Quotes of: Gold-medal Keyword

Jon Osterman: Will you smile? If I admit I was wrong? Laurie Juspeczyk: About what? Jon Osterman: Miracles. Events with astronomical odds of occurring, like oxygen turning into gold. I've longed to witness such an event, and yet I neglect that in hum...

Watchmen

Princess Isabelle: The king desires peace. William Wallace: Longshanks desires peace? Princess Isabelle: He declares it to me, I swear it. He proposes that you withdraw your attack. In return he grants you title, estates, and this chest of gold which...

Braveheart

At the age of nine, I could cross the length of Glasgow on a succession of buses, wearing regulation garter-topped stockings and compulsory cap and - if I'd done well enough to earn the honour in last week's test - with a First World War medal on a s...

Ronald Frame

Blue-Eyed One, never again shall you cover your shoulders. I declare your scars to be medals of gallantry great than any I could bestow, and it is my will that all the Black Land look upon them, and learn the nature of courage.

Mara, Daughter of the Nile

Liberty medals...Are they trying to bribe me with coloured ribbons? I wouldn't kill a man for one of those things. Or go and be killed. Any shooting I do is to save my own life, and not for a ribbon and a hunk of bronze. [says Mäkelä]

The Unknown Soldier

Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body ...

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Once 'Walk Two Moons' received the Newbery Medal, I decided to write full-time. Partly because there seemed to be an audience out there who wanted to read what I wanted to write, and partly because I could now support myself financially through writi...

Sharon Creech

One minute you're a developing athlete trying to get to the top, then the next minute you do well and win a medal somewhere, and then it's all foisted on you. You never know when it's going to happen. You don't think about the media side of things wh...

Jessica Ennis

In the military I could exercise the power of being automatically respected because of the medals on my chest, not because I had done anything right at the moment to earn that respect. This is pretty nice. It's also a psychological trap that can stop...

Karl Marlantes

It's hard to think it's important to try out as cheerleader when you're starring on Broadway. But you do kind of miss the things that I now see my children doing. I'm just happy they are not actors. The Valentine's Day dance is really important. Pitc...

Bonnie Bedelia

This morning, light lapped the water as if God had spilt a goblet of molten gold upon a ground of darkest velvet.

Caleb's Crossing

A hot lust for glory, gems, gold or mates, Leads reckless young drakes to the blackest of fates.

Dragon Champion

They’d blame a castoff just for breathing. You could be good as gold and they’d still blame you.

The Drowned Cities

Even if false gold makes a man happy: At the mint it will be identified.

The Dermis Probe

Gold is cold, and men who possess much of it are infected with its chill.

The Dying God & Other Stories

The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.

The Ethics of Confucius

Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity.

The First Circle

I thought dwarfs gold," said Angua. "They just say that to get it into bed.

Feet of Clay

It’s mind-blowing and delicious and better than finding a pot of gold, a unicorn, and a leprechaun who shits diamonds at the end of a rainbow.

Futures and Frosting

...often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience.

Fields Of Gold

What you fear most will determine whether you merely save for the future or give for the future.

Fields Of Gold