The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land. — John Jakes
It’s supply and demand. If gold is discovered, then it gets harder to make money mining gold because everyone’s competing with you. — Jim Simons
The one who gets up early will find gold. —
Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a few minute particles of gold ore. — Dorothy Bryant
Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold. — Joseph Campbell
More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth. — Napoleon Hill
The mine owners did not find the gold, they did not mine the gold, they did not mill the gold, but by some weird alchemy all the gold belonged to them! — Bill Haywood
The movie business has always been like the wild-catting oil business. Everyone wants a gusher. — Michael Eisner
Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil. — J. Paul Getty
We soon found that the white men were growing rich very fast, and were greedy. — Chief Joseph
The shortest route to making money in the market is to buy gold stocks when nobody likes it. The only problem is that good stocks seldom have friends. — Thomas Phelps
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. — Leo Tolstoy
A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold. — John Lothrop Motley
Gold is money. Everything else is credit. — J. P. Morgan
Gold Dust Quotes
Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust. — Jesse Owens
The time has come to turn your heart into a temple of fire. Your essence is gold hidden in dust. To reveal its splendor you need to burn in the fire of love. — Rumi
Finer than any sand are dusts of gold that gleam, Vague starpoints, in the mystic iris of their eyes. — Charles Baudelaire
Rushing never saved the time that planning did.
We need a coat with two pockets. In one pocket there is dust, and in the other pocket there is gold. We need a coat with two pockets to remind us who we are. — Parker J. Palmer
Curling is not a sport. I called my grandmother and told her she could win a gold medal because they have dusting in the Olympics now. — Charles Barkley
She wanted to return to her dream. Perhaps it was still somewhere there behind her closed eyelids. Perhaps a little of its happiness still clung like gold dust to her lashes. Don't dreams in fairy tales sometimes leave a token behind? — Cornelia Funke
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Rise, heart; thy Lord is risen. Sing His praise Without delays, Who takes thee by the hand, that thou likewise With Him mayst rise: That, as His death calcined thee to dust, His life may make thee gold, and, much more, just. — George Herbert
Although gold dust is precious, when it gets in your eyes it obstructs your vision. — HsiTang
It would not be more unreasonable to transplant a favorite flower out of black earth into gold dust than it is for a person to let money-getting harden his heart into contempt, or into impatience, of the little attentions, the merriments and the caresses of domestic life. — William Mountford
Wild honey smells of freedom The dust - of sunlight The mouth of a young girl, like a violet But gold - smells of nothing. — Anna Akhmatova
Gold And Diamonds Quotes
The beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace is more precious than diamonds or silver or gold. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Rastafari means to live in nature, to see the Creator in the wind, sea and storm. Other religions pointed to the sky, and while we were looking in the sky, they dug up all the gold and diamonds and went away with them — Jimmy Cliff
Friendship is a precious gift that can't be bought or sold. It's value is greater than mountains made of gold. If you shall ask God for a gift be thankful if he sends not diamonds pearls or riches but the love and trust of friends. It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. — Marlene Dietrich
You can't rush something you want to last forever.
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. — Samuel Johnson
Life is a journey. Perhaps we may be more or less pointed towards a general direction, but whether we pave that road with diamonds and gold or just plain dirt and cement is up to us. — Alex Tan
Love is priceless. And all I really want is a good night kiss. So if tears were diamonds, more valuable gold, then a fortune in the corners of my eyes I would hold. — Drew Chadwick
Anyone can find the dirt in someone. Be the on to find the gold.
No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday. — Mae West
Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone. — Joseph Joubert
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise. — Samuel Johnson
I love jewelry - gold and diamonds. I'm a woman. — Monica Bellucci
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. — Jeff Bezos
The Internet is like a gold-rush; the only people making money are those who sell the pans. — Will Hobbs
All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost.
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. — Neil Young
During the Gold Rush, most would-be miners lost money, but people who sold them picks, shovels, tents and blue-jeans (Levi Strauss) made a nice profit. — Peter Lynch
It's a gold rush ad we're selling the shovels. — Josh Williams
Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities. — Jeff Bezos
Luck was something you either earned or invented through strength of character. You had to come by it honestly; you could not trick or bluff your way into it. — Patrick deWitt
Adventure is something you seek for pleasure, or even for profit, like a gold rush or invading a country;...but experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you. — Katherine Anne Porter
The Gold Rush and the Pony Express made Sacramento a substantial place in terms of enterprise. — Wayne Thiebaud
I really wanted to write an adventure story, a murder-mystery that was set during the gold-rush years in New Zealand. — Eleanor Catton
Nirvana's success drew attention to a marketing demographic previously ignored by the mainstream, and inadvertently started a gold rush with advertising executives, product manufacturers, merchandise distributors, fashion coordinators, and rock imitators, the latter of whom have yet to equal the sincerity, power, and wit of Nirvana. — Kim Thayil
Prayer is always in danger of degenerating into a glorified gold rush. How to get things from God occupies most [books]. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush. — James D. Watson
If you view life as a gold rush, you're going to end up worshiping a golden calf. — Cornel West
So what'll happen is there'll be some very good cinema experiences are going to see 3D where you have to pay more. And there'll be some bad experiences of going to see movies in 3D. And I just hope that this kind of gold rush mentality doesn't kill what could actually be something that really, really benefits the industry. — Neal H. Moritz
There's no doubt in my mind that we'll have a mania in gold. And because the gold and especially silver markets are so tiny, the rush into them will be like trying to push the contents of Hoover Dam through a garden hose. Our positions will go absolutely ballistic. — Doug Casey
If you think of [the Web] 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. — Jeff Bezos
Malibu history is interesting to me. My mom's family was one of the early families in California, so there's history going back to the 1840s or '50s. They came over in the Gold Rush, actually. I have all this guilt about raising my daughter in the East. Coco's very anti-California. It's her way of rebelling. — Kim Gordon
I think unfortunately in this gold rush mentality that we've been in for the last years there has been not enough focus on business model quality. So when push comes to shove, there actually aren't that many great businesses that can go public. Because I think if you're going to thrive as a public company, it presupposes that you make more money than you spend. — Chamath Palihapitiya
There's such a deep, conservative feeling in 'The way Back.' You go, 'gosh, we've gotten narrow.' So at the moment I think there's a kind of tension, and it's gold rush fever. — Peter Weir
I think that even knocking on the door allows you to understand a little bit of that kind of stuff. Mainly what Silicon Valley has taught me, in that respect, is the business side of it, with that gold rush element as opposed to creating software. — Thomas Middleditch
I always see colors when I listen to music. It's difficult to explain, but when I hear the music I think about gold, blood rushing. — Charli XCX
It is a great rush to come up with a joke that gets a good response from the audience. It's gold! — Kevin Nealon
California is a tragic country — like Palestine, like every Promised Land. Its short history is a fever-chart of migrations — the land rush, the gold rush, the oil rush, the movie rush, the Okie fruit-picking rush, the wartime rush to the aircraft factories — followed, in each instance, by counter-migrations of the disappointed and unsuccessful, moving sorrowfully homeward. — Christopher Isherwood
Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction but that is to go to the very opposite extreme to where it lies. They go prospecting farther and farther away from the true lead, and are most unfortunate when they think themselves most successful. — Henry David Thoreau
In 1847, two years before the greedy rush for gold began in California, the Mormons quietly began irrigating Utah's Salt Lake Valley. In a sense, they were the first American irrigators of any significance. And their knowledge about the art of applying water to land has spread throughout the world. — Stuart Campbell
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