Top 834 Bronze Medal Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I have had sculptures cast in bronze, silver and aluminium. My drawings are all graphite or pigment ink and gouache on paper.

I've been trying out all these bronzers, and By Terry has an amazing one called the Bronze Expert.

Nobody cares about the bronze or silver medals.

I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.

Here and there on the branch of an oak a congress of leaves still clung, rigid as flakes of bronze.

I'm glad to be partnered with Orgullosa because I feel that now that I'm able to win a gold medal at the Olympics, win a silver medal, I feel little girls will be able to look up to me, and Hispanics will kind of rise a little more.

Poetry is a plan for a slit in the face of a bronze fountain goat and the path of fresh drinking water.

I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.

History, after all, is a process, not a position, and it is not best written in bronze and marble. It is complex, plastic and ever-changing; all things that heroic statues are not.

It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair.

I have a bronze statue of myself, naked. I have these really big curls and water comes out of every curl. It's hot.

If I missed bronze by whisker, it was due to lack of experience.

Not that I went into the Olympics with any doubt, but my holiday plans afterwards depended on how well I did - bronze, silver or gold.

Bronze makes the most complex waveforms of any substance known to man. It creates these vibrations that will just crack your skull.

These guys are just flying through the air and I'm capturing them in the split second and putting it into a work of art, via clay to the bronze.

In Rio, we took the bronze, but I thought we gave everything we had, and that's what we walked away with.

After Russia (winning bronze at Rostelecom Cup), I'm one of the top Canadian ladies. Tomorrow, I just have to do a good long program.

His work "The Pasture" features cast bronze cows in Toronto's financial district I wanted to remind stockbrokers what real stock is.

The man who offers an insult writes it in sand, but for the man who receives it, it's chiseled in bronze.

I come into these competitions to win, not to get silver or bronze, so it is frustrating.

Sometimes when you think something is shiny and gold, it tends to be rusted and bronze, but that's just the way it is, man.

I got an Olympic medal.

Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind.

I give you five minutes to spare your blushes. here is the little bronze key that opens the ebony caskets on the mantle piece in the Louise-Phillipe room. In one of the caskets you will find a scorpion, in the other, a grasshopper, both very cleverly imitated in Japanese bronze: they will say yes or no for you. If you turn the scorpion round, that will mean to me, when I return that you have said yes. The grasshopper will mean no... The grasshopper, be careful of the grass hopper! A grasshopper does not only turn: it hops! It hops! And it hops jolly high!

Bronze is the mirror of form, wine of the heart.

Yeah, that's what kind of, we get the idea a little bit yeah, because other people from different countries also try as hard as they can to get a medal or a gold medal in the Olympic Games. And you know, if they can work hard, we can work hard as well.

The best pastas are cut with bronze dies that give them a rough texture and allow the sauce to cling.

Patience is a part of boxing. After I had missed out on the Olympic gold medal in 1984, a lot of people tried to talk me into turning professional quickly to make money. They told me that the next Olympics in Seoul would be boycotted again, that I was wasting my life, blah blah. But I still had unfinished business. I wanted the gold medal, and I got it in ?88. Only then was I ready to turn professional.

When the Dark comes rising six shall turn it back; Three from the circle, three from the track; Wood, bronze, iron; Water, fire, stone; Five will return and one go alone. Iron for the birthday; bronze carried long; Wood from the burning; stone out of song; Fire in the candle ring; water from the thaw; Six signs the circle and the grail gone before. Fire on the mountain shall find the harp of gold Played to wake the sleepers, oldest of old. Power from the Green Witch, lost beneath the sea. All shall find the Light at last, silver on the tree.

Everything within a half-a-minute or a half-an-inch is gold, silver, bronze or nothing.

I'm extremely content with my silver and bronze medals. But once I won the gold, I fell in love.

I served two tours of duty in Vietnam. I won the Bronze Star. I won the Purple Heart.

Long cold nights mark November's return, grey rains fall, wind walks in the bronze oak leaves.

