Famous quotes containing the words billion, gold and/or marks:
“Even one billion Chinese do not a superpower make.”
—John Lukacs (b. 1924)
“If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)
“It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner.... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value—to myself, to my family, and to the world.”
—Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)