Top 29 Quotes About Gold Mines
#1. With many readers, brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under ground.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#2. Broadway - the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
O. Henry
#3. A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#4. What opened up the American West was the fact that you owned the real estate. You owned the gold mines, the oil wells. The creation of these, back then, million dollar industries drove the railroads and eventually the airlines to provide this kind of transportation.
Peter Diamandis
#5. Any desert land that will grow big sage will produce more fortunes thatn most gold mines -- if you can only get the water.
Peter B. Kyne
#6. and the inhabitants of Hispaniola, and other parts of the West Indies, when found out by Columbus, which abounded with gold mines, declared that they found by experience that the vein of gold is a living tree, (and
John Gill
#7. I'm the new age miner,
going to work at the company's
gold mines, where they charge me
for the pick axe
Phil Volatile
#8. You can lead mankind into the gold mines of the mind and into the diamond fields of the soul, and the secret lies in the words you speak.
Christian D. Larson
#9. The communications industry has been tremendously successful, but we need to build the railroads and the oil wells and the gold mines of space.
Peter Diamandis
#10. I was in constant demand, in my professional life and my personal life.
Hedy Lamarr
#11. As in digging for precious metals in the mines, much earthy rubbish has first to be troublesomely handled and thrown out; so, in digging in one's soul for the fine gold of genius, much dullness and common-place is first brought to light.
Herman Melville
#12. Twilight is to Vampires what My Little Pony is to Kentucky Derby Winning Horses.
Dennis Sharpe
#13. They were running for their lives, and when you ran for your life you had to do things, brutal things.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#14. But if Smith was right, and gold and silver became money through the natural workings of the market completely independently of governments, then wouldn't the obvious thing be to just grab control of the gold and silver mines?
David Graeber
#15. As the prosperity of the nation and the height of wage rates depend on a continual increase in the capital invested in its plants, mines and farms, it is one of the foremost tasks of good government to remove all obstacles that hinder the accumulation and investment of new capital.
Ludwig Von Mises
#16. The United States is the first nation to regularly conduct strikes using remotely piloted aircraft in an armed conflict. Other nations also possess this technology. Many more nations are seeking it, and more will succeed in acquiring it.
John O. Brennan
#17. Gold and silver are no doubt subject to fluctuations, from the discovery of new and more abundant mines; but such discoveries are rare, and their effects, though powerful, are limited to periods of comparatively short duration.
David Ricardo
#18. The City is a machine miraculously organised for extracting gold from the seas, airs, clouds, from barren lands, holds of ships, mines, plantations, cottage hearth-stones, trees and rocks; and he, wretchedly waiting in the exterior halls, could not even get his finger on one tiny, tiny lever.
Christina Stead
#19. I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold or all the riches that the East doth hold.
Anne Bradstreet
#20. Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them.
David Ricardo
#21. Hollywood was always heartbreak town, though most of the world fancied it to be Shangri-La, King Solomon's mines, and Fort Knox rolled into one big ball of 24-karat gold.
Hedda Hopper
#22. Truth, like gold, is not less so for being newly brought out of the mine.
John Locke
#23. A lot of times, good improv is when both people, or however many people are in the scene, really have no idea what the next thing you're going to say is.
John C. Reilly
#24. The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the turning of Africa into a warren for the commercial hunting of black-skins, signalised the rosy dawn of the era of capitalist production.
Karl Marx
#27. We should have springs and rivers, not mines and treasure tunnels. Gold is an unwelcome visitor. It works against the acclimation of people to the land.
Tim Westover
#28. I often think that the last holiday is the greatest, but then some really stand out in my mind. One of the best was one my wife and I had in the Lake District. We stayed in a B&B and walked around the countryside for two weeks.
Jay Parini
#29. In the terrible years of the Yezhov terror I spent seventeen months waiting in line outside the prison in Leningrad. One day somebody in the crowd identified me ... and asked me in a whisper ... "Can you describe this?" And I said: "I can."
Anna Akhmatova
