I have records in gold, in platinum, I have two Oscars, I have Grammys and so on.
~By Celine Dion ~
The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.
~By Jesse Owens ~
We moved, and there was a golden era in the '40s when we were so conscious of who we were as Australians.
~By Graeme Murphy ~
Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold.
~By Joseph Parry ~
Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
~By Jesse Owens ~
Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.
~By Jean Paul ~
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
~By Ludwig van Beethoven ~
Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.
~By Euripides ~
It is tact that is golden, not silence.
~By Samuel Butler ~
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
~By William Samuel Johnson ~
Well my thoughts on American swimming are that our prospects look favorable, but we may not have as strong a showing in the gold medal count as in previous Olympics. But I am not coaching.
~By Mark Spitz ~
Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing.
~By Tim Cahill ~
Here were these college kids beating the Soviets and going on to the Olympic Gold Medal. To me, that's the greatest upset of all time in any sport that I can think of.
~By Jim McKay ~
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
~By Euripides ~
Her godmother simply touched her with her wand, and, at the same moment, her clothes were turned into cloth of gold and silver, all decked with jewels.
~By Charles Perrault ~
Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.
~By Christopher Columbus ~
Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.
~By Susanna Moodie ~
Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan had tremendous influence on generations of American because, even if people disagreed with them, they admired them because they made very strong commitments to things they believed in.
~By Phil Crane ~
A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.
~By John Lothrop Motley ~
Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-fashioned, for of course I wanted to see all I could of the ways of the country.
~By Bram Stoker ~
We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making.
~By Yo-Yo Ma ~
Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.
~By Elizabeth I ~
We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart that only gold can cure.
~By Hernando Cortez ~
We must get into the picture business. This is a new industry and a gold mine. it looks like another telephone industry.
~By Joseph P. Kennedy ~
The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.
~By F. Scott Fitzgerald ~
Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?
~By Brigham Young ~
I think it's the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don't write very well.
~By Dean Koontz ~
McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.
~By Pat Buchanan ~
San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate.
~By Gavin Newsom ~
I have asked the village blacksmith to forge golden chains to tie our ankles together. I have gathered all the gay ribbons in the world to wind around and around and around and around and around and around again around our two waists.
~By Harry Crosby ~
If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.
~By Tom Stoppard ~
In a private room he showed me the first specimens of gold, that is he was not certain if it was gold or not, but he thought it might be; immediately I made the proof and found that it was gold.
~By John Sutter ~
It was just at the end of the golden era of BBC comedy, which was fantastic.
~By John Leeson ~
More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
~By Henry Miller ~
Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.
~By Brian Tracy ~
We all live in a televised goldfish bowl.
~By Kingman Brewster, Jr. ~
Don't kill the golden goose.
~By Malcolm Mclaren ~
Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
~By Thomas Dekker ~
Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.
~By Karl Marx ~
Gold's was the first bodybuilding gym made for bodybuilders.
~By Joe Gold ~
I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
~By Edward Koch ~
Accordingly, when the supply of gold runs short, the security behind the notes is diminished, the loaning of notes is restricted or suspended, and the panic follows.
~By John Buchanan Robinson ~
I made a gym, it's the best gym in Nicaragua, I have kids that this year July 6th through the 11th will be fighting and then will go on to the Central American Games and I'm sure at least one will win a gold medal.
~By Alexis Arguello ~
I have as much privacy as a goldfish in a bowl.
~By Princess Margaret ~
Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.
~By Edwin Hubbel Chapin ~
Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.
~By Martin Luther ~
I don't like to have to pan for gold when I read.
~By Jonathan Carroll ~
For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.
~By Martin Luther ~
Victor Young had been hired to write the score for the dances of The Ten Commandments but he became very ill. You were then hired to write the score. But at the same time you'd written The Man with the Golden Arm score.
~By Elmer Bernstein ~
Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
There was never a golden era of American radio as far as I can tell.
