Quotes About Gold Miners

#1. Tourism is important because it can create sustainable local economies. I'd much rather have 1,000 tourists going up the Tambopata than 1,000 gold miners.

Frans Lanting

#2. You'd rather own gold; not the miner

Kevin O'Leary

#3. When we're in that kind of childish space, we're more genuine and feel more comfortable with our friends.

Evan Spiegel

#4. During the Gold Rush, most would-be miners lost money, but people who sold them picks, shovels, tents and blue-jeans (Levi Strauss) made a nice profit.

Peter Lynch

#5. Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications.

Raymond Carver

#6. I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.

Barbra Streisand

#7. Nixon was a good president on the environment. Gerald Ford was good.

Stewart Udall

#8. Some miners' wives take in washing and make more money than their husbands do. In every gold rush from this one to the Klondike, the suppliers and service industries will gather up the dust while ninety-nine per cent of the miners go home with empty pokes.

John McPhee

#9. I rouse you with loud knocking, I do so
only because I seldom hear you breathe

Rainer Maria Rilke