Quotes About Coal Mining

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

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

Allan Savory

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

Gautam Adani

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

P. J. O'Rourke

#7. 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

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

Johnny Knoxville

#9. 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

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

Kevin Richardson

#11. 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

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

Tom Jones

#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. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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.

#21. 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

#22. Make everyday a positive day
Make it joyful and beautiful in everyway

Debasish Mridha

#23. I think that giving mindless praise is ridiculous. But I understand why parents do it. They want their kids to feel good about themselves. But parents are never going to teach their children true, positive self esteem by praising everything they do.

Rosalind Wiseman

#24. The media doesn't need a conscience; people need consciences.

John Hockenberry

#25. If your church conveys that spirit of condescension or judgment, it's likely not a place where grace is on tap.

Philip Yancey

#26. I have no ambition to play the part of a mother, and why should I interfere with her illusions? I find it hard enough to keep my own.

Oscar Wilde

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

Rebecca McNutt

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#32. But when you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, 65 there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you live in the wisdom of the Self. 66

Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

#33. 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

#34. Do you think Duke Ellington didn't listen to Debussy? Louis Armstrong loved opera, did you know that? Name me a jazz pianist who wasn't influenced by European music!

Dave Brubeck

#35. And then, when I went into the Navy, there was no choice. You took about half of the hours during your naval training as naval courses and the other half were engineering.

Daniel J. Evans

#36. I think any writer is a fool if he doesn't do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive in addition to the project. It all goes together. It's fun to sit there and think of characters and get them into action, then be paid for it.

Elmore Leonard

#37. 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

#38. Like it says in the Bible, being a friend means never having to witness farting belly buttons. Or something.

Jenny Lawson

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

Irwin Thomas

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

Mary Heaton Vorse

#41. If there is a devil, his greatest tool is division. He divides us into this group and that group and whispers that the worst, most embarrassing thing we can do is jump sides. The worst thing we can do is change our minds. Now, how silly is that? I change my mind about things every day.

S.T. Rogers

#42. For what war should we not be fit and eager, even though unequal in numbers, we who are so willing to be slaughtered-if, according to that discipline of ours, it was not more lawful to be slain than to slay?

Tertullian