Top 863 Coal Miners Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.

Economy does not consist in saving the coal, but in using the time while it burns.

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

Its tall chimneys throw up black smoke, impregnating everything with soot, and the miners' faces as they traveled the streets were also imbued with that ancient melancholy of smoke, unifying everything with its grayish monotones, a perfect coupling with the gray mountain days.

India doesn't take responsibility for the problems that the world is facing because of thermal coal.

The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric. They are construing our constitution from a co-ordination of a general and special government to a general and supreme one alone.

In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event.

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

The grudge you hold on to is like a hot coal that you intend to throw at someone, only you're the one who gets burned.

Rather than relying on farmers, ranchers, outdoorsmen, lumberjacks, surveyors, oil workers, miners, or community leaders who have decades of land use experience, government policymakers turn to 25-year-olds with master's degrees in ecology and political science to run the country's public lands policy.

The president's come out with rules that say 'no new coal-fired power plants.’

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

Affection is a coal that must be cooled; else, suffered, it will set the heart on fire.

The only candidate pocketing big money from people who want to destroy coal is Mitch McConnell.

More people now work in the arts than the steel, coal and car industries combined.

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

I believe the nearest I've come to perfect love was with a young coal-miner when I was about 16.

Victorian feminists made the mistake of making membership of the sisterhood conditional on signing up to a particular policy agenda. Marxist feminists made a similar mistake of saying, 'You can't be a real feminist unless you join with miners, the unions, the vegans.'

I'm not against Kyoto. I just think it's a fantasy, especially considering China's energy predicament and their coal supplies.

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

The only difference between black coal and a precious diamond is the amount of pressure it endured.

I voted against H.R. 1119, which would weaken emissions standards for coal refuse power plants.

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

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

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

Just like Hillary Clinton is against the miners, she is against the police, believe me. Those peddling, the narrative of cops as a racist force in our society have fostered the dangerous anti-police atmosphere in America.

We must rapidly wean ourselves off our dependence on coal and fossil fuels.

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

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

This thing called rhymin' is no different than coal minin'; We both on assignment to unearth the diamond.

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

The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.

Like the canary in the coal mine, the climate changes already evident in the Arctic are a call to action.

We need to diversify our economy, but I also think we still have a future in coal.

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

Agriculture is the most destructive industry that we have. More than coal mining and other extractive industries.

Neither solar nor wind are actually substitutes for coal or natural gas or oil.

...for though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.

Some studies have shown that natural gas could, in fact, be worse for the climate than coal.

Everyone knows that we're doing a science experiment with Earth. And the No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, No. 4 contributors to it are the mining and burning of coal.

It's like holding a hot coal in your hand, it just burns you, it doesn't do me any good.

I have been working. I've been blessed to have shared a movie in the north of Chile called 'The 33,' with Gabriel Byrne and Juliette Binoche and Antonio Banderas, which is the beautiful story of the miners (trapped underground for 69 days in 2010). And then, this incredible, epic story came my way.

Electricity is derived from many non-renewable energy sources like oil, natural gas and coal.

The strike of the miners in Arizona was one of the most remarkable strikes in the history of the American labor movement. Its peaceful character, its successful outcome, were due to that most remarkable character, Governor Hunt.

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

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

Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.

As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain.

The canary bird in the coal mine theory of the arts: artists should be treasured as alarm systems.

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

There are no coal plants on the drawing board for Duke, which leaves us with gas, renewables, and nuclear.

Being in a Chinese coal mine for 30 years is like an epic novel. It's tragic.

The purpose of the Filecoin currency is to create a fungible token that can be spent to hire the miner network to store files. The first and foremost use of the currency is precisely this: locking it up as a reward to miners who successfully store data on the network.

Rick Santorum is the grandson of a coal miner. His dad was the manager of a V.A. hospital.

A city built on rivers and bituminous coal, Pittsburgh in the '90s has survived the boom and bust years.

We were all miners in our family. My father was a miner. My mother is a miner. These are miner's hands, but we were all artists, I suppose, really. But I was the first one who had the urge to express myself on paper rather than at the coalface.

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

The best sun we have is made of Newcastle coal, and I am determined never to reckon upon any other.

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

We're going to need oil and gas and coal for a long time if America wants to keep the lights on.