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.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.

J.R.R. Tolkien

Tags: strength poetry frost glitter gold lost roots strong wander wither

Go to quote

---

We will answer their demand for a gold standard by saying to them: "You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold

William Jennings Bryan

Tags: gold

Go to quote

---

Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal.

Charles Dickens

Tags: money gold greed

Go to quote

---

Gold is the corpse of value...

Neal Stephenson

Tags: money gold value

Go to quote

---

The wild mustard in Southern California is like that spoken of in the New Testament. . . . Its gold is as distinct a value to the eye as the nugget gold is in the pocket.

Helen Hunt Jackson

Tags: gold california

Go to quote

---

If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.

Rebecca Solnit

Tags: gold water values 124

Go to quote

---

The real story of the Fleece: there were these two children of Zeus, Cadmus and Europa, okay? They were about to get offered up as human sacrifices, when they prayed to Zeus to save them. So Zeus sent this magical flying ram with golden wool, which picked them up in Greece and carried them all the way to Colchis in Asia Minor. Well, actually it carried Cadmus. Europa fell off and died along the way, but that's not important."
"It was probably important to her.

Rick Riordan

Tags: humor gold annabeth-chase percy-jackson

Go to quote

---

If gold rusts, what then can iron do?

Geoffrey Chaucer

Tags: inspirational gold flaws fallibility imperfection canterbury-tales iron rust

Go to quote

---

Apollinaire said a poet should be 'of his time.' I say objects of the Digital Age belong in newspapers, not literature. When I read a novel, I don’t want credit cards; I want cash in ducats and gold doubloons.

Roman Payne

Tags: money writing gold technology literature newspapers modern-life modernity cash writing-style apollinaire credit-cards digital-age literary-style

Go to quote

---

There were three things sought by invaders who crossed
oceans to discover America. Those were gold, gospel, glory.
There are four things sought by aliens who crossed heavens
to discover planet earth. Those are gold, gospel, glory, gene.

Toba Beta

Tags: life truth future gold history motivation discovery glory ocean gene gospel genetics motive

Go to quote

---

Page 1 of 7.
next last »

---

---