Miners Quotes - Page 3

• I SEE thee better in the dark, I do not need a light. The love of thee a prism be Excelling violet. I see thee better for the years That hunch themselves between, The miner’s lamp sufficient be To nullify the mine. And in the grave I see thee best— Its little panels be A-glow, all ruddy with the light I held so high for thee! What need of day to those whose dark Hath so surpassing sun, It seem it be continually At the meridian?

  Emily Dickinson

  Dark, Years, Light

  Emily Dickinson (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.470, Harvard University Press

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• I wrote "Miner's Prayer" after [grandfather] died. I'd gone back to his funeral, and he died in 1979. And I came back to California, and I think a couple of weeks after that funeral wrote that song thinking about him, his life.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Song, Prayer, Couple

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Working in the tea fields under a beautiful sunshine is the dream of all the miners.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Beautiful, Dream, Sunshine

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• 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.

  Frans Lanting

  Important, Gold, Tourism

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• 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.

  Jimmy Reid

  Fighting, Years, Choices

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• I like the copious, shapeless, warm, not so very clever, but extremely easy and rather coarse aspect of things; the talk of men in clubs and public-houses; of miners half naked in drawers the forthright, perfectly unassuming, and without end in view except dinner, love, money and getting along tolerably; that which is without great hopes, ideals, or anything of that kind; what is unassuming except to make a tolerably, good job of it. I like all that.

  Virginia Woolf

  Jobs, Clever, Men

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.755, Wordsworth Editions

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• When we ask what ought to be the relative remunerations of a nurse or a butcher, or a coal miner and a judge at a high court, of the deep sea diver of the cleaner of sewers, of the organiser of a new industry and a jockey, of the inspector of taxes and the inventor of a life-saving drug, of the jet-pilot or the professor of mathematics, the appeal to 'social justice' does not give us the slightest help in deciding.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Sea, Coal Miners, Justice

  "Law, Legislation and Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 9 : 'Social' or Distributive Justice, 1973.

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• You'd rather own gold; not the miner

  Kevin O'Leary

  Gold

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• The national strike of the miners in 1972 performed, I believe, a great service, not only to the miners, but the people in Britain today who wanted coal.

  Michael Foot

  Believe, People, Coal

  Michael Foot's speech at the House of Commons, 1974.

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• My desire to get here [Parliament] was like miners'coal dust, it was under my fingers and I couldn't scrub it out.

  Betty Boothroyd

  Dust, Desire, Coal

  Quoted in Glenys Kinnock and Fiona Millar (eds) By Faith and Daring (1993).

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• Bergman was the first to bring metaphysics - religion, death, existentialism - to the screen. ... But the best of Bergman is the way he speaks of women, of the relationship between men and women. He's like a miner digging in search of purity.

  Bertrand Tavernier

  Men, Digging, Way

  "Ingmar Bergman, Master Filmmaker, Dies at 89" by Mervyn Rothstein, www.nytimes.com. July 30, 2007.

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• The first horror movie I saw, in first or second grade, was My Bloody Valentine [1981], where there's a deranged killer in a miner mask stalking a small coal town.

  Christopher Bollen

  Valentine, Towns, Coal

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Neither you nor I nor anybody else knows what makes a mathematician tick. It is not a question of cleverness. I know many mathematicians who are far abler than I am, but they have not been so lucky. An illustration may be given by considering two miners. One may be an expert geologist, but he does not find the golden nuggets that the ignorant miner does.

  Louis J. Mordell

  Math, Two, Illustration

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• In South Africa, they dig for diamonds. Tons of earth are moved to find a little pebble not as large as a little fingernail. The miners are looking for the diamonds, not the dirt. They are willing to lift all the dirt in order to find the jewels. In daily life, people forget this principle and become pessimists because there is more dirt than diamonds. When trouble comes, don’t be frightened by the negatives. Look for the positives and dig them out. They are so valuable it doesn't matter if you have to handle tons of dirt.

  Robert Ringer

  Jewels, Order, People

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• Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for me. Therefore the poet brings his poem; the shepherd, his lamb; the farmer, corn; the miner, a stone; the painter, his picture; the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Positive, Girl

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (191?). “Society and solitude, Letters and social aims”

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• The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.

  Charles Darwin

  Vegetarianism, World, Vegan

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• It is a pity that so many Americans today think of the Indian as a romantic or comic figure in American history without contemporary significance. In fact, the Indian plays much the same role in our society that the Jews played in Germany. Like the miner’s canary, the Indian marks the shift from fresh air to poison gas in our political atmosphere; and our treatment of Indians, even more than our treatment of other minorities, reflects the rise and fall in our democratic faith.

  Felix S. Cohen

  Fall, Thinking, Air

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• I am not strictly speaking mad, for my mind is absolutely normal in the intervals, and even more so than before. But during the attacks it is terrible - and then I lose consciousness of everything. But that spurs me on to work and to seriousness, as a miner who is always in danger makes haste in what he does.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Mad, Mind, Normal

  Vincent van Gogh (1971). “Van Gogh's "diary"; the artist's life in his own words and art”

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• 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.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Spiritual, Teacher, Believe

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• 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.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  People, Usual, Offensive

  "Turkey’s Many Occupational Hazards" by Ozan Varol, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 16, 2014.

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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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• When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Father, Blue, Montana

  "Ehrenreich, The Prey and the Predators". Tomdispatch Interview, www.tomdispatch.com. June 4, 2006.

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• The CM stands for Cole Miner.

  CM Punk

  Wwe

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• 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.

  Bill Shorten

  Construction Workers, Two, Matter

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I was really shocked after all of this talk about coal miners and all of this talk about Buy America, the Republicans and the House of Representatives gutted health care and pension protections for coal miners and removed the Buy America provision that had been put in the bill in a bipartisan basis.

  Claire McCaskill

  Coal Miners, America, House

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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