Since the gold rush, there may never have been a time when the majority of people living in California were actually born here. California: A Place, A People, A Dream
O accust craving for gold! Virgil, Aeneid, Book III
Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold. Alain De Lille, Parabolae
"There's gold in them thar hills!" --anonymous miner?
Gold: A metal [that] men dig out of holes for dentists and governments to put back in. Wall Street Journal
Gold-digger : A girl who breaks dates by going out with them. Left Handed Dictionary
Gold Mountain: Chinese term for California
The Second Gold Rush: Wartime ship-building in the East Bay
The Third Gold Rush: Silicon Valley
Mere Coincidence?
Gold: God with an L
God: Gold without an L
Blue and gold--University of California's colors
All that glitters is not gold.
