Top 863 Coal Miners Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

My dad was a coal miner in County Durham.

Not all the coal that is dug warms the world.

I've spent my whole working life standing up for workers. Didn't matter if it was the two trapped miners at Beaconsfield or professional netballers or indeed factory workers or construction workers.

The golden era for coal is over.

I don't see any new coal.

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

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

But at the same time I went down into the mines with working miners who are still young men, younger than I am, who are aware that their working life is coming to an end and they feel suddenly cut off.

I will fight for oil, coal and natural gas.

Coal mining is tough. Acting is just tedious.

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

I buried my baby brother this year because of the opioid crisis, I've seen my friends and family, strong miners born and bred in these hills out of work, and people crying out for help.

To hell with the Constitution when people want coal!

The Treaty of Fort Laramie established most of what would later become South Dakota as a reservation, along with the Black Hills. But the treaty did not stop miners, buffalo hunters, railroad men, or settlers from intruding on Lakota lands.

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

Each time a new disaster puts miners in the news, the press tries to make them into heroes, but they don't quite fit the bill. They don't march off to war or rush into burning buildings or rid our streets of crime.

Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.

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

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

Coal is a portable climate.

Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.

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

I joined the Communist Party when I was 18. When I was 10, there was the miners' strike, and the Cold War was going on; it was quite a potent time to get involved in politics. I got involved through my grandfather, who was a member.

Instead of attacking and dividing our people, I'll focus on better paying jobs, career and skills training, and apprenticeships. And I'll always protect our miners and your health care.

Our view is that the very best data miners or statisticians can earn as much as the very best golfers or tennis players.

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.

Somehow it always comes back to coal at school.

Some miners would have 20 pints after a hard day in the mine. Now that we sit behind computers all day, this is down to 18 or 19 pints.

Coal is my worst nightmare.

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

Watching these channels all day is incredibly depressing. I live in a constant state of depression. I think of us as turd miners. I put on my helmet, I go and mine turds, hopefully I don't get turd lung disease.

To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.

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

Coal is a big deal here in Wyoming.

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

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

You can't mine coal without machine guns.

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

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

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

I went back in British history. Some 204 people died there after a mine collapsed in 1838. In 1866, 361 miners died in Britain. In an explosion in 1894, 290 people died there.

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

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

The City of London and Wall Street are not going to be great places to be in the next two or three decades. It's going to be the people who produce real goods in charge – the farmers and the miners.

Mining is a dangerous profession. There's no way to make a mine completely safe: These are the words owners have always used to excuse needless deaths and the words miners use to prepare for them.

The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win.

Even coal shimmers in the light

Thatcher had broken the miners' union, all but crushed the Labour Party, dramatically cut back the welfare state, even flirted with a poll tax. In the circles I ran in, Reagan was mocked as a childish dolt. Thatcher was despised.

Social media is the ultimate canary in the coal mine

I come from the coal fields.

I decided to engage in life conversations through my programme 'Avid Miners.' This is all about sharing experiences and spreading positivity. The audience range from school students, colleges and even corporate employees. And this journey has been quite an experience for me, I must add!

America was built on cheap and abundant coal.

The public subsidies provided to miners, loggers, and ranchers are as extravagant and as harmful to the public interest as the subsidies that the Federal Reserve and Treasury provide to the 'banks too big to fail.'

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

I wrote '33 Men' in eight weeks. Not only was it a combination of simultaneously writing and interviewing, but as I dug deeper into the miners' story, I found the key to their success was the ability to place their individuality on the back burner and bring forward the sense of a collective group responsibility.

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.

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.

Scientists didn't discover the noble gas helium - the second most common element in the universe - on Earth until 1895. And they thought it existed in minute quantities only, until miners found a huge underground cache in Kansas in 1903.

America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.

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