Gold Quotes

It's a story of little girls who are pressed into working in sweat shops in games, who spend all day doing repetitive grinding tasks like making shirts, which are then converted into gold and sold on eBay.

Cory Doctorow

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I ordered gold in the meantime to be showered down without ceasing among the happy multitude.

Adelbert von Chamisso

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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.

John George Nicolay

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

Khalil Gibran

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I wear myself out and struggle with the sun. And what a sun here! It would be necessary to paint here with gold and gemstones. It is wonderful.

Claude Monet

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I inherited my love of gold jewellery from my grandmother.

Aerin Lauder

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People are fascinating. They're so unique and I think what's more fascinating is the reason behind the physical characteristic, the enigma, that's where the gold dust is.

Andrea Riseborough

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Gold has an almost atavistic lure. People feel it has a panacea effect.

Howard Blum

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When I did win the Tour, I felt I was feted more in the U.K. for being an Olympic gold medallist... Then I come back to Europe to race, and they're not interested in the Olympic gold; it's about being the winner of the Tour de France - here he is.

Bradley Wiggins

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People would rather have art or gold instead of paper money.

Eli Broad

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The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of '49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific.

John Moody

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London 2012 is all about winning a medal. Not just any medal, the gold medal.

Hope Solo

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The way some papers write about me, you'd think I was some kind of gold digger. The truth is, I've always earned my own money. Before I became a model in Europe, I even worked in a bakery store - for $1.50 an hour. It's a big jump from a bakery store to driving a Mercedes in California, but I'm the same person inside.

Brigitte Nielsen

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I look up to Rihanna and Rita Ora. They obviously wear a lot of gold jewelry and have this urban feel to them.

Becky G

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Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.

John Keats

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My mother kept all my awards on the sideboard of her front room, and she polished them. She polished everything religiously. And it doesn't take long for the very thin layer of gold to disappear and the base metal underneath to show through.

Glenda Jackson

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A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

Aristotle

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For some reason, we stopped getting gold stars at some age. It's time to bring them back.

Ze Frank

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Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else's religion, but he'll accept his gold.

Robert Kiyosaki

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Someone named Gold has never won gold, I'm told.

Gracie Gold

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You don't just go and pick up a gold medal anymore.

Anne Donovan

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I work with gold that holds history, diamonds that see the future, and rubies that long for love.

Waris Ahluwalia

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The sacred books of all the world are worthless dross and common stones compared with Shakespeare's glittering gold and gleaming gems.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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I live to hail that season by gifted one foretold, when men shall live by reason, and not alone by gold.

George Linnaeus Banks

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