Top 780 Coal Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Social media is the ultimate canary in the coal mine

I'm like coal under pressure. I turn into a diamond.

Even coal shimmers in the light

A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job

My dad was a coal miner in County Durham.

I come from the coal fields.

I will fight for oil, coal and natural gas.

...as nervous as a bird in a coal mine.

Inside every lump of coal there's a diamond waiting to get out.

We're not going to be living in a world of abundant coal power in a hundred years.

A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made good under pressure.

I come from a family of coal miners.

We need to invest in all energy sources, including coal and shale.

As a continent, I think there are opportunities for Asia to accept imports of Wyoming coal.

I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal.

To hell with the Constitution when people want coal!

Rumors of coal's demise may have been greatly exaggerated.

Coal is the single greatest threat to civilization and all life on our planet.

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

I'm so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.

Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.

Predators, they're the best coal miners' canary. When they're gone, you've got a sick ecosystem.

To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.

The golden era for coal is over.

Not all the coal that is dug warms the world.

It is very different to make a practical system and to introduce it. A few experiments in the laboratory would prove the practicability of system long before it could be brought into general use. You can take a pipe and put a little coal in it, close it up, heat it and light the gas that comes out of the stem, but that is not introducing gas lighting. I'll bet that if it were discovered to-morrow in New York that gas could be made out of coal it would be at least five years before the system would be in general use.

I've got the body of a model and the face of a coal miner.

When it comes to global warming, coal is the gorilla in the room.

My father and brothers were coal miners.

Coal is absolutely critical to our nation's economic health and global competitiveness.

America was built on cheap and abundant coal.

Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.

No one wants to stoke coal if he can regulate an oil valve instead.

You can't mine coal without machine guns.

Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.

Writing was like digging coal. I sweat blood. The spell is on me.

A diamond is just a lump of coal that stuck to its job.

After all, game shows are not like working in a coal mine.

I certainly would like to see the war on coal come to an end.

I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday).

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

I grew up near Strasbourg in Alsace, where my family were coal merchants.

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

Coal is my worst nightmare.

Coal is a portable climate.

I don't see any new coal.

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

You can auction coal blocks. All natural resources of government should be auctioned.

The closing of ash basins is really part of decommissioning a coal plant.

America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.

Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing.

If you want improvements in coal, you've got to keep people in the business.

Coal mining is tough. Acting is just tedious.

Somehow it always comes back to coal at school.

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

The most revolutionary aspect of technology is its mobility. Anybody can learn it. It jumps easily over barriers of race and language. ... The new technology of microchips and computer software is learned much faster than the old technology of coal and iron. It took three generations of misery for the older industrial countries to master the technology of coal and iron. The new industrial countries of East Asia, South Korea, and Singapore and Taiwan, mastered the new technology and made the jump from poverty to wealth in a single generation.

Coal is a big deal here in Wyoming.

Who deserves more credit than the wife of a coal miner? Mother was one.

Don't save the canary. Fix the coal mine.

Without a whole lot of pressure, a diamond is just a piece of coal.