Mining Coal Quotes

#1. It seems the EPA has worked hard to devise new regulations that are designed to eliminate coal mining, coal burning, usage of coal.

Hal Rogers

#2. I'm lucky to have a job doing something I really love to do, and I'm happy to accept the pressures of relentless deadlines or reader expectations as necessary evils. It's probably not as stressful as mining coal or leading men into battle.

Grant Morrison

#3. Gathering news in Russia was like mining coal with a hat pin.

Mary Heaton Vorse

#4. The coal mining industry is very destructive and it doesn't have to be.

Kevin Richardson

#5. Forever turned out to be too long.

Julia Ormond

#6. Growing up I played piano and I sang at a lot of weddings; I grew up in a very small town, a little coal-mining town in Virginia called Grundy. And my family was very sing-songy at home.

Jayma Mays

#7. At first we tried to keep up, but soon we were tired of boiling and pickling and deviling, and my mother started complaining that all these free eggs were costing her way too much.

Wendelin Van Draanen

#8. I remember going to see my dad pitch against other coal-mining teams, and he was successful with the knuckleball. I saw how bad guys would look like swinging, and how guys talked about how he could throw every day and didn't hurt his arm. That's how I grew up learning.

Phil Niekro

#9. Coal mining is tough. Acting is just tedious.

Johnny Knoxville

#10. I'm for freedom, which I believe is a universal value that every human being is and that is a gift from God.

Dana Perino

#11. The fact that they stole their whole shtick from Woody Guthrie and the coal-mining bards. While the alternative nation meows about personal fashion angst, the Appalachian nation still sings about unemployment.

Jim Goad

#12. Proofs are to mathematics what spelling (or even calligraphy) is to poetry. Mathematical works do consist of proofs, just as poems do consist of words.

V. I. Arnold

#13. Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.

P. J. O'Rourke

#14. The commencement of coal mining at Parsa Kente is a milestone event in coal mining sector.

Gautam Adani

#15. The only thing perfect is our present because we're breathing, moving, loving, feeling. And we're able to let the people in our lives know how much they mean to us.

Alison G. Bailey

#16. Alecto isn't a person! He's just something that society made and then threw away, a memory that refuses to die.

Rebecca McNutt

#17. Who is destroying the mountains of eastern Kentucky and West Virginia?...It isn't the coal companies. It's us...You did this. Okay, forget the guilt. How can we change that?

Erik Reece

#18. Your optimism today will determine your level of success tomorrow.

Jon Gordon

#19. I got a phone call from Douglas Campbell and from Jerome Guthrie, who offered me a job out of the blue.

Jeffrey Jones

#20. Agriculture is the most destructive industry that we have. More than coal mining and other extractive industries.

Allan Savory

#21. In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved in the struggle knew why they were there. But they couldn't understand why some pop star from London would want to be there.

Billy Bragg

#22. Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world, and which draws and develops a certain kind of man.

Martin Cruz Smith

#23. Obesity is awesome from a Wall Street perspective. It's not just one disease - there are all sorts of related diseases to profit from.

Anne Wojcicki

#24. My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pennsylvania.

Irwin Thomas

#25. Social Security was designed to give a few years of modest benefits to people whose bodies were worn out through coal mining, factory work and other physically demanding labor.

Louis Navellier

#26. But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.

Jeff Goodell

#27. The 100 tv series " Who we are and who we need to be survive are very different things

Kass Morgan

#28. I think the world is often like that." "Like what?" "Comic, but only at the right distance.

Daniel Abraham

#29. Coal mining is an industry rife with mismanagement, corruption, greed and an almost blatant disregard for the safety, health and quality of life of its work force. Everyone knows this. Everyone has always known it.

Tawni O'Dell

#30. If there were to be a Labor-Greens government, that would be the end of the Adani mine, that would be the end of coal mining in central Queensland, and that would be the end of their best shot at economic prosperity in the future.

George Brandis

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. Without passion there might be no errors, but without passion there would certainly be no history.

C.V. Wedgwood

#34. My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal & Lumber that was one of only two or three restaurants at that time. Park City was a sleepy little mining town, with not a condo in sight.

Ira Sachs

#35. Writing is hard ... Coal mining is harder. Do you think miners stand around all day talking about how hard it is to mine for coal? They do not. They simply dig.

Cheryl Strayed

#36. Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.

Floyd Skloot

#37. 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

#38. Everyone knows that we're doing a science experiment with Earth. And the No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, No. 4 contributors to it are the mining and burning of coal.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

#39. The son of a Fife mining town sledder of coal-bings, bottle-forager, and picture-house troglodyte, I was decidedly urban and knew little about native fauna, other than the handful of birds I saw on trips to the beach or Sunday walks.

John Burnside

#40. I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.

Tom Jones