Silver Quotations

To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed.

The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.

Our happiness is certainly mixed in with the tragedies of life. You have to find the lemonade. You have to find the silver lining in the middle of everything that happens in life.

A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.

The Dove, on silver pinions, winged her peaceful way.

George W. Bush was a silver spoon dolt with no record to speak of other than bankruptcy and selling tropical plants, and we let him sail into the White House, but Barack talks about religious fundamentalism and guns being prevalent in poor areas, and we roast him for weeks?

My own novel, 'The Silver Bough,' about the inhabitants of a remote town at risk of being overwhelmed by Scotland's mythological past, was once criticised by a disgruntled fan as 'fantasy for people who don't read fantasy.'

I can't live without my silver Marc Jacobs boots! They are a little bit cowboy, a little bit space alien. They go with everything.

I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!

Silver, gold - I don't discriminate! I like sparkly things.

His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin.

Just as like the music industry still wishes for the days when it controlled its own production and distribution, the media and marketing world still yearns for the silver bullet of the thirty-second spot on 'Seinfeld,' even as it knows those days are over.

I usually have a few coins in my pocket when I'm playing, but the one I use to mark my ball on the green is a special silver coin that my wife designed for me. It has our wedding date inscribed on it.

I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time.

Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters.

There is no disgrace in working. There was no silver spoon around at the time I was born.

Silver Machine still sounds really modern with all the white noise. It's a bit punky in a way. They were ahead of their time.

We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings'.

We're leaving the House to people who either were born with a silver spoon in their mouth ... or couldn't get better jobs in the first place.

At the time of the Silver Jubilee, I was a grumpy anti-monarchist. I didn't celebrate and was appalled by the celebrations. In my idiocy, I missed out! I feel completely differently now compared with that time.

I'm incredibly boring; I had a very happy childhood. I never starved, nor did I have a silver spoon in my mouth. I'm one of those terribly middle-of-the-road, British middle class, South London gents.

Almost nothing is presented to you on a silver platter. You have to really work for it.

The future's come and gone; it's a thing of the past. That once impossibly exotic expression 'the year 2000,' for so long evocative of silver suits and robots in pinnies, now feels antiquated.

I didn't want people to think of me as someone who wasn't impressed with a silver medal, because obviously that's a huge accomplishment, and I was so happy. It was more about me just being not impressed with falling at the Olympics in my last event.

People make me key chains... someone attached a Dauntless symbol to a silver pen. That one is what I use to sign books. I use that a lot. I like to keep them around because they remind me that people are waiting for these books and that they really love them. It gives me motivation in those times when I'm not feeling very motivated.

My biggest mistake was when I started up easyEverything, a chain of Internet cafes. The idea that people would go to a shop to use a computer was revolutionary in 1999. It worked for a while, but cheap technology almost killed it. One silver lining of the problems I faced was that it gave me experience of turnarounds.

We're in the service business by nature, but when we can transition that into ownership things, we love it. Our clients love it, too. We get deluged with offers to get involved with this or that. Silver Lake helps us funnel those opportunities.

I'm a simple man. Grew up in a small town. Came from humble beginnings. No silver spoon.

Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.

'Silver Spoons' was great memories - absolutely the best.

I remember, as a kid, riding in the back of my dad's old Saab 95 in Denmark. We were on the highway, and suddenly this silver Maserati Bora came upon us, then passed. At the time, to me, this car looked like a spaceship.

The worst thing you can do to a child, and I've seen it happen so many times, is the silver spoon.

I mean, you know, you're looking at a guy who has a manager, who's created a life for me that - I mean, I don't pay phone bills and electric bills. I have somebody to do that for me. I've been very, very lucky. And I live in this insular sort of world, you know, so everything's, you know, everything's got a silver lining as far as I'm concerned.

My family could only afford to get me the box of eight Crayola crayons, but I craved the one with all 24 colours. I wanted magenta and turquoise and silver and gold.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

As a precious metal, silver is also money.

