Top 94 Miner Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. Behold your nakedness as a precious stone, which not every miner is able to dig it out.
Gloria D. Gonsalves
#4. Life is as the current spark on the miner's wheel of flints; While it spinneth, there is light; stop it, all is darkness.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
#5. Rick Santorum is the grandson of a coal miner. His dad was the manager of a V.A. hospital.
Foster Friess
#6. What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union.
Mary Harris Jones
#7. I can't escape being born in Pike County, Kentucky, grandson of a miner, Luther Tibbs, and his wife, Earlene, and traveling as a child up and down Route 23 between Kentucky and Columbus, Ohio, where I was raised, experiencing life via working-class people. Nor do I want to escape.
Dwight Yoakam
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. Who deserves more credit than the wife of a coal miner? Mother was one.
Merle Travis
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. The union miner cannot agree to the acceptance of a wage principle which will permit his annual earnings and his living standards to be determined by the hungriest unfortunates whom the non-union operators can employ.
John L. Lewis
#14. My parents had told me that I would not really die, not the real me: that nobody really died, when they died; that my kitten and the opal miner had just taken new bodies and would be back again, soon enough.
Neil Gaiman
#15. 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
#16. It was at times like this that one of those waves of bestiality ran through the mine, the sudden lust of the male that came over a miner when he met one of these girls on all fours, with her rear in the air and her buttocks busting out of her breeches.
Emile Zola
#17. I'm the new age miner,
going to work at the company's
gold mines, where they charge me
for the pick axe
Phil Volatile
#18. He that in ye mine of knowledge deepest diggeth, hath, like every other miner, ye least breathing time, and must sometimes at least come to terr. alt. for air.
Isaac Newton
#19. Reason is the miner's lamp used in bringing up ore from the mind.
Austin O'Malley
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist.
John Ruskin
#23. When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#24. The obstinate miner
of the void
exploits
his fertile mine
Jean Cocteau
#25. 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
#26. If you want to appreciate the Sun, be a miner; to value the land, be a sailor and to long for freedom, get married!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#27. That's the way mining is. You always find a way to cheat fate," he says. "That's what's beautiful about being a miner: Supernatural things always happen." Now
Hector Tobar
#28. My father was a miner and he worked down a mine.
Kevin Keegan
#29. I want to live, I want to give, I've been a miner for a heart of gold.
Neil Young
#30. 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
#32. My father was a steel worker and Martin's [Schulz] grandfather was a miner in Saarland. In these occupations, there is a particular awareness of solidarity. That creates links that aren't present in other relationships.
Jean-Claude Juncker
#33. Oh yeah, I would have been a coal miner, I would think, if I hadn't had tuberculosis when I was 12.
Tom Jones
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal.
Peter Cook
#37. Growing up, I didn't know anybody who didn't have a miner in the family. Both of my grandfathers were miners.
Jennifer Haigh
#38. Soon enough, Miner stopped caring who was watching - for a brief time, he and Ennek were a universe of two.
Kim Fielding
#39. We were all miners in our family. My father was a miner. My mother is a miner. These are miner's hands, but we were all artists, I suppose, really. But I was the first one who had the urge to express myself on paper rather than at the coalface.
Alan Bennett
#40. I remember being very influenced by 'Taxi Driver', and also Tommy Lee Jones in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' a little bit.
Sam Rockwell
#41. In isolation I ruthlessly plow the deep silences, seeking my opportunities like a miner seeking veins of treasures. In what shallow glimmering space shall I find what glimmering glory?
Jamaica Kincaid
#42. Don't matter if you care," the old miner said, "if you don't own what you care about.
Kurt Vonnegut
#43. 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
#44. My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pennsylvania.
Irwin Thomas
#45. 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
#46. My physics teacher, Thomas Miner was particularly gifted. To this day, I remember how he introduced the subject of physics. He told us we were going to learn how to deal with very simple questions such as how a body falls due to the acceleration of gravity.
Steven Chu
#47. So this was where lust was satisfied. If I'd been an old-time miner I'd have asked for my gold nugget back.
Ava Gardner
#48. I am a firm believer that every few years one needs to shake one's life through a sieve, like a miner in the Yukon. The gold nuggets remain. The rest falls through like the soft earth it is.
Amy Poehler
#49. I grew up in Manchester, and we were very poor. My father was a miner who joined the Navy during the war and developed a lung disease and had to have a lung removed.
Bernard Hill
#51. All in all I'd rather have been a judge than a miner. And what's more, being a miner, as soon as you are too old and tired and sick and stupid to do the job properly, you have to go. Well, the very opposite applies with judges. *
Peter Cook
#53. 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
#54. Being a miner he sat on his heels more comfortably than on a chair
Ford Madox Ford
#55. 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
#56. I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.
