Quotes About The California Gold Rush

#1. Unfortunately ... I missed out on the California Gold Rush a century before ... I'll be dammed if I miss out on this one.

Timothy Pina

#2. Most of the fiction on the California Gold Rush makes it sound like one grand, boyish adventure. However, when you read the real history, you realize that it wasn't that way at all.

Laurence Yep

#3. Do we make our decisions? Or do they make us?" ~The Bern Seer~

Hugh Howey

#4. Anything less than your best dishonors God

Francine Rivers

#5. I think it would be great if there were no age limit.

Paula Abdul

#6. There's an argument for being stubbornly unrealistic about your dreams. Otherwise they're not dreams - they're just ideas you had once and then left behind.

Mary Forsberg Weiland

#7. Today, Democrats not only have the White House; they have the Senate too. So we have to be realistic about what we can and cannot achieve, while at the same recognizing that realism should never be confused with capitulation.

Mitch McConnell

#8. The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land.

John Jakes

#9. The fact that California was the most cosmopolitan state in the union, as a result of the gold rush, simply made white voters more susceptible to racist and xenophobic arguments.

H.W. Brands

#10. 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

#11. You ever wonder when god's coming back with a lot of barbecue sauce?

Chuck Palahniuk

#12. Nothing has changed the nature of man so much as the loss of silence,

Max Picard

#13. I think what I love about the documentary process is that you bring yourself to the documentary. And hopefully that makes you ask good questions, and hopefully that makes you reveal a little bit about yourself as well.

Soledad O'Brien

#14. We consciously decide whether to consider people; we fall in love despite ourselves; we entirely fail to fall in love with people who fall in love with us. It is a mightily complicated business.

Matt Ridley

#15. I have been wrong and Simon Magus has been right.

Toni Pike

#16. Every settlement with two shacks and a saloon gave itself a name: Helltown, Fair Play, Grizzly Flats, Piety Hill, Whiskey Flat, You Bet, Nary Red, Lousy Ravine, Petticoat Slide.

Donald Dale Jackson

#17. ...Hey Biatch... listen... if not it comes with it's own consequences.

Deyth Banger

#18. The body is soft, beautiful, vulnerable. It's easy to threaten it. It's easy to harm it. It takes next to nothing to cause pain, to draw blood, to break bones. Takes next to nothing to blast a body to bits. It's much harder to protect it, she says, and much more important.

David Almond

#19. The world wasn't going to go away. Ever.

Elizabeth Lowell

#20. I got a text. It was Will, on Air Force One, about to take off back to Washington: I should've kissed you. That's on me.

Mindy Kaling

#21. We need radical thinking, creative ideas, and imagination.

Mairead Corrigan

#22. 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