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Gold Quotes

From the beginning of time, women have been obsessed with looking good and this desire to look glamorous has almost always led to a passion for ornaments. Out of all the metals and materials that go into the making of ornaments, gold is the most popular, mainly for its sheer luster, malleability and flexibility. It is a metal that commands a high price and an even higher respect across the world. It is like the symbol of wealth and well-being of a person. It also has a great cultural value in many countries. For example, in Egypt previously people of great religious were buried in graves decorated with or made of solid gold as for them it signifies eternal life.

Coins made of gold were used as currency in ancient times and ornaments made of the precious metals have been one of the favorite bartering options. The ancient Egyptians believed it to be the flesh of the sun god - Ra. Gold has a lot of cultural significance in several communities, especially among the Christians. For example, a ring made of gold signifies that a couple is married. The production of gold is also very important due to its ornamental and economic significance. The highest producer of gold in the world is China followed by Australia and Russia. Make a preplanned move and read on to discover famous ornaments and sayings on quotations.

Mahatma Gandhi

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

J. R. R. Tolkien

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

Sammy Hagar

When we were on the road, I found out that my greatest hits album went Gold. They freaked out. Things really came to a head when we started arguing about a Van Halen greatest hits package.

Adam Smith

Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.

Avril Lavigne

I decorated my house like a medieval gothic castle, European-style. Chandeliers and red velvet curtains. My bedroom is pink and black, my bathroom is totally Hello Kitty, I have a massive pink couch and a big antique gold cross.

Dustin Poirier

I'm chasing gold. And whatever fight can get me closer to being a world champion, those are the fights that I want.

Harriet Tubman

I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven.

John Mason Brown

As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time.

Ron Howard

Nina Gold is a fantastic casting director. She's doing the new 'Star Wars' movies, but she also does 'Game of Thrones' and many of the Working Title movies, and she did 'Rush.'

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J. R. R. Tolkien

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

Michael Caine

My closest friends are Roger Moore, who is an actor, Sean Connery, who is an actor, Terry O'Neill, who is a photographer, Johnny Gold, who was the boss of Tramp, and Leslie Bricusse, who is a composer.

Christopher Columbus

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

Tyler Perry

He who has the gold makes the rules.

Neil Young

I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the vocals on Landing on Water.

Kimberly Guilfoyle

Bella is my little dog. She's an imperial Shih Tzu. She's a little cotton ball with flecks of gold. She's super, super cute, and she eats like she's a Rottweiler.

Jeanie Buss

But I don't look forward to the day that Kobe Bryant's not in purple and gold.

Martin Luther

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.

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Alfred Lord Tennyson

Love is the only gold.

Laurence Sterne

Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current.

Richard Burton

I've made more millions than I can count. But you know, it's a faerie gold - the tax people take most of it, and the rest goes to people you need to stay alive, places to live, conveyances to get from here to there.

My favorite Bob Dylan record is the very first one where he sings one Bob Dylan song and the rest of them are his interpretations of the Dust Bowl-era folk songs, or even going back as far as the mass influx of people coming into the U.S. during the gold rush. His interpretations of those songs are incredible.

Elizabeth I

Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.

Roald Dahl

To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.

Woody Allen

I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.

Monica Bellucci

I love jewelry - gold and diamonds. I'm a woman.

The Indians on board said that thence to Cuba was a voyage in their canoes of a day and a half; these being small dug-outs without a sail. Such are their canoes. I departed thence for Cuba, for by the signs the Indians made of its greatness, and of its gold and pearls, I thought that it must be Cipango.

George Santayana

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

Bella Thorne

I'm really into tall boots. I just got some new ones from Michael Kors that have these little gold studs. I have Valentino ones that I really love. Real, real tall boots!

Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

I've become accustomed to playing the good guy - maybe a rough exterior, but a heart of gold in there somewhere.

Vasyl Lomachenko

While growing up, my dream and my goal was to win an Olympic gold medal. I did that, and both times, they were the proudest moments in my amateur career.

Kobe Bryant

I like playing for the purple and gold. This is where I want to finish up.

Charlie Sheen

I've spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold.

Adele

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.

Scottie Pippen

I take a lot of pride in my first '92 gold medal.

Sharon Stone

I can go completely berserk with the makeup, depending on the event. I'm currently in this very mod stage. I wear false lashes and color on my eyelids. I'm really liking shiny eyelids in copper, rose, gold, or silver.

Samuel Johnson

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

Praise Value Diamonds
Rita Mae Brown

Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough.

Stupidity
Halsey

I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.

Napolean Hill

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Scottie Pippen

I'd probably say the championships mean more to me, but the gold medal makes you a bit different. It's a special award.

Celine Dion

I have records in gold, in platinum, I have two Oscars, I have Grammys and so on.

Jeanie Buss

There's the gold standard, and then there's the purple-and-gold standard.

Paul Rudd

Awkwardness is such a gold mine for comedy.

D. H. Lawrence

Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

For like everyday, just kind of hanging out, I love flannels. Part of my closet, there's a whole section of flannels because I love them so much. Slouchy, oversized hats and fedoras. I just got these 2 amazing hats that I really love, blue and gold trim with woven material by D&Y. I love D&Y hats.

Jada Pinkett Smith

I like a lot of metal music. So that's really what I listen to a lot. Or I listen to a lot of kind of off the cuff, like I love artists like Santigold, or Gold Frapp. Yeah. Pelican. Yeah.

George Foreman

The Olympic Gold medal in 1968 was definitely the highest moment of my career. It was a dream come true. I was a 19-year-old boy, and it was just amazing to be standing on top of the podium and hearing the National Anthem in the background.

Dwyane Wade

Growing up, I always dreamed of winning an NBA championship, never a gold. A gold was something that never crossed my mind.

As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith.

If you look at the mythology of aliens, there's a lot about gold. It's about them coming for gold; whether that's a simplification or not. If you think of 'Chariot of the Gods,' there's this reoccurring theme of gold.

Margot Robbie

Where I'm from on the Gold Coast, we say that there are a lot of 'cashed-up Bogans,' you know, people with no class but a lot of money.

I believe in all of these Irish myths, like leprechauns. Not the pot of gold, not the Lucky Charms leprechauns. But maybe was there something in the traditional sense? I believe that this stuff came from somewhere other than people's imaginations.

People Luck
Khalil Gibran

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

Men Dreams
Jeannie Mai

Anything that's shiny, you can mix together. I love rhinestones with sequins, or baubles with fun gold metallics.

Love Togetherness
Muhammad Ali

To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, 'You're better than the Cassius of old.'

Plato

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

Jon Jones

I have tons of pictures of myself as a kid with my medals, and they were never gold medals.

Rupert Murdoch

ESPN is a very, very good operation, and it's a gold mine. It's an even bigger gold mine than Fox News.

Caitlyn Jenner

I'm just glad my gold medal's at home, because I'd hate to try to win another.

Caitlyn Jenner

'Esquire Magazine' just gave me 'Father of the Year'. I'll put it right up there with my gold medal. I survived; that's why they gave it to me.

Mark Twain

Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

Alexandra Daddario

My mom wears a lot of gold.

Venus Williams

Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.

Orlando Bloom

I have flown with British Airways since I was a very little child, so it feels quite special to have gone from family holidays flying around Europe to become a gold card holder and be spoiled enough to travel more than not in first class.

Kevin Hart

People don't want to hear about me having leather walls or gold toilets.

There are three things that can destroy a preacher, the glory, the gold, and the girls.

Hanukkah has very little accouterments attached to it ... Besides dreidels and gold, foil-wrapped coins, the menorah is the way to showcase the holiday.