Quotes About Coal Miners

#1. Now I'm reading an old article on San Giovanni a Carbonara, where it explains what the Carbonara or Carboneto was. I thought that there was coal there once, and coal miners. But no, it was the place for the

Elena Ferrante

#2. The relevant questions now are: How do we move beyond coal? How do we bring new jobs to the coal fields and retrain coal miners for other work? How do we inspire entrepreneurialism and self-reliance in people whose lives have been dependent on the paternalistic coal industry?

Jeff Goodell

#3. Coal miners don't get coal miners' block.

John Green

#4. Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.

Jimmy Breslin

#5. I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.

William Shatner

#6. My father and brothers were coal miners.

Merle Travis

#7. I grew up around some great philosophers: they were coal miners and cowboys born in the 1920s. They were also vets of World War II. Listen to your elders, there isn't any better wisdom for you.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#8. I don't meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers.

Michael Caine

#9. I'm the only candidate which has a policy about how to bring economic opportunity - using clean, renewable energy as the key - into coal country, because we're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.

Hillary Clinton

#10. Southern slave economy, sharecroppers after that, coal miners after that, and machinists and millworkers during more recent times.

J.D. Vance

#11. Every time you warm yourself in front of a hot coal stove, remember the coal miners in the cold dark corridors and pray for them!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#12. A distant cousin sent me some genealogy report on my father's side, and it's sort of what I suspected. Coal miners for generations ... four or maybe five generations.

Gina McKee

#13. 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

#14. The air was thick with coal dust. Was it possible that men breathed this all day? That must be why miners coughed and spat constantly.

Ken Follett

#15. 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

#16. All his life, Klaus had believed that if you read enough books, you could solve any problem, but now he wasn't so sure.

Lemony Snicket

#17. 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

#18. I made up my mind that not only would I become a millionaire, but that I would also raise up millionaires from members of my church

Sunday Adelaja

#19. I find that the less emotion I put into life, the less the past seems to hurt.

David Estes

#20. Hazing is an extraordinary activity that, when it occurs often enough, becomes perversely ordinary as those who engage in it grow desensitized to its inhumanity.

Hank Nuwer

#21. 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

#22. The national strike of the miners in 1972 performed, I believe, a great service, not only to the miners, but the people in Britain today who wanted coal

Michael Foot

#23. Thanks, but that's not going to fix anything. It's like putting a Band-Aid on a bullet wound.

C.C. Hunter

#24. Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Henry Adams

#25. Is it worth getting one more tweet out, or putting your phone down and doing something that is worth tweeting?

Seth Godin

#26. My desire to get here [Parliament] was like miners'coal dust, it was under my fingers and I couldn't scrub it out.

Betty Boothroyd

#27. I believe the nearest I've come to perfect love was with a young coal-miner when I was about 16.

D.H. Lawrence

#28. I have survived and possibly I should not hope for more than that.

Christine Keeler

#29. How bad you want something determines what you will do to get it.

Craig Groeschel

#30. Feeling good in front of the coal stove in a cold day? That's good, but over there you must also feel the sorrows of the miners! In heaven, don't forget the people in hell!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#31. It [salvation] is not this flu shot mentality of an invitation of the Gospel.

Paul Washer

#32. Day full-blown and splendid-day of the immense sun, action, ambition, laughter, The Night follows close with millions of suns, and sleep and restoring darkness.

Walt Whitman

#33. In school, they tell us the Capitol was built in a place once called the Rockies. District 12 was in a region known as Appalachia. Even hundreds of years ago, they mined coal here. Which is why our miners have to dig so deep.

Suzanne Collins

#34. I thought of telling her that I was seeing a boy, too, or at least that I'd watched a movie with one, just because I knew it would surprise and amaze her that anyone as disheveled and awkward and stunted as me could even briefly win the affections of a boy.

John Green

#35. Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

George Eliot

#36. Well, I'll tell you, one of things I'm proud of is for someone from Southern California, who didn't grow up around coal mines, I learned a lot that tragic day we lost twenty-nine miners at Upper Big Branch coal mine.

Hilda Solis