Top 100 Quotes About Mines
#1. 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
#2. The convicts working the mines were almost all like him. Black, once slave, once free, now slave again.
Yaa Gyasi
#3. His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.
Mark Twain
#4. Broadway - the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
O. Henry
#5. My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff.
Bill Gates
#6. With many readers, brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under ground.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#7. I always say to my people, how come I'm always audited and friends of mine are never audited?
Donald Trump
#8. I collaborate with people because their music talk to me as much as mine talk to them.
Angelique Kidjo
#9. Fool of a Took!" he growled. "This is a serious journey, not a hobbit walking-party. Throw yourself in next time, and then you will be no further nuisance.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#10. The road to riches is never straight and narrow. It can be riddled with financial land mines.
Kevin O'Leary
#11. My father was a miner and he worked down a mine.
Kevin Keegan
#12. Some people think prayer stops bullets or rockets or land mines. It doesn't. That's magic, that's not God. Sometimes, you're just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
John Shelby Spong
#13. Nothing will do me any good unless I learn to control this body of mine.
Alice Dunbar Nelson
#14. Success is mine when I work my hardest to become my best, and I alone determine whether I do so.
John Wooden
#15. Tumblr was simply a tool for anyone to make a blog like mine.
David Karp
#16. Money never seems to be interested in strengthening regulatory agencies, for example, but always in subverting them, in making them miss the danger signs in coal mines and in derivatives trading and in deep-sea oil wells.
Thomas Frank
#17. First of all, don't mix your hairpins up with mine! You ... Oh! All right, mix your muck with mine. Mix it! Mix your rags with my tatters! Mix it all up ...
Jean Genet
#18. You just can't win. Men have very recent land mines in their heads. Women have recorded conversations and photographs in their heads from 15 years ago.
Denis Leary
#19. What is yours is mine, and all mine is yours.
Plautus
#20. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine
Mary Oliver
#21. Mine is really - Ziggy Stardust, characters, "Let's Dance." That's me in the American.
David Bowie
#22. Twelve barrels of water are required to make one barrel of bitumen. This produces 400 million gallons a day of toxic wastewater at the tar sand mines.
Samuel Avery
#23. I'm sayin', why spend mine when I can spend yours?
Lil' Kim
#24. My friends actually found a fansite of mine, and they all registered to be in it.
Mark Indelicato
#25. I have no limitations. Unlimited power is mine within that which is universal.
Walter Russell
#26. We should have springs and rivers, not mines and treasure tunnels. Gold is an unwelcome visitor. It works against the acclimation of people to the land.
Tim Westover
#27. I learned that to find meaning in life, you can't separate yourself from serving people and giving your life to them.
Felix Muruchi
#29. One day you will have to tell me where you acquired this aversion to walking on solid ground," said Dominic. "Try having a baby sister whose idea of a good time involves pit traps and land mines," I advised.
Seanan McGuire
#30. Every one of us gets to find our way, hopefully surrounded by love, but we still have to pick out our own way through the land mines of life. By accepting this and relinquishing control, there's just extraordinary beauty.
Ali MacGraw
#31. A friend of mine told me to shoot first and ask questions later. I was going to ask him why, but I had to shoot him.
John Wayne
#33. It is not your business to love me. It is mine.
Byron Katie
#35. I don't ever be trippin off of what ain't mine.
Drake
#37. All the fascination of King Solomon's Mines seems to be behind those great mountains and this I may add is a bit of advance work for mother, an entering wedge to my disappearing from sight for years and years in the Congo.
Richard H. Davis
#39. As you are woman, so be lovely: As you are lovely, so be various, Merciful as constant, constant as various, So be mine, as I yours for ever.
Robert Graves
#40. There have been cans of dog food more splendiferous than South Richmond. Land mines more tender.
Tom Robbins
#42. Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we'll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.
Jess C. Scott
#43. Ideally, you should be your own hero, just as I am mine.
Michael Bywater
#44. This mental space is occupied and everything is mine.
Leonard Cohen
#45. Lawrence Millman is a favorite writer of mine. He did a travels on the trail of the Vikings.
John Gimlette
#46. Tolkien made dwarf sign language because, you know, it's too loud to talk in the mines.
Richard C. Armitage
#47. Chile's mines are very dangerous; the country has a lot of earthquakes.
Patricia Riggen
#48. Stop looking out, start looking in. Be your own best friend. Stand up and say, hey, this is mine!
Sammy Hagar
#49. The communications industry has been tremendously successful, but we need to build the railroads and the oil wells and the gold mines of space.
Peter Diamandis
#51. He who thinks in a sunny garden about the miners who work in the dark galleries of mines will understand so perfectly how beautiful and how hard life is!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#52. Mine! There isn't any such thing as mine. The world slips slithering through my fingers.
Nancy Hale
#53. A friend of mine, a friend of yours. My better half, Richard Stephen Sambora
Jon Bon Jovi
#54. If you are digging for excellent or suggestive renderings, this is among the richer mines.
Steven T. Byington
#55. I am not anti-rational, just unrational. You may infer a rational meaning in what I say or do, but it is your doing, not mine.
U.G. Krishnamurti
#56. One of the strengths of Adani is that, because we are controlling mines, ships, ports and logistics, we are the cheapest solution provider for end users.
Gautam Adani
#57. How can I even secretly harbour the thought that my neighbour's faith is inferior to mine?
