Quotes About Gold Prospecting

#1. I was surprised at how cosmopolitan the Gold Rush was: prospectors were of all races, genders, and countries. I was equally surprised at how fast gold prospecting became big business.

Laurence Yep

#2. 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

#3. SpaceX does seem to have had a run of bad luck, with its first three launches all failing.

Henry Spencer

#4. This plucky NASA telescope is able to find planets en masse. If you compare planet hunting to prospecting for gold, then Kepler is equivalent to trading in your trusty pan for a diesel-powered sluice box.

Seth Shostak

#5. The soul unto itself
Is an imperial friend,
Or the most agonizing spy
An enemy could send.
Secure against its own,
No treason it can fear;
Itself its sovereign, of itself
The soul should stand in awe.

Emily Dickinson

#6. Some Englishman once said marriage is a long dull meak with pudding served first

Julian Barnes

#7. Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.

Henry Ward Beecher

#8. This is what is ultimate in our human knowledge of God, to know that we do not know.

Anthony De Mello

#9. I start any work the same way. I start a rehearsal with silence.

Robert Wilson

#10. One cannot help asking sadly, why is love of gold more potent than love of souls? The number of men mining and prospecting for gold in Shantung is more than double the number of men representing Southern Baptists! What a lesson for Southern Baptists to ponder!

Lottie Moon

#11. I'm sure you could distract me with something better than hand holding, sugar." He winked, then winced and sucked in a breath. "Holy f-f-f-f-fire truck. I think you just stitched my kidney.

Eden Summers

#12. The art of being officially old seems to lie in cooperative submission.

Anne Truitt

#13. These past two days, I've seen a fire in your eyes that I never have before. Granted, it's mostly anger and frustration, but it's still emotion.

Rebecca Donovan

#14. I realize the answer to who I am lies in that handful of poisonous fruit.

Suzanne Collins

#15. If I wait to be perfect before I love myself I will always be unsatisfied and ungrateful if I wait until all the flaws, chips, and cracks disappear I will be the cup that stands on the shelf and is never used

Joyce Rupp