Best gold & sand Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Kisses are but like sands of gold and silver, found upon the ground which are not worth much themselves but as they promise a mine near too be dig'd.”

Found Mines Promise Kissing Gold Sand Silver Gold And Silver

Author:Theresa Villiers

“There lived a singer in France of old By the tideless dolorous midland sea. In a land of sand and rain and gold There shone one woman, and none but she.”

Love Heart Sea Land Rain Gold Singers France Sand One Woman Heart Love

Author:Algernon Charles Swinburne

“The magic of property turns sand to gold.”

Turns Magic Gold Property Sand

Book:Travels during the years 1787, 1788, and 1789: undertaken more particularly with a view of ascertaining the cultivation, wealth, resources, and national prosperity of the kingdom of France

Source: Travels during the years 1787, 1788, and 1789: undertaken more particularly with a view of ascertaining the cultivation, wealth, resources, and national prosperity of the kingdom of France

“It is hard to know what other way men can come to truth, to lay hold of it, if they do not dig and search for it as for gold and hid treasure; but he that does so, must have much earth and rubbish, before he gets the pure metal; sand, and pebbles, and dross usually lie blended with it, but the gold is nevertheless gold, and will enrich the man that employs his pains to seek and separate it.”

Ifs Knows Men Way Doe Hard Earth Pain Lying He Man Pure Gold Lays Treasure Sand Metals Nevertheless Rubbish Pebbles Dross

Book:The Works of John Locke

Source: The Works of John Locke

“The lure of the past came up to grab me. To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint, through the sand was romantic. The carefulness of lifting pots and objects from the soil filled me with a longing to be an archaeologist myself.”

Past Objects Gold Filled Longing Soil Sand Pot Lifting Appearing Lure Daggers Archaeologists Carefulness

Book:Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

Source: Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

“The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.”

Action Past Records Rivers Gold Instruments Practicals Streams Sand Grain Knowledge Of The Past Truth Revealed

Book:Lectures on Modern History: Great Event

Source: Lectures on Modern History: Great Event

“Bastian had climbed a dune of purplish-red sand and all around him he saw nothing but hill after hill of every imaginable color. Each hill revealed a shade or tint that occured in no other. The nearest was cobalt blue, another was saffron yellow, then came crimson red, then indigo, apple green, sky blue, orange, peach, mauve, turquoise blue, lilac, moss green, ruby red, burnt umber, Indian yellow, vermillion, lapis lazuli, and so on from horizon to horizon. And between the hill, separating color from color, flowed streams of gold and silver sand.”

Saws Sky Color Red Gold Blue Green Hills Indian Streams Apples Sand Silver Horizon Shade Yellow Orange Moss Separating Peaches Crimson Rubies Gold And Silver Lilac Indigo Turquoise Saffron Cobalt

Author:Michael Ende

“These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw nothing but the sand; yet there were brighter moments when she felt nothing but joy, saw nothing but the gold.”

Moments Joy Felt Saws Gold Sand Grain Brighter Trifling

Book:ANNA KARENINA

Source: ANNA KARENINA

“I've always been an ironic dreamer, unfaithful to my inner promises. Like a complete outsider, a casual observer of whom I thought I was, I've always enjoyed watching my daydreams go down in defeat. I was never convinced of what I believed in. I filled my hands with sand, called it gold, and opened them up to let it slide through. Words were my only truth. When the right words were said, all was done; the rest was the sand that had always been.”

Said Done Hands Promise Gold Filled Defeat Convinced Enjoyed Sand Ironic Dreamer Outsiders Observers Slides Casual Daydreaming Unfaithful Right Words Book Of Disquiet

Book:The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet

“Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old, And life's latest sands are its sands of gold!”

Inspirational Years Age Grows Rich Gold Aging Seeds Old Age Sand Reap

Book:Friar Anselmo: And Other Poems

Source: Friar Anselmo: And Other Poems

“After all these years, it's still embarrassing for me to play on the American golf tour. Like the time I asked my caddie for a sand wedge and he came back ten minutes later with a ham on rye.”

“Finer than any sand are dusts of gold that gleam, Vague starpoints, in the mystic iris of their eyes.”

Eye Cat Gold Dust Sand Vague Mystic Gleam Irises

Book:The Flowers of Evil and Paris Spleen: Poems

Source: The Flowers of Evil and Paris Spleen: Poems

“She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.”

Ifs Water Rich Sea Rocks Mines Pure Gold Twenties Sand Pearls Jewels Jewelry Nectar

Book:The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

“When does gold ore become gold? When it is put through a process of fire. So the human being during the training becomes as pure as gold through suffering. It is the burning away of the dross. Suffering has a great redeeming quality. As a drop of water failing on the desert sand is sucked up immediately, so we must become nothing and nowhere ... we must disappear.”

“Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a few minute particles of gold ore.”

Life Minutes Gold Self Discovery Sand Finding Yourself Discovering True Self Know Yourself Particles Digging Know Thyself Self Knowing Old Self Discovering Yourself Discovering Self Discovery In Life Discovering Your True Self

Author:Dorothy Bryant

“We need only take our heads out of the sand to see clearly that interventionism not only has failed to provide the promised something-for-nothing, but has led to all sorts of undesirable consequences. Indeed, many are just beginning to realize that we are moving towards disaster even though we have been on a wrong heading for decades.”

Needs Has Beens Moving Realizing Consequence Gold Decades Disaster Sand Headings Undesirable Interventionism

Author:Leonard Read

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