Mahatma Gandhi
#58. Let the world wagge, and take mine ease in myne Inne.
John Heywood
#59. It's in my nature to feel, 'I could be this! This could be mine!'
June Squibb
#60. Whatever happens with us, your body will haunt mine
Adrienne Rich
#61. Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature's creative powers are greater than man's destructive instincts.
Jules Verne
#63. There is nothing more mine than my writing, nothing I'm more proprietary about.
Fran Lebowitz
#64. For 'tis the sport to have the engineer Hoist with his own petar; and't shall go hard But I will delve one yard below their mines And blow them at the moon.
William Shakespeare
#65. You can lead mankind into the gold mines of the mind and into the diamond fields of the soul, and the secret lies in the words you speak.
Christian D. Larson
#66. The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the turning of Africa into a warren for the commercial hunting of black-skins, signalised the rosy dawn of the era of capitalist production.
Karl Marx
#67. Mines!" Patsy shouts, pointing at Tim. He goes to her, rumples her scanty hair.
"See, hot Alice? Even the very young feel the pull of my magnetism. It's like an irresistible urge, a force like gravity, or - "
"Poop!
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#68. After working fourteen-hour shifts in the mines, inhaling so much nickel they sneezed silver glitter, none could have expected a private performance from the prima ballerina of the Kirov.
Anthony Marra
#69. You get your chips your way, I'll get my chips mine.
Phil Ivey
#70. Well, I'm not here to live up to anyone else's expectations-I'm here to live up to mine.
Jeremy Lin
#71. My comedy is not mine. It's a gift. I'm not that smart.
Tim Allen
#73. It would have been a wonderful wedding - had it not been mine.
Erma Bombeck
#74. Smell brings to mind ... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years.
Diane Ackerman
#75. Good nutrition has given you some length of bone, but you're not more than one generation out of the mines Officer Starling.
Thomas Harris
#76. A totalitarian system leaves behind it a minefield built into both the country's social structure and the individual psychology of its citizens. And mines explode each time the system faces the danger of being dismantled and the country sees the prospect of genuine renewal.
Anatoly Sobchak
#77. Mine, adj. Belonging to me if I can hold or seize it.
Ambrose Bierce
#78. Sal could have killed me for trying to escape the mines, but he didn't. I'd certainly given him plenty of reasons to do it before then as well. I had to help him now. The
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#79. Perhaps I failed, but I did my best, These masters of mine may do the rest.
Nikola Tesla
#80. My father had been a copper miner, uncles and grandfathers worked in the mines for the Union Pacific. So to me, sitting at a desk all day was not only a privilege but a duty: something I owed to all those people in my life, living and dead, who'd had so much more to say than anyone ever got to hear.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#81. Right now, it felt like there was nowhere for his thoughts to alight that wasn't rife with land mines of regret or anger or guilt.
Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
#82. I'm just gonna do a podcast because it's mine, I can control it, I have complete responsibility over it, and no one can touch it.
Chris Hardwick
#83. Scratch any fortune and you'll find blood only a generation or two back ... child labor in mines or mills ... Slavery. Drugs. Stock swindles. Wasting nature with clear-cuts, pollution, harvesting to extinction. Monopolies. Disease. War. Every fortune comes out of something unpleasant.
Chuck Palahniuk
#84. You are mine," he rasped. "Only ever mine. I accept all that you are, and we can be together.
Gena Showalter
#85. It's a natural tendency of mine to not even listen to lyrics.
Zach Condon
#86. We often say that we fear no invasion from the south, but the armies of the south have already crossed the border - American enterprise, American capital is taking rapid possession of our mines and our water power, our oil areas and our timber limits.
Sara Jeannette Duncan
#87. The first trillionaire in the world will be the person who mines asteroids.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#88. It's angering that not everybody has signed this treaty to ban landmines. It's disgusting, it really is, because it is fact that (mines) hurt a high percentage of civilians. They're not effective in any other real way. They've enough weapons for war.
Angelina Jolie
#89. Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades - words, words, but they hold the horror of the world.
Erich Maria Remarque
#90. O Jesus, what a comfort it is that thou hast pleaded our cause against our unseen enemies; countermined their mines, and unmasked their ambushes. Here is a matter for joy, gratitude, hope, and confidence.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#91. I never dealt with fame. It was never a goal of mine to become famous.
Boris Kodjoe
#93. Every punch that's thrown is mine. Every punch that's caught, I catch ...
Denzel Washington
#94. 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
#95. I have seen streets where someone said it's all fine, and then it was full of land mines.
Anja Niedringhaus
#96. I dug it, New York City, all-the streets and the snows and the starving and the five-flight walkups and sleeping in rooms with ten people. I dug the trains and the shadows, the way I dug ore mines and coal mines. I just jumped right to the bottom of New York.
Bob Dylan
#97. Death's vigilance is eternal, so shall mine be.
Dana Gould
#98. Everything of mine which has been filmed so far has been one character short, and that character is me.
Kurt Vonnegut
#99. Maybe you've already guessed by now, and you're sitting there wondering how I could take so long to figure it out. If you are, all I can say is that it's a hell of a lot harder to step back and look at the big picture when you have to keep watching your feet for land mines.
Benedict Jacka
#100. Her eyes flutter up to meet mine. "Are you hungry?"she asks. Am I ever.
Gayle Forman