~By Michael Stipe ~
Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.
~By John Updike ~
The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California.
~By John Moody ~
They don't give you gold medals for beating somebody. They give you gold medals for beating everybody.
~By Michael Johnson ~
Where children are, there is the golden age.
~By Novalis ~
What is fame? an empty bubble; Gold? a transient, shining trouble.
~By James Grainger ~
It turned out in the long run that Lincoln's credit and the popular confidence that supported it were as valuable both to his creditors and himself as if the sums which stood over his signature had been gold coin in a solvent bank.
~By John George Nicolay ~
I like a man who can be a real friend, has a good sense of humor, a good pair of shoes and a healthy gold card.
~By Victoria Beckham ~
Although I may find the type of programming seen during the 2004 Super Bowl and the 2003 Golden Globe Awards disgusting and disturbing, we must always work hard to defend the cherished freedoms so clearly outlined in our Constitution, including a healthy and free press.
~By Mike Rogers ~
It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
~By Plato ~
There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.
~By Bernard de Mandeville ~
That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.
~By Samuel Goldwyn ~
You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.
~By Diana Ross ~
Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
~By Solon ~
I produced and directed a movie a couple years ago that won some awards that Samuel Goldwyn released called 'The Last Good Time'. I wrote, produced and directed it, but I wasn't in it.
~By Bob Balaban ~
Gold and silver are no doubt subject to fluctuations, from the discovery of new and more abundant mines; but such discoveries are rare, and their effects, though powerful, are limited to periods of comparatively short duration.
~By David Ricardo ~
The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land.
~By John Jakes ~
A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
The golden age is before us, not behind us.
~By William Shakespeare ~
There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.
~By Thomas Beecham ~
If we did go into a recession, something that's always possible for the U.S. or Europe, we could lower interest rates and expand the money supply without worrying about the price of gold.
~By Jeffrey Sachs ~
Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.
~By Max Beerbohm ~
It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.
~By Boris Yeltsin ~
It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.
~By Epicurus ~
It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same.
~By Dan O'Brien ~
As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient.
~By W. Averell Harriman ~
Television is a golden goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar. Anyway, more people like scrambled eggs than caviar.
~By Lee Loevinger ~
Even if I hadn't have been nominated for an Oscar, to have won the Golden Glove was just fantastic.
~By Brenda Blethyn ~
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.
~By Gary Gygax ~
A mask of gold hides all deformities.
~By Thomas Dekker ~
Party of Five won a Golden Globe, it was a well-written television series.
~By Neve Campbell ~
Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish.
~By Chevy Chase ~
While there used to be one or two Pops orchestras, now there are all kinds of European orchestras that suddenly look upon this as a golden wand that can enable them to make money recording this music.
~By Skitch Henderson ~
I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.
~By Helen Keller ~
I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps.
~By James Cash Penney ~
It seems that almost every time a valuable natural resource is discovered in the world-whether it be diamonds, rubber, gold, oil, whatever-often what results is a tragedy for the country in which they are found. Making matters worse, the resulting riches from these resources rarely benefit the people of the country from which they come.
~By Edward Zwick ~
My childhood is completely... when I look back, it was '50s in New York, upper-middle class, it was completely idyllic and golden and wonderful - sweet in every way.
~By Peter Jurasik ~
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
Bill Rehnquist makes Barry Goldwater look like a liberal.
~By John Dean ~
But probably this is helps to win, to win, to gold, more gold medals, and to win most my important medal, heart of people. This is most important for me.
~By Olga Korbut ~
You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now I know I've made the mistake in the past. But now I, now I know the difference from gold and brass.
~By Ben Harper ~
Winning Commonwealth gold was just totally unbelievable.
~By Michael East ~
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
~By Democritus ~
Do not hold everything as gold that shines like gold.
~By Alain de Lille ~
There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
~By Karen Black ~
One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.
~By Claude M. Bristol ~
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