I like to do a bronze smoky eye with some lashes and a nude lip. That's my favorite look.

When two people are at one in their inmost hearts, they shatter even the strength of iron or bronze.

My father is Spanish, and he went to Venezuela looking for a job. He was 20 something, and he fell in love with a Venezuelan girl. He owns a company there, producing iron and bronze.

Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes.

When you have a bunch of comfortable upholstered pieces, a single bronze or brass chair really turns the energy up.

Shatter the icons of slavery and fear. Replace the leer of the minstrel's burnt-cork face with a proud, serene and classic bronze of Benin.

All bronzes are made to be touched. Bronze is a sensual 'living' material. The sweat and oil of your palms adds to the patination.

Once I knock Szpilka out, I want all the Polish fans to come on the 'Bronze Bomber' train as I bring the heavyweight division back to the top.

I'm chasing that gold medal.

No rendering can really simulate the way the light bounces off the bronze panel. From some angles, it's almost a mirror, and from others it's a matte surface.

We're talking about the Olympics. We're talking about trying to win the gold medal. All of these things can be overwhelming. But regardless of whether I win a gold medal or never compete again, I just have to trust that God has a plan for my life and I'm called to be His representative through the sport and outside of the sport.

I think as a Canadian hockey player, you go through it in your mind so many times, being able to stand on that blue line and hear your national anthem play and being a gold medal champion, you dream of that. And then to be able to accomplish that and actually win a gold medal and represent your country its an amazing feeling.

There's mornings where I have to clear my mind and think, "OK, why am I doing this? Why am I putting myself through this kind of training every day?" I can literally see myself standing on top of a medal podium winning a gold medal next to my teammates, something I've never accomplished. It reminds me: That's why I do what I do. That's why I love it. Let's get in the gym and have a good workout.

I did bronze survival swimming. I could save people in a bronzey kind of way.

The pigeon here is a beautiful bird, of a delicate bronze colour, tinged with pink about the neck, and the wings marked with green and purple.

The scandalous bronze-lacquer age of hungry animalisms, spiritual impotences, and mendacities, will have to run its course, till the pit follow it.

I took part in the sun-tanning Olympics – I just got bronze.

I looked up and saw my flag. But I didn't hear my anthem. The quotation above from 6 ft 4 inch, 286 pound Silver Medalist Ghaffari (who broke down in tears on the medal stand) summed up his disappointment after an overtime loss to Aleksandr Karelin of Russia. A win would have given Ghaffari not only the Olympic gold medal but also his first victory over Karelin, something of which he has literally dreamed about after 20 meets between the two. Karelin dominates international competition in the sport.

If God awarded us medals, as they do in the Olympics, love would win the gold, joy the silver, and peace the bronze.

It's cool when people ask me about my gold medal and they say it will last forever. I will try to promote skiing and show everyone it's not just about competition. It's about having fun with your friends in the snow. I want to bring people with less opportunities to the snow, try to use my gold medal to support programs to bring more people to the snow.

I have bronze in Beijing, silver in London, and now gold in Rio. It is the perfect story.

Medal of Honor belongs to every man and woman who gives us the freedom today to be able to hold our flag and hold our heads up high and say we have the greatest country in the world. And that goes with the men and women in the past, and the men and women of today, and the men and women of the future. As long as Mike Thornton lives, that medal will always stand for all them. Not for me. Not for what I've done, but for what I was trained to do and what they have been trained to do to give us our freedom today.

They said we were soft, that we would not fight, that we could not win. We are not a warlike nation. We do not go to war for gain or for territory; we go to war for principles, and we produce young men like these. I think I told every one of them that I would rather have that medal, the Congressional Medal of Honor, than to be President of the United States.

If Bronze Bomber got loose in the streets, it won't be something nice.

The 2012 Olympics is going to cost £8 billion which is a lot of money. It'll probably bankrupt London. But you can't put a price on two bronze medals in cycling.

In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.

Pete Rose is too rich a character to fit on a bronze plaque. He requires a good, trenchant, poignant (ah, Petey) book, and this is it.