Top 984 Coal Mining Quotes & Sayings - Page 5
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Last updated on April 22, 2025.
From its founding, [Nevada] has always struggled to belong. It has had a series of masters--the mining industry, the railroads, the federal government, and now gaming and tourism--that have driven the state's economy and compelled its direction.
I've got the body of a model and the face of a coal miner.
I viewed black musicals before 'Jelly' as a form of cultural strip mining. The exterior remained, but all the culture that signified where the people had come from and their connection to the earth was absent.
If you want improvements in coal, you've got to keep people in the business.
A diamond is just a lump of coal that stuck to its job.
Somehow it always comes back to coal at school.
After all, game shows are not like working in a coal mine.
While I'm sure some millennials are concerned with the ethical issues involved in mining for diamonds, the main reason they steer clear of the gems is because, well, they're a dumb investment.
Inside every lump of coal there's a diamond waiting to get out.
Without a whole lot of pressure, a diamond is just a piece of coal.
Encouraging underground uranium mining on the Colorado Plateau um, the federal government was the only purchaser of uranium ore to try to manufacture uh, atomic bombs.
My dad was a coal miner in County Durham.
You can auction coal blocks. All natural resources of government should be auctioned.
The mining towns I describe in the 'Helium-3' novel series are not unlike Coalwood, but there is one major difference: Those towns, rather than being located in the Appalachian coalfields, are on the moon.
Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing.
Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
We're not going to be living in a world of abundant coal power in a hundred years.
As a continent, I think there are opportunities for Asia to accept imports of Wyoming coal.
India doesn't take responsibility for the problems that the world is facing because of thermal coal.
Cargo shipping, cruising, mining, oil drilling, fishing - all these industrial activities could expand to the Arctic, one of the last remaining wild places, and with potentially devastating consequences.
No one wants to stoke coal if he can regulate an oil valve instead.
The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
When it comes to global warming, coal is the gorilla in the room.
America was built on cheap and abundant coal.
To hell with the Constitution when people want coal!
A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job
Rumors of coal's demise may have been greatly exaggerated.
A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made good under pressure.
If there are questions that are unanswered by research, they will be answered by a strategy division, a data-mining group or someone else within the organization. We need to be more effective at collaborating with these groups.
Coal is absolutely critical to our nation's economic health and global competitiveness.
Social media is the ultimate canary in the coal mine
We played every bar, party, pub, hotel lounge, church hall, mining town - places that made Mad Max territory look like a Japanese garden.
Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
We didn't have movies in this little mining town. When I was 12 my mom took me to New York and I saw Bye Bye Birdie, with people singing and dancing, and that was it.
We need to work together to support common-sense solutions to establish and maintain regulatory certainty and predictability for the mining industry and reduce excessive, duplicative, and expensive permitting delays.
Economy does not consist in saving the coal, but in using the time while it burns.
The Philippines has vast minerals that are still untapped. It has one of the world's largest deposits of gold, nickel, copper and chromite. Through responsible mining, we intend to generate more revenues from the extraction of these resources.
I watch people throw aluminum cans in the trash, and I think of all the stories I've heard about the over-mining of aluminum, the erosion that happens, and the trees that fall down.
I certainly would like to see the war on coal come to an end.
The search which takes place in my studio might best be described as a mining operation, a vertical dig in which a number of discoveries are apt to surface from a single shaft.
Our goal in the '70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women: policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes.
We need to diversify our economy, but I also think we still have a future in coal.
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.
I'm like coal under pressure. I turn into a diamond.
Don't save the canary. Fix the coal mine.
Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
We need to invest in all energy sources, including coal and shale.
Coal is the single greatest threat to civilization and all life on our planet.
Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.
American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.
Writing was like digging coal. I sweat blood. The spell is on me.
You know, by the time you get to the fourth film in a franchise you're really mining for something different. You're really looking for a way to go about things that the audience hasn't already seen.
I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday).
Fossil fuels and mining is a short-term gambit. If we develop those resources at the expense of the environmental gold mine that is the Great Barrier Reef, we will all lose in the long run.
I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal.
My father and brothers were coal miners.
All renewables thus require a material throughput - from mining to processing to installing to disposing of the materials later as waste - that is orders of magnitude larger than for non-renewable energy sources.
Who deserves more credit than the wife of a coal miner? Mother was one.
I will fight for oil, coal and natural gas.
The closing of ash basins is really part of decommissioning a coal plant.
