Golden Quotes - page 2

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion. (Bertrand Russell)
What were all the world's alarms To mighty Paris when he found Sleep upon a golden bed That first dawn in Helen's arms. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Does the Eagle know what is in the pit Or wilt thou go ask the Mole Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod, Or Love in a golden bowl. View quote
William Blake
He loves to sit and hear me sing, Then, laughing, sports and plays with me Then stretches out my golden wing, And mocks my loss of liberty. View quote
William Blake
This child is not mine as the first was I cannot sing it to rest I cannot lift it up fatherly, And bless it upon my breast. Yet it lies in my little one's cradle, And sits in my little one's chair, And the light of the heaven she 's gone to Transfigures its golden hair. View quote
James Russell Lowell
I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance. View quote
Arthur Rimbaud
Make it a point to do something every day that you dont want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. View quote
Mark Twain
Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail. View quote
Martin Luther
The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone. View quote
Orison Swett Marden
In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins. View quote
Elizabeth Goudge
I like autumn. The drama of it; the golden lion roaring through the back door of the year, shaking its mane of leaves. A dangerous time; of violent rages and deceptive calm, of fireworks in the pockets and conkers in the fist. (Joanne Harris)
Even if I hadn't have been nominated for an Oscar, to have won the Golden Glove was just fantastic. View quote
Brenda Blethyn
While there used to be one or two Pops orchestras, now there are all kinds of European orchestras that suddenly look upon this as a golden wand that can enable them to make money recording this music. View quote
Skitch Henderson
There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through the Sixties, we had a lot of great innovators, all creating things which will last the world for a long, long time. View quote
Sonny Rollins
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. If we want the Arms Act to be repealed, if we want to learn the use of arms, here is a golden opportunity. If the middle classes render voluntary help to Government in the hour of its trial, distrust will disappear, and the ban on possessing arms will be withdrawn. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
My first rule – the golden rule – ensures that over the economic cycle the Government will borrow only to invest, and that current spending will be met from taxation. View quote
Gordon Brown
... no such individual would find the Golden Rule surprising in any way because at its base lies the foundation of most human interactions and exchanges and it can be found in countless texts throughout recorded history and from around the world--a testimony to its universality. View quote
Michael Shermer
This, in fact, is the power of the imagination, which, combining the memory of gold with that of the mountain, can compose the idea of a golden mountain. View quote
Umberto Eco
It was a still afternoon--the golden light was lingering languidly among the upper boughs, only glancing down here and there on the purple pathway and its edge of faintly sprinkled moss an afternoon in which destiny disguises her cold awful face behind a hazy radiant veil, encloses us in warm downy wings, and poisons us with violet-scented breath. View quote
George Eliot
Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces. View quote
Solon
The young nobles, of whom there were many, were volunteers, who had paid their own expenses in expectation of a golden harvest, and they chafed in impatience and disgust. The religious element in the colony-unlike the former Huguenot emigration to Brazil--was evidently subordinate. The adventurers thought more of their fortunes than of their faith. (Francis Parkman)
From the windows of my office in Boston ... I can see the Golden Stairs from Boston Harbor where all eight of my great-grandparents set foot on this great land for the first time. That immigrant spirit of limitless possibility animates America even today. View quote
Ted Kennedy
Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks. View quote
John Donne
The presentation of the Golden Badge of the Movement is the highest honor the Third Reich has to offer. View quote
Hjalmar Schacht
The temple of the sylvan goddess, indeed, has vanished, and the King of the Wood no longer stands sentinel over the Golden Bough. View quote
James Frazer