Top 863 Coal Miners Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

The European Union should come up with a solid plan to help especially Poland and Slovakia make this transition away from coal.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal while blaming our misery on the person who started the fire.

There is basically no one not on the payroll of Exxon Mobil or coal companies who any longer contend that this is not something to worry about.

As I've said repeatedly over the last few years, the war on coal was not a result of anything Congress passed; there was no legislation.

We have more natural resources - coal, oil, wind - across the board not only to be energy independent but to be a leading exporter.

The profits of oil, coal, and natural gas companies will have to yield to the imperative of sustaining life on earth.

But all the wickedness in the world which man may do or think is no more to the mercy of God than a live coal dropped in the sea.

I'm working as hard as I can for West Virginia and its people to continue to provide the coal that keeps the lights on in our country.

I remember being very influenced by 'Taxi Driver', and also Tommy Lee Jones in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' a little bit.

Late 19th-century America was basically a plutocratic enterprise while people toiled in mines and died of coal dust poisoning.

The carbon fuels industry-big oil and coal-have a 50-year lease on the Republican Party and they are drilling it for everything it's worth.

The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.

Don't judge the future of a person based on his present conditions, becausetime has the power to change black coal to shiny diamond.

Arthur Scargill’s leadership of the miners’ strike has been a disgrace. The price to be paid for his folly will be immense. He will have destroyed the NUM as an effective fighting force within British trade unionism for the next 20 years. If kamikaze pilots were to form their own union, Arthur would be an ideal choice for leader.

An opportunity to honor the legacy of the lives drawn into the lines in my face, the broad of my nose, the dark of my eyes, the fullness of my lips, and coal in my complexion.

This idea you're going to take a 50-year-old coal miner and turn them into a software engineer is ridiculous.

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf. We must somehow take a wider view, look at the whole landscape, really see it, and describe what's going on here. Then we can at least wail the right question into the swaddling band of darkness, or, if it comes to that, choir the proper praise.

The big problem for atomic energy is that it can't compete on price with the new age of cheap shale gas and, to a lesser extent, clean coal.

Love has seven names, / Which, as you know, are appropriate to her; / Chain, light, live coal, and fire - / ... dew, living spring, and hell.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

I came from a poor Pennsylvania coal mining family and the only way I was going to get an education was through an athletic scholarship.

First, by 2020, North America will be energy independent by taking full advantage of our oil and coal and gas and nuclear and renewables.

We should make innovations in coal-mining and metallurgical industries in particular so as to revitalize the overall economy of the country.

With every word, I drop knowledge. I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal.

The average life expectancy of a celebrity is 20 years less than someone working in a coal mine.

The Obama administration and its allies, such as the Sierra Club, tried to kill coal because of their obsession with global warming.

The experience reminds me of a favorite saying: Most of the yield from research efforts comes from the coal that is mined while looking for diamonds.

Auctioning of natural resources such as spectrum, coal, oilfields, and land for commercial exploitation can largely substitute for tax impositions.

God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you, too.

I was born here in West Virginia, though I spent a little time in North Carolina when my step-dad got laid off from the coal mines.

The egg is white though the hen is black as coal...Out of evil comes good, through the great goodness of God.

I have a humble background. My dad was a coal miner. My mum worked a receptionist. I was one of the first people in my family to go to university.

Arthur Scargill's leadership of the miners' strike has been a disgrace. The price to be paid for his folly will be immense. He will have destroyed the N.U.M. as an effective fighting force within British trade unionism for the next 20 years. If kamikaze pilots were to form their own union, Arthur would be an ideal choice for leader.

To deal with local pollution, China has put on the agenda the capping of coal, which has long been a sensitive issue.

Frankly, the only thing China has in easy abundance is people and dirty coal. Neither is the asset they're made out to be.

If I talk about coal, people will start equating my statements with a political angle. This is not a platform for politics, I'm not making any allegations on anyone.

I do believe that the coal industry sees the cultural shift toward cleaner energy and global warming solutions as a threat to their interests.

Many coal-fired power plants are being decommissioned or switched over to natural gas, but that takes a long time.

The modern city consists of...dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise.

Not only are utilities switching from coal and oil to gas, but also trucking, schoolbuses, garbage trucks, and even taxi fleets.

My grandfather, who brought me up, was a coal miner. I visited the mines with him. I remember it vividly. It was horrible. I'm glad I didn't go into the family business.

I don't think you can make America great again by trying to go back to an old coal-based manufacturing economy that doesn't really exist anymore.

Here in the United States, we have between 250 and 300 years of a coal supply. That is more than the amount of recoverable oil contained in the entire world.

One point I like to stress is that we should think of coal, oil, natural gas, and nuclear, as clean energy.

It doesn't matter how many solar panels you install if you don't simultaneously shut down coal and gas burners.

The industrial stomach cannot live without coal; industry is a carbonivorous animal and must have its proper food.

The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.

When you're directing, you're right at the coal face, always exhausted, often emotional - and I'll enjoy being a couple of steps back from that and simply helping where I can.

I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.

I believe that humanity now is desperately calling for new ideas. These new ideas must come from spiritual teachers and artists, from poets and philosophers, from educators and ecologists, from postal clerks and miners and traffic cops and nurses and waiters and musicians and cooks and cleaners and from...Regular People Everywhere. That is to say, from YOU.

Opening up of the coal mining and mineral sector at the same time has been a very positive step towards self-reliance.

If you've seen Mary Poppins and The Grinch, come to the Booth Theater and let me shove a little coal down your stocking.

The damages of our present agriculture all come from the determination to use the life of the soil as if it were an extractable resource like coal.

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

I've done everything imaginable as a mother and a coal miner's daughter to create a brighter future for our children, and it fell on deaf ears.

Governments need to be seriously sceptical about whether new coal provides a good deal for their citizens.

Dusty, dark, cold, and hard, coal has no beauty of its own, but when it is consummated by fire it is beautiful and becomes what it was designed to be.

I dont know whether you've ever looked into a miner's eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you've ever seen. I think perhaps that's why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.

I strongly support an 'all-of-the-above' energy policy that includes additional development of wind, clean coal, and bio-fuels.

If you're serious about climate targets, you don't build and expand the oil sands and move from coal-fired electricity to inefficient fracked gas.