#gold

After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it. ↗

— Carl Perkins

#came #cotton #cotton fields #day #days

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

#arbitrary #bestowed #capital #commodities #dependent

I have two Golden Boot awards at home. It would be nice to win another, but I wouldn't mind it if I didn't. ↗

— Cristiano Ronaldo

#awards #be nice #boot #golden #home

We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#coming #golden #golden age #instrument #making

As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic career developed only by lucky circumstances. ↗

— Peter Snell

#career #circumstances #developed #gold #gold medal

I've learned that winning isn't everything, and it's more about the journey. But at the end of the day, I just want to stand on the podium with the gold medal. ↗

— Hope Solo

#day #end #end of the day #everything #gold

It took putting one foot in front of the other every single day to get through it to the point where I made it back on the team and won a gold medal in 2008. ↗

— Hope Solo

#day #every #every single day #foot #front

London 2012 is all about winning a medal. Not just any medal, the gold medal. ↗

— Hope Solo

#any #gold #gold medal #just #london

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces. ↗

— Solon

#learning #people #rich #rich people #sheep

I have as much privacy as a goldfish in a bowl. ↗

— Princess Margaret

#goldfish #i #much #privacy