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. January 11, 2006.

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• Guess now who holds thee?'--'Death,' I said. But,
  there,
  The silver answer rang, . . . 'Not Death, but Love.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Death, Answers

  'Sonnets from the Portuguese' (1850) no. 1

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• I started my career giving a clinic in bad acting in the film, "The Silver Chalice," and now I'm playing a crusty old man who's an animated automobile [in "Cars"]. That's a creative arc for you, isn't it?

  Paul Newman

  Men, Careers, Giving

  "Newman remains animated at 81". Craig Modderno, Reuters, June 12, 2006.

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• I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know its friends from its foes, and I lost all my remaining respect for it, and pitied it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spoons, Half, Saws

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.83, Penguin

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• Since my stroke, I have begun to see so many miracles all around me. I look out of the window in my room: verdant grass, silver-tipped oak leaves, tall palm trees gentle swaying as they reach to the sky, masses and masses of roses. All colors, so many shapes, exquisite fragrances.

  Kirk Douglas

  Sky, Color, Rose

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• Dappled sunlight and looked at the silver vapor swirling inside. "Mist gathered at first light on the first day of the new moon on the Isle of Avalon," he said. "Yep. Good for one hour of great talent," said Annie. Jack smiled, remembering their hour as horse trainers and their hour as stage magicians. "I wonder what we'll be great at this time," he said. "Maybe great nurses?" said Annie. "We'll see," said Jack. He put the tiny bottle in his backpack; then he picked up the piece of paper from the floor. On the paper he had written the two secrets of greatness they'd

  Mary Pope Osborne

  Horse, Moon, Greatness

  Mary Pope Osborne (2014). “High Time for Heroes”, p.11, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• What are we singers but the silver-voiced messengers of the poet and the musician?

  Nellie Melba

  Art, Musician, Singers

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• The regrets I have are so minor. You know, would I leave my Keith Richards hat, with the silver skull on it, on the stool at the coffee shop at LaGuardia? I wouldn't do that again. But overall, no, I don't have any regrets.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Regret, Coffee, Skulls

  Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• I want to take you to a place of pure magic... It's the place athletes call the "zone". Buddhists call "satori" and ravers call "trance". I call it the Silver Desert. It's a place of pure light that holds the dark within it. It's a place of pure rhythm.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Buddhist, Athlete, Dark

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• Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies, and all the things that can be compared unto her.

  Solomon

  Men, Hands, Understanding

  "Proverbs". 3:13-15,

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• Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back, When gold and silver becks me to come on.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Temptation, Gold

  'King John' (1591-8) act 3, sc. 3, l. 12

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• When I was a kid I used to tell myself the moon was a silver gong and if I could climb high enough to beat on it with both hands all my wishes would come true.

  John Dos Passos

  Kids, Moon, Hands

  John Dos Passos (1934). “Three Plays: The Garbage Man, Airways, Inc., Fortune Heights”

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• He who is born with a silver spoon in his mouth is generally considered a fortunate person, but his good fortune is small compared to that of the happy mortal who enters this world with a passion for flowers in his soul.

  Celia Thaxter

  Flower, Passion, Garden

  Celia Thaxter (2008). “An Island Garden”, p.4, Applewood Books

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• Walk the lines of nature's palm crossed with silver and with gold.

  Ian Anderson

  Nature, Gold, Lines

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