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My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.
Some take their gold in minted mold, and some in harps thereafter, but give me mine in bubbles fine and keep the change in laughter.
He's a gift from heaven, he is truly a gift from heaven. Whatever he touches turns to gold.
It takes an awful lot of time for me to write anything. I have endless drafts, one after another; and I try out 50, 75, or a hundred variations on a single line sometimes. I work on the process of refining low-grade ore. I get maybe a couple of nu ggets of gold out of 50 tons of dirt. It is tough for me. No, I am not inspired.
O beautiful for spacious skies, . . . O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife, Who more than self their country loved, And mercy more than life! America! America! May God thy gold refine, Til all success be nobleness And every gain divine!
With the rose the butterfly's deep in love,_x000D__x000D_A thousand times hovering round;_x000D__x000D_But round himself, all tender like gold,_x000D__x000D_The sun's sweet ray is hovering found.
A million butterflies rose up from South America, All together, and flew in a gold storm toward Spain.
Virtue and learning, like gold, have their intrinsic value: but if they are not polished, they certainly lose a great deal of their luster: and even polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.
We were told that they wished merely to pass through our country. . . to seek for gold in the far west . . . Yet before the ashes of the council are cold, the Great Father is building his forts among us. . . . His presence here is . . . an insult to the spirits of our ancestors. Are we then to give up their sacred graves to be allowed for corn?
Life, sometimes so wearying is worth its weight in gold the experience of traveling lends a wisdom that is old.
It's an interesting thing in this country. I haven't won a gold medal, yet Australians still take me into their houses and hearts, they know my name and they care. I think Aussies like the little Aussie battler and the person who will stand up for their rights and I've never been short of a word, especially with officialdom.
Stay close by the door, if you desire all beauty_x000D__x000D_And leave aside sleep, if you wish to arrive_x000D__x000D_And make of the spirit your first place of account_x000D__x000D_To the beloved, whose lights shine as from gold_x000D__x000D_All of them worship out of fear of the fire �_x000D__x000D_And consider deliverance abundant good fortune -_x000D__x000D_Or, so they may dwell in the gardens, and reach_x000D__x000D_To the meadows of paradise, and there drink from its rivers_x000D__x000D_Of gardens or fire I have no opinion_x000D__x000D_I seek no exchange for my dearest love
Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.
Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.
Hey Mark Henry, where are your gold medals? We all know that if Mark Henry won a gold medal he'd just take it and have it bronzed.
You don't BOO an Olympic Gold Medalist!
But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate, when we lock up our lives for wealth, the gold key comes too late.
As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.
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.
Now the wren has gone to roost and the sky is turnin' gold Turnin' from the past, at last and all I've left behind.
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