Metals Quotes

Our forefathers showed much wisdom in selecting silver, of the two metals, out of which to make the unit…. In considering which of these two metals they would thus favor by making it the unit, they were led to adopt silver because it was the most reliable. It was the most favored as money by the people. It was scattered among all the people. Men having a design to injure business by making money scarce, could not easily get hold of all the silver and hide it away, as they could gold. This was the principal reason that led them to the conclusion to select silver, the more stable of the two metals, upon which to fix the unit. It was so much handled by the people and preferred by them, that it was called the people's money.

At an ever accelerating rate we are now squandering the capital of metallic ores and fossil fuels accumulated in the earth’s crust during hundreds of millions of years. How long can this spending spree go on?

I Write those words in steel for anything else not set in metal cannot be trusted

Basically I listen to just about everything except heavy metal.

I'm only interested in heavy metal when it's me who's playing it. I suppose it's a bit like smelling your own farts.

Steel is needed everywhere.

I think it's a misconception that metal's about anger, obviously.

She'll understand what I already know - that death surrounds us all. And it tastes like metal between your teeth.

In summer 1961, Rose-Marie Egger became my wife, and her stabilizing influence has kept me on an even keel ever since. Our honeymoon trip led us to the United States where I spent two post-doc years working on thermal conductivity of type-II superconductors and metals in the group of Professor Bernie Serin at Rutgers University in New Jersey.

Gold and Silver

Metal is the feeling of being an outsider, but still being part of something huge.

I suppose I'd get in trouble if I were to melt them down.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

Who can tell what metals the gods use in forging the subtle bond which we call sympathy, which we might as well call love.

My administration will put new American metal into the spine of this nation.

If precious metals had been abundant, they would not have been precious.

Ice and iron cannot be welded.

Priests were metal-reinforced overshoes. They saved your soles. This is an Assassin joke.

There are two metals, one of which is omnipotent in the cabinet, and the other in the camp--gold and iron. He that knows how to apply them both may indeed attain the highest station.

Our squalid society rushed, Narcissus to a man, to gaze on its trivial image on a scrap of metal.

If you believe that the developing world deserves the same standards of living that we do in the developed world, then to achieve that, they need resources. They need the metals and the minerals to build the industries and the buildings and so forth, and the energy.

To a large degree I don't even like most metal music I hear.

Personally I don't understand why the metal press even bother, but I guess it is good they do.