Coal Mining Quotes

• Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world, and which draws and develops a certain kind of man.

  Martin Cruz Smith

  Men, Culture, Coal

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• Coal mining is tough. Acting is just tedious.

  Johnny Knoxville

  Uranium Mining, Acting, Coal

  "The school of hard Knox" by J Rentilly, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2002.

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• Writing is hard for every last one of us—straight white men included. Coal mining is harder. Do you think miners stand around all day talking about how hard it is to mine for coal? They do not. They simply dig.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Writing, Men, Thinking

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.45, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.

  Tom Jones

  Father, Coal Miners, Class

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My father and brothers were coal miners.

  Merle Travis

  Brother, Father, Coal Miners

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• I report the assault on nature evidenced in coal mining that tears the tops off mountains and dumps them into rivers, sacrificing the health and lives of those in the river valleys to short-term profit, and I see a link between that process and the stock-market frenzy which scorns long-term investments-genuine savings-in favor of quick turnovers and speculative bubbles whose inevitable bursting leaves insiders with stuffed pockets and millions of small stockholders, pensioners, and employees out of work, out of luck, and out of hope.

  Bill Moyers

  Sacrifice, Rivers, Work Out

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• I grew up down in the hills of Virginia. I can be in Kentucky in 20 minutes, Tennessee in 20 minutes or in the state of West Virginia in 20 minutes. And it's down in the Appalachian Mountains, down there. And it's sort of a poorer country. Most of the livelihood is coal mining and logging, working in the woods and things like that. Most people has a hard life down that way.

  Ralph Stanley

  Country, Kentucky, Virginia

  Source: www.npr.org

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• If there were to be a Labor-Greens government, that would be the end of the Adani mine, that would be the end of coal mining in central Queensland, and that would be the end of their best shot at economic prosperity in the future.

  George Brandis

  Government, Would Be, Coal

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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

  Allan Savory

  Agriculture, Coal, Destructive

  "Could cows and sheep halt climate change and tackle rural poverty?" by Judith D Schwartz, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2013.

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• My father got a job at Bradford University in textiles. And he came for - I guess, you know, why do people immigrate? - like, for a better life to find, you know, a new world. And, you know, I think he always - he saw it as an opportunity. And so yeah so we came to this coal mining town in the north of England and that's where I grew up.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Jobs, Father, Opportunity

  "Aasif Mandvi On Life As A 'No Land's Man' And Impressing Jon Stewart". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 3, 2014.

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• The hardest thing I've had to overcome was being from my small coal-mining town of Big Stone Gap, Virginia. My mother was a coal miner for nineteen years, and the expectations of making it out of my town were slim to none.

  Thomas Jones

  Mother, Coal Miners, Virginia

  "Actor Thomas Q. Jones: Making it out of a small town and a positive perspective on failure". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• My father was a coal hewer from Goldthorpe, a coal-mining village in South Yorkshire. He played for the Yorkshire second team as an opening fast bowler - to me he was a gorgeously heroic man. He helped form a union and closed down the Barnsley seam because it was seeping gas, and saved many, many lives.

  Brian Blessed

  Team, Father, Men

  "My family values: Brian Blessed". Interview with Chris Hall, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2010.

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• the fact that they stole their whole shtick from Woody Guthrie and the coal-mining bards. While the alternative nation meows about personal fashion angst, the Appalachian nation still sings about unemployment.

  Jim Goad

  Fashion, Unemployment, Alternatives

  Jim Goad (1998). “The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies Hicks and White Trash Becames America's Scapegoats”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• Directing is a nice job. It's the best job for me. If i had to pay money to do it, I would do itIt's problematical. It's disapointing often. It's very challenging. It's frustrating as hell. It's extremely demanding and totally satisfying work. And if I wasn't doing this, I would have to do legitimate work for a living. There are guys out there really working for a living, cleaning streets or coal mining, teaching. Directing is playing. Acting.

  William Friedkin

  Jobs, Nice, Teaching

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• My dad played for a coal-mining team in eastern Ohio; he was a very good pitcher. If he hadn't hurt his arm, he probably would have got a shot somewhere. He hurt his arm one spring, didn't warm up good enough, couldn't throw a fastball anymore. Another coal miner taught him how to throw the knuckleball.

  Phil Niekro

  Hurt, Dad, Team

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• Not exactly. You see, Portia and I think that the coal miner thing's very overdone. No one will remember you in that. And we both see it has our job to make District 12 tributes unforgettable,' says Cinna. I'll be naked for sure, I think. 'So rather than focus on the coal mining itself, we're going to focus on the coal,' says Cinna. Naked and covered in black dust, i think. 'And what do we do with coal? We burn it,' says Cinna. 'You're not afraid of fire, are you, Katniss?' He sees my expression and grins.

  Suzanne Collins

  Jobs, Thinking, Fire

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• Growing up I played piano and I sang at a lot of weddings; I grew up in a very small town, a little coal-mining town in Virginia called Grundy. And my family was very sing-songy at home.

  Jayma Mays

  Growing Up, Home, Piano

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The commencement of coal mining at Parsa Kente is a milestone event in coal mining sector.

  Gautam Adani

  Events, Coal, Milestone

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• The point is, that the function of the novel seems to be changing; it has become an outpost of journalism; we read novels for information about areas of life we don't know - Nigeria, South Africa, the American army, a coal-mining village, coteries in Chelsea, etc. We read to find out what is going on. One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel - the quality of philosophy.

  Doris Lessing

  Philosophy, Army, Should Have

  Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers

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

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Home, House, Coal

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig”, p.5, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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