Top 42 Coal Miner Quotes
#1. I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal.
Peter Cook
#2. A coal miner from Chongjin whom I met in 2004 in China told me, People are not stupid. Everybody thinks our own government is to blame for our terrible situation. We all know we think that and we all know that everybody else thinks that. We don't need to talk about it.
Barbara Demick
#3. My parents were so proud when I got a scholarship to go to theatre school - it was unheard of that a coal-miner's son should go to drama school.
Brian Blessed
#4. I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. My dad got his first job when he was six years old, in a little village in Wales called Nantyffyllon, cleaning bottles at the Colliers Arms.
Ann Romney
#5. When judging modernity, it is all too tempting to take the viewpoint of a twenty-first-century middle-class Westerner. We must not forget the viewpoints of a nineteenth-century Welsh coal miner, Chinese opium addict or Tasmanian Aborigine. Truganini is no less important than Homer Simpson.
Yuval Noah Harari
#6. Oh yeah, I would have been a coal miner, I would think, if I hadn't had tuberculosis when I was 12.
Tom Jones
#7. Coal is not dear for the coal-miner who can use it there and then, nor is khadi dear for the villager who manufactures his own khadi.
Mahatma Gandhi
#8. African Americans had been compelled to work in Alabama mines prior to the Great Depression. His grandfather, once a coal miner himself, had told him stories of a similar burial field near the family home place south of Birmingham.
Douglas A. Blackmon
#9. Who deserves more credit than the wife of a coal miner? Mother was one.
Merle Travis
#10. He said, See that little girl? I wanted to marry her mother, but she ran off with a coal miner."
-Peeta Mellark in The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins
#11. Rick Santorum is the grandson of a coal miner. His dad was the manager of a V.A. hospital.
Foster Friess
#12. To be a good researcher is to be a good detective, and I enjoy ferreting out tidbits of information. For a diary book like 'A Coal Miner's Bride,' newspapers come in handy for small everyday details such as weather reports.
Susan Campbell Bartoletti
#13. I think someone in the union has the right to a private vote, and that's why I'm anti-card check. I grew up in a union family. My grandfather was a coal miner; he was in the union.
Jim Renacci
#14. I didn't even watch the soaps when I was in them because it's like a coal miner coming home and staring at the coal scuttle - I was never a great lover of watching myself act.
Ross Kemp
#15. I know I'm not a coal miner, but I do long hours and I never complain, and there is nowhere else I'd rather be. So, yeah, that's how I'd define myself. I want to do it right, and prove people wrong once and for all about the myth of child stars.
Daniel Radcliffe
#16. My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pennsylvania.
Irwin Thomas
#17. I remember being very influenced by 'Taxi Driver', and also Tommy Lee Jones in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' a little bit.
Sam Rockwell
#18. I came from a very, very small valley in the middle of South Wales. I grew up there with my father, who's a coal miner, and my mother worked in a normal factory.
Aneurin Barnard
#19. If there is one man to whom I do feel myself inferior, it is a coal-miner.
George Orwell
#20. I've got the body of a model and the face of a coal miner.
Jason Flemyng
#21. I believe the nearest I've come to perfect love was with a young coal-miner when I was about 16.
D.H. Lawrence
#22. My great-grandfather was a coal miner, who worked in Pennsylvania mines when carts were pulled by mules and mines were lit by candles. Mining was very dangerous work then.
Tim Murphy
#23. I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.
Tom Jones
#24. The hardest thing I've had to overcome was being from my small coal-mining town of Big Stone Gap, Virginia. My mother was a coal miner for nineteen years, and the expectations of making it out of my town were slim to none.
Thomas Jones
#25. hungry spirits so that cattle and crops would not be damaged. The nearness of the spirits meant that all sorts of secrets could be divined on Halloween Night. Young couples roasted nuts on a fire, for example,
Frank McNally
#26. Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose dubious brightness falsifies everything, whose wick is in permanent danger of explosion, whose blinking illumination in the coal dust exhausts and corrodes your eyes.
Blaise Cendrars
#27. The first horror movie I saw, in first or second grade, was My Bloody Valentine [1981], where there's a deranged killer in a miner mask stalking a small coal town.
Christopher Bollen
#28. Understanding who you are within leads to changing a man's value and behavior
Sunday Adelaja
#29. Why do we need school when we have BOOKS?
Kim
#30. Nature has always had more force than education.
Voltaire
#31. Here, are the stiffening hills, here, the rich cargo
Congealed in the dark arteries,
Old veins
That hold Glamorgan's blood.
The midnight miner in the secret seams,
Limb, life, and bread.
- Rhondda Valley
Mervyn Peake
#32. If you were feeling sad right now and you recall a sad - or, a very happy memory from the past, it will be tinged with more sadness based on your current feeling. So we felt like that was actually on solid scientific ground .
Pete Docter
#33. We're already saying it's not the dog, but you need to adopt this lifestyle which is exercise, discipline, and affection.
Cesar Millan
#34. It's very nice to work with my father as a peer in a lot of ways. You know, he asked me advice about certain things about the show and I'd ask him and sometimes I'd listen to his direction and sometimes I wouldn't.
Emily Deschanel
#36. I think you're worried about nothing," I told him.
"And I think I got a dick," he told me and I blinked at his words. "And havin' a dick, I know how other guys who got one think.
Kristen Ashley
#37. Prince presented us at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Bernie Worrell
#38. He looked at her for a long moment, as if remembering unfinished conversations, and then went back to place some damp, slow-burning turf on the fire.
Pete Hamill
#39. There are no problems - only opportunities to be creative.
Dorye Roettger
#40. One day work is hard, and another day it is easy; but if I had waited for inspiration I am afraid I should have done nothing. The miner does not sit at the top of the shaft waiting for the coal to come bubbling up to the surface. One must go deep down, and work out every vein carefully.
Sir Arthur Sullivan
#41. I met Jeb Bush in 1971 in my hometown in Mexico. We dated for three years back and forth. Then, after three years, he proposed to me.
Columba Bush
#42. But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
Rachel Carson