If there is a silver lining in the action of MSNBC against Keith Olbermann, it is that people will now pay more attention to the political role of corporate media in America.

Today, medical devices such as catheters and stethoscopes use silver, and every hospital in the western world uses silver sulfadiazine to prevent infections.

We believe that the fund interest in silver is built upon a much narrower base of investors than gold, leaving it more vulnerable to big price moves in either direction.

When we had been a week or two in the city of Mexico, we decided upon making an excursion to the great silver mining district of the Real del Monte.

We had 100 kids in each age group and, when the coaches spoke, the players' eyes never left us. These kids were practicing eight hours a day doing all the drills we used to do in the U.S. And it has paid results. Lithuania is a nation the size of Indiana with probably fewer people and they got back-to-back silver medals in the Olympics. That experience got us motivated to teach fundamentals.

We want it to be clarified to us why this family, who has been guarding this boy, is being compelled to betray his trust and hand him over on a silver platter.

Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.

The only silver lining I can find is that British accents aren't sexy anymore.

The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.

It's a truism in technological development that no silver lining comes without its cloud.

There is a silver lining in all the destruction that happened, and we plan to be a part of it.

There are no bacteria known to be resistant to silver or silver oxide.

We're an American Legion post, so we're emphasizing the red, white and blue. But we're also using lavender and silver balloons to acknowledge our connection with the community.

The fact that our ships continue to receive accolades and praise from our guests and the media is testament to our solid commitment to excellence. This is the second consecutive year that Silver Whisper's suites have been voted the best in the world. While it's always gratifying to receive this type of recognition, you can be sure we're not about to rest on our laurels, but will keep looking for new ways to enhance our award-winning experience.

The reality is that unrecorded inventories are huge. This is an old argument -- a bogus argument -- that has been presented for many years, but there is no long-term silver shortage.

This is what I believe to be true. You have to do everything you can. You have to work your hardest. And if you do, if you stay positive, then you have a shot at a silver lining.

To sell oneself for thirty pieces of silver is an honest transaction; but to sell oneself to one s own conscience is to abandon mankind.

There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.

To primitive man, the sky was wonderful, mysterious and awesome, but he could not even dream of what was within the golden disk or silver points of light so far beyond his reach.

We're committed to building the Silver Dart. I really kind of feel in love with this concept.

Silver will be tough. We will have to play well on our home course, because Silver has the capability of beating us. They are a good golf team.

Silver Surges on exchange traded fund hopes. There is a serious risk that the silver price could ramp up by 25 per cent over the next couple of months, driven by supply concerns.

Silver stocks are powering ahead ... taking the HUI above the 315-316 resistance to all-time record highs.

Silver seems to have already entered a period of consolidation, which could lead to silver breaking out to new highs as gold continues to trade within its recent range.

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Silver remains in a unique position to benefit from a sagging dollar, positive equity market action and rising energy prices.

Silver no longer. We are so proud of where we are from and what we accomplished.

Silver Lake has been unquestionably the most successful of the current wave of tech buyout groups. They have shown that despite the apparent risks of these deals, considerable money can me made.

Silver is taking center stage...with the news of Barclays' silver ETF a step closer to possible approval.

Silver is taking center stage ... with the news of Barclays' silver ETF a step closer to possible approval. We have some gold investors moving into the silver market.

Silver is benefiting from pre-positioning ahead of the expected launch of an exchange-traded fund in silver.

Silver is a market that sort of acts like a freight train. It's really slow-moving, and once it gets started in a direction, you cannot stand in front of it.

Silver horses ran down moonbeams in your dark eyes. / Dawnlight smiles on you leaving, my contentment.

Silver has new sponsorship. We are starting to see new funds coming into silver. Part of it has to do with the fact that a lot of traders who follow gold and silver think the silver/gold ratio was out of kilter.

Silver has moved to the fore following the ETF news of the past week and the metal looks set to trade above $10/oz in the near term.

Silver had been less lively than gold (before Wednesday), and now it's doing a pretty good job of a catch-up.

