Mining Quotes

• The mining industry might make wealth and power for a few men and women, but the many would always be smashed and battered beneath its giant treads.

  Katharine Susannah Prichard

  Men, Giants, Might

  Katharine Susannah Prichard (1983). “The Roaring Nineties: A Story of the Gold Fields of Western Australia”

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• Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission.

  Stewart Udall

  Uranium Mining, Energy, Environment

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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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• We are a very big mining country and historically have been exporters of raw minerals. There is no particular reason why we should not be processing those further.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Country, Reason Why, Should

  Source: www.gov.za

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• Writing is like mining for gold hidden in the hillsides of your mind.

  David Baboulene

  Writing, Mind, Gold

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• My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company.

  Eva Herzigova

  Mother, Father, Uranium Mining

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• Seeking those elusive individuals is like mining for rare gems. It will take hard work, patience, and a persistent attitude. To find that rich seam of colourful stones, you will have to chip through dirt and rock. You will have to learn how to hold rubble in your hands and see the fortune inside.

  Chris Murray

  Attitude, Hard Work, Rocks

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• Mining asteroids will ultimately benefit humanity on and off the Earth in a multitude of ways.

  Peter Diamandis

  Humanity, Benefits, Earth

  "Asteroid Impacts Over Russia - Another Larger Rock Passing Very Close to Earth" by Peter Diamandis, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2013.

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• Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality.

  John Gardner

  Art, Reality, Thinking

  John Gardner, Stewart O'Nan (1994). “On writers and writing”, Addison-Wesley Longman

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• 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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• What strip mining is to nature the art market has become to culture.

  Robert Hughes

  Art, Culture

  Robert Hughes (2015). “The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes”, p.95, Vintage

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• 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.

  Benigno Aquino III

  Uranium Mining, Gold, World

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• There are as many forms of memory as there are ways of perceiving, and every one of them is worth mining for inspiration.

  Twyla Tharp

  Memories, Inspiration, Way

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Coal, Burning, Earth

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• Art is a kind of mining," he said. "The artist a variety of prospector searching for the sparkling silver of meaning in the earth.

  Jane Urquhart

  Art, Uranium Mining, Kind

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• It's a mining town in lotus land.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Land, Hollywood, Lotuses

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (1994). “The Love of the Last Tycoon: The Authorized Text”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• It's a business. If I could make more money down in the zinc mines I'd be mining zinc.

  Roger Maris

  Zinc, Uranium Mining, More Money

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• I look at it this way... For centuries now, man has done everything he can to destroy, defile, and interfere with nature: clear-cutting forests, strip-mining mountains, poisoning the atmosphere, over-fishing the oceans, polluting the rivers and lakes, destroying wetlands and aquifers... so when nature strikes back, and smacks him on the head and kicks him in the nuts, I enjoy that. I have absolutely no sympathy for human beings whatsoever. None. And no matter what kind of problem humans are facing, whether it's natural or man-made, I always hope it gets worse.

  George Carlin

  Ocean, Cutting, Men

  "George Carlin: Life Is Worth Losing". TV Special, www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• The economic transmission of power without wires is of all-surpassing importance to man. By its means he will gain complete mastery of the air, the sea and the desert. It will enable him to dispense with the necessity of mining, pumping, transporting and burning fuel, and so do away with innumerable causes of sinful waste.

  Nikola Tesla

  Mean, Men, Air

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Wireless Tesla”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• We accept it as normal that people who have never been on the land, who have no history or connection to the country, may legally secure the right to come in and, by the very nature of their enterprises, leave in their wake a cultural and physical landscape utterly transformed and desecrated. What's more, in granting such mining concessions, often initially for trivial sums to speculators from distant cities, companies cobbled together with less history than my dog, the government places no cultural or market value on the land itself.

  Wade Davis

  Country, Dog, Cities

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• Any relation to the land, the habit of tilling it, or mining it, or even hunting on it, generates the feeling of patriotism. He who keeps shop on it, or he who merely uses it as a support to his desk and ledger, or to his manufactory, values it less.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hunting, Land, Shopping

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.216, Library of America

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• We often sometimes forget that- prior to the invention of removable pipe- there really were no English Bibles. We have treasures, we have Bibles in every size and shape and color. But there's a failure to recognize what's contained inside the cover of the Bible. We grow apathetic, and I think that the issue is reacting to the Word of God. Not just carrying, but get back into the Word of God and then get the Word of God into us. It's all about mining the scripture, memorizing the scripture, and meditating with our scripture.

  Hank Hanegraaff

  Thinking, Issues, Color

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• I simply go with what works. And what works is the healthy skepticism embodied in the scientific method. Believe me, if the Bible had ever been shown to be a rich source of scientific answers and enlightenment, we would be mining it daily for cosmic discovery.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Religious, Believe, Science

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2000). “The Sky is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist”, Doubleday Books

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• It must not be thought that it is ever possible to reach the interior earth by any perseverance in mining: both because the exterior earth is too thick, in comparison with human strength; and especially because of the intermediate waters, which would gush forth with greater impetus, the deeper the place in which their veins were first opened; and which would drown all miners.

  Rene Descartes

  Perseverance, Science, Water

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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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