Old Miner Sayings

#1. Don't matter if you care," the old miner said, "if you don't own what you care about.

Kurt Vonnegut

#2. It's all mine, it's all sacred.

Coco J. Ginger

#3. Our continents unification is at hand and we must stand to account.

Romano Prodi

#4. A giant thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.

Edward Abbey

#5. I don't have a girlfriend. No, I don't. I haven't had a relationship in years, actually. But yeah, I'm still looking. It's kind of nice to be looking for a home at the same time.

Jens Lekman

#6. 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

#7. Whenever he began to see me as something more than a liability or a weapon,
whenever we spoke to each other without the barrier of rank and history between us, he backed away, more often than not insulting me to force the distance. Merit - Chicagoland Vampires

Chloe Neill

#8. Your hair looks funny," Lief said, as soon as the Ugloids left. "It stands straight up!"
No," said Nick, intensely irritated, "It's hanging straight down."
Lief just gave him an upside-down shrug. "Up is down in China and you're part-Chinese.

Neal Shusterman

#9. The comfort of shaving with your knife is in the knowing that it is honed to perfection.

Mark Lawrence

#10. 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

#11. It. I don't mean to poke the bear, but I've got one nerve left, and Maddox is dry-humping it. So, could you all move it along?

Jamie McGuire

#12. Memories make us who we are," he said. "Without them, we are nothing.

Melissa Grey

#13. I like to write literature that reads like pulp fiction.

Nike N. Chillemi

#14. Social Science ... led us to the fallacy that, since all men have their being in culture and as a result of culture, they owe a debt to that culture which even a lifetime of altruism could not repay.

David Riesman

#15. I loved WICKED. I wish there were a part I could play in it.

Hugh Panaro

#16. 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

#17. A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up.

Suzi Quatro

#18. 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

#19. The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people that make them unsafe.

Frank Rizzo

#20. He who cannot accept reproof cannot become great.

Nachman Of Breslov