Anthracite Quotes

#1. Framed in black moldings on the wall, other works of arts, conceived and committed on the premises, by the young ladies; being grim black-and-white crayons; landscapes, mostly: lake, solitary sail-boat, petrified clouds, pre-geological trees on shore, anthracite precipice;

Mark Twain

#2. Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new comer like a travelling geologist, who passes through our estate, and shows us good slate, or limestone, or anthracite, in our brush pasture.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. Nothing could happen to me in the water that would make me want to go on the beach and fight someone. That's just not how I do things.

Rob Machado

#4. Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come next.

Dan Ariely

#5. They have miscalculated me as a leader.

George W. Bush

#6. A'ohe I pau ka 'ike I ka halau ho'okahi, she said. It was a popular hula adage that meant:All knowledge is not contained in only one school.

Wendy Wunder

#7. You're asking the wrong girl about fame. I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else.

Nikki Cox

#8. When the Savior Himself was born, there were troubled times.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#9. Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.

Norm MacDonald

#10. Do I mind being called a chick-lit writer? Well, it's not the worst thing that could happen.

Marian Keyes

#11. In war and in peace, a good enemy can be more valuable than a good ally.

James Clavell

#12. I still close my eyes and go home - I can always draw from that.

Dolly Parton