Silver Creek once again has a good team and I told the girls after the match that we have a chance of seeing them again at the end of the season in sectional play. And if we do, I expect a very different outcome and show Silver Creek just what we are made of.

Silver Charm had the ideal running style. You could put him on the lead, or take back. He was smart and intelligent, a push-button horse to ride.

Since I was interested in comic books, I got a job working at the Silver Snail comic book shop here in Toronto; which I suppose a lot of people do.

One of my quotes for the girls today was, 'Leave your silver platters at home, because we're not giving them anything. Then we gave up the first one ... I reminded them to put their silver platters away.

Obviously, we're proud to go home with a medal. We had to fight for every ounce of that bronze. A few shots here or there could have turned into a silver or gold. We can't hang our heads about that.

Obviously we're not scoring, but we've given ourselves a chance in every game. So at the same time, it's a little bit of a silver lining because we're not being totally dominated in every game. It would be a little harder to swallow if we were being dominated on a nightly basis.

Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold; / Beside that which chapmen and merchants brought. And all the kings of Arabia and governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon.

Nobody's told them there's no silver service any more. We need to talk to colleges so we get the right type of skills into the business.

Right now, it's pretty much a straight shot and it washes those contaminants down into Silver Bow Creek. If we create these pool habitats that are normally so good for fish, we could potentially see selenium and cyanide levels rise as contaminated sediment settles out.

Pessimism - Every dark cloud has a silver lining, but lightning kills hundreds of people each year who are trying to find it.

On Sunday morning, it's Brooklyn Bagels on Beverly Boulevard. We get them hot. Then we walk some of the famous Silver Lake steps or hike in the hills to the highest vantage point to see the reservoir.

One of the big things that if you've got a guy who is doing things that other people could view as evil or bad, then you've got to find the silver lining: you've got to find the thing that makes this guy a good guy.

One of the most imperative supplies is a roll of silver duct tape. A strip of duct tape on the front hooves will not come off until you take it off. On the tape, write the horse's name and where they live and directions.

One of my favourite movies is 'Annie Hall' because it's about the silver lining of the break-up.

I was slightly disheartened when three of my films didn't work at the box-office. But the silver lining is that people did appreciate my work in those films. Had my performance gone unnoticed, I would've been in big trouble then.

If we get to the end of February and I've only skied a couple, I'll start to worry. I need to stay positive. The silver lining is that it is snowing, so there will be a longer spring for skiing.

If we had a silver bullet, we would be proposing it to Washington right now. What we would hope is we could all take a deep pause, take a deep breath. We certainly understand the impact high prices are having.

If we had a silver bullet, we would be proposing it to Washington right now.

If they were to spin something like this off it would have a pretty good market capitalization, given what others are willing to pay for silver plays.

I'd love to be able to transition what I do into screenplays that ultimately wind up on the silver screen, television series, and like film projects.

I don't know what happened. I reached down to look at my oil temperature, and when I looked back up everyone was dead stopped. The only silver lining is that our backup car should be as good as our primary. We came down here testing last month and had a tough time deciding which car to bring back, so that's a good sign for Sunday.

I am just happy to still be in the medals to be going home with another silver medal.

I believe the proposed silver ETF can be the biggest thing for silver since the Hunt brothers.

I and others have been looking desperately for silver linings in this tragedy and if Katrina were to motivate Congress to look at this issue seriously, that would be great.

I am very satisfied for this silver medal. We clearly suffered for it. I'm proud of her for being so brave and finishing the competition. This is a beautiful moment for us.

Cell phone-based marketing could be the silver bullet we've been looking for in advertising for a long time.

I majored in hurdle, so I am happy to bring the silver home with my teammates. They did a really good job. I should thank the audience who gave me enormous support tonight.

If I really thought about it, in a way it's depressing. To work thousands of hours for three-tenths of a second. But in track terms, it's an eternity ... all the hard work pays off. In Finland, (winning a silver medal at the 2004 World Outdoor Championships) made it all worthwhile.