Tom Jones
#57. The reason I love teaching, it's like being a miner. I find all these undiscovered jewels and, with the right motivation, they're amazed at what they can do. I have to show them their capability.
Rafe Esquith
#58. The CM stands for Cole Miner.
CM Punk
#59. I dont know whether you've ever looked into a miner's eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you've ever seen. I think perhaps that's why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
Alan Bennett
#60. Writer is a miner; he works in the gloomy places like a miner to get the precious material.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#61. Time to put on your miner's hat and headed toward the bright light.
Megan Abbott
#62. Despite their exhaustion and worries, Miner and Ennek made love that night, tracing fingers and tongues over one another's marks and scars. Their bodies were like books, Ennek thought, and their stories could be read inch by inch. He hoped fervently for happy endings.
Kim Fielding
#63. I believe the nearest I've come to perfect love was with a young coal-miner when I was about 16.
D.H. Lawrence
#64. Bergman was the first to bring metaphysics - religion, death, existentialism - to the screen ... But the best of Bergman is the way he speaks of women, of the relationship between men and women. He's like a miner digging in search of purity.
Bertrand Tavernier
#65. I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a hard rock miner. My mom took in wash. I grew up around people of strong values - even if they rarely talked about them.
Harry Reid
#66. My father had been a copper miner, uncles and grandfathers worked in the mines for the Union Pacific. So to me, sitting at a desk all day was not only a privilege but a duty: something I owed to all those people in my life, living and dead, who'd had so much more to say than anyone ever got to hear.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#67. I've got the body of a model and the face of a coal miner.
Jason Flemyng
#68. If there is one man to whom I do feel myself inferior, it is a coal-miner.
George Orwell
#70. 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
#71. Competition is a moral problem and an emotional tangle and a political conundrum.
Valerie Miner
#72. A society must create lots of sunshine for its miners as they need the sun most! And 'to be remembered, to be respected' is a good sunshine; 'safety in the mine' is a good sunshine!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#73. A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might be crazy. But I realize that I'm not going to harm anyone, and the only place that I live is within my own universe, really - so it's O.K.
Rachel Miner
#74. Smart phones are re-inventing the connections between companies and their customers.
Rich Miner
#75. I've got many different voices - I have a Southern girl, an Irish girl. I have a gibberish language that you'd have to decipher. I guess I try to never take myself too seriously.
Rachel Miner
#76. For writers from working-class families, the making of art is cultural disenfranchisement, for we do not belong in literary circles and our writing rarely makes it back home.
Valerie Miner
#77. I've done teaching and things like that because if you're acting, you're becoming other human beings, and you need to have time to find who you are as well.
Rachel Miner
#78. Bravery isn't something that you have. It's a choice you make, every day, to get the job done." Again,
Kathy Miner
#79. A man's reputation is the opinion people have of him; his character is what he really is.
Jack Miner
#80. Deafness, though it be total and congenital, imposes no limits on the intellectual development of its subjects, save in the single direction of the appreciation of acoustic phenomena.
Edward Miner Gallaudet
#81. I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.
Rachel Miner
#82. I don't think I can play a role without falling in love with something about her; even the most despicable people who I have portrayed had some aspect of them which I found beautiful.
Rachel Miner
#83. the detective is usually standing making the suspect sit to given him a dominating height over the suspect Pacing
Steven Miner
#84. Etho thought about the last ten orbits of the sun and looked at Guude, "I should have stayed in the forest.
Stampy Miner
#85. I'm not cool - quite the opposite. I'm a real geek.
Rachel Miner
#86. I have all these rules for avoiding depression. One is going outside in the morning. I don't keep breakfast in the house, so that I have to go out first thing when I first wake up. And then I come back and shower.
Rachel Miner
#87. The same arguments which go to show that knowledge is power, that the condition of a people is improved in proportion as the masses are educated, have their application with equal weight to the deaf ...
Edward Miner Gallaudet
#88. Literature is a peculiarly public product of a particularly private endeavor.
Valerie Miner
#89. I love to bake. There's something very ritualistic about it, kind of magic.
Rachel Miner
#90. Get all the education you can, then add the learning.
Jack Miner
#91. Reading. I know it's not a very active activity, but it is in my head.
Rachel Miner
#92. I think my life is often more interesting in the tabloids than it is in real life - or less; it depends. But I'm curious. I just try and see what they're going to make up next, and I try to just have fun with it and not take it all too seriously, because otherwise you can't function.
Rachel Miner
#93. I have truly eclectic taste in music, and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what's inspiring me. I'll go from Beethoven to Sigur Ros; world music, Brit-pop, classic rock, blues/jazz, even the odd bit of heavy metal.
Rachel Miner
#94. Part of the excitement of doing independent film is the complete unknown of what lies in store for the film's future.
Rachel Miner
