Quotes About Mountaintop Removal

#1. If it can't be proven that mountaintop removal mining is safe, we shouldn't allow it to continue.

John Yarmuth

#2. If the world is the product of nothing but natural forces and natural law, divine intervention is impossible.

Titus Lucretius Carus

#3. Prior to that I testified before the Senate subcommittee addressing mountaintop removal.

Kevin Richardson

#4. It bothers me to know there is the possibility that I as a Christian would be not only an underdog, but that I would be trodden upon if I claimed that I was a Christian.

Lee Greenwood

#5. The real training is building character for a good conduct.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. Economic development is what's going to make mountaintop removal palatable.

Joe Manchin

#7. Jill: 'I don't pay attention to politics.'
Ben: 'You should. It's barely less important than your own heart beat.'
Jill: 'I don't pay attention to that, either.

Robert A. Heinlein

#8. The manner in which one loses the battle can sometimes outshine the victory.

David Millar

#9. We should not only master questions, but also act upon them, and act definitely.

Woodrow Wilson

#10. After 'Crocodile Dundee,' I turned down lots of stuff, most of it where I'd play the girlfriend of some funny man.

Linda Kozlowski

#11. It is a fact that our fresh water is becoming more scarce and that the new ways we are getting energy in America - fracking, mountaintop removal, cyclic steam extraction, deep-sea drilling - all pollute water, pollute the air, and pollute our soil and food.

Mark Ruffalo

#12. Mountaintop removal coal operations enrich only a handful of elites while impoverishing everyone else in their proximity.

Gloria Reuben

#13. Sometimes making a story is as easy as putting two characters in a room and seeing what happens. So, imagine a great white shark and a giant squid in the same bathroom.

Jim Toomey

#14. My handshake is as firm as cooked spaghetti. So, do you prefer your introductions with Alfredo or marinara sauce?

Jarod Kintz

#15. One man carries salvation and damnation from the desert.

Matthew Sawyer

#16. I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.

C.S. Lewis

#17. If you spend five minutes complaining, you have just wasted five minutes. If you continue complaining, it won't be long before they haul you out to a financial desert and there let you choke on the dust of your own regret.

Jim Rohn

#18. This isn't about keeping mountains looking pretty. Ending mountaintop removal is about keeping humanity alive.

Rivera Sun