Coal Quotes

An evil person is like a piece of coal: if it doesn't burn, it blackens you. (Anacharsis)
This island is almost made of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish in Great Britain at the same time. View quote
Aneurin Bevan
I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal. View quote
Peter Cook
I hope that your committee will not permit doubt as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation (the Guffey Coal Control Bill) View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink. View quote
George Jean Nathan
Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the rocks, and a stimulating climate, all shower their blessings upon man. View quote
Ellsworth Huntington
It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port. View quote
Henry Mayhew
For some reason, on that sparkling afternoon last week, I actually saw the coal that was passing by and it set me to thinking how important coal was to our everyday lives when I was a little boy. View quote
Nick Clooney
How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life? View quote
Charles Lindbergh
It has often been said that, if the human species fails to make a go of it here on the Earth, some other species will take over the running. In the sense of developing intelligence this is not correct. We have or soon will have, exhausted the necessary physical prerequisites so far as this planet is concerned. With coal gone, oil gone, high-grade metallic ores gone, no species however competent can make the long climb from primitive conditions to high-level technology. This is a one-shot affair. If we fail, this planetary system fails so far as intelligence is concerned. View quote
Fred Hoyle
One day work is hard, and another day it is easy; but if I had waited for inspiration I am afraid I should have done nothing. The miner does not sit at the top of the shaft waiting for the coal to come bubbling up to the surface. One must go deep down, and work out every vein carefully. (Arthur Sullivan)
Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell. View quote
Philip James Bailey
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. View quote
Michael Foot
And every one of them words rang true and glowed like burnin' coal. Pourin' off of every page, like it was written in my soul from me to you... View quote
Bob Dylan
Variable but forecastable renewables (wind and solar cells) are very reliable when integrated with each other, existing supplies and demand. For example, three German states were more than 30 percent wind-powered in 2007-and more than 100 percent in some months. Mostly renewable power generally needs less backup than utilities already bought to combat big coal and nuclear plants' intermittence. View quote
Amory Lovins
Artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are supersensitive. They keel over like canaries in coal mines filled with poison gas, long before more robust types realize that any danger is there. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
Don't be afraid of pressure. Pressure is what transforms a lump of coal into a diamond. View quote
Nicky Gumbel
I could write about coal miners in Northern Pennsylvania, and people would ask if I was writing about my dad. View quote
Owen King
Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
Rich countries don't need as many children. We used to need kids to work in the fields as farm hands, to crawl on their bellies into coal mines. Well, kids are more like luxury objects now. View quote
Todd G. Buchholz
There's nothing that can replicate the smoky flavor of char, so when I've got the hankering for it, I tell my wife that I'm taking care of dinner. I have three different types of barbecues - a coal, gas and smoker - so I can experiment a lot. (Guy Fieri)
These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em. View quote
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Agriculture is the most destructive industry that we have. More than coal mining and other extractive industries. View quote
Allan Savory
Natural gas is the one fuel that we have that's affordable, it's scaleable, it can replace coal over time, it can replace imported oil, can create American jobs. View quote
Aubrey McClendon
We must not let ourselves be swept off our feet in horror at the danger of nuclear power. Nuclear power is not infinitely dangerous. It's just dangerous, much as coal mines, petrol repositories, fossil-fuel burning and wind turbines are dangerous. View quote
David J. C. MacKay