Mining Quotes

He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit. (Barbara Castle)
Ten years ago I was not heavily involved in the film world but on reflection it was a boom time with the mineral boom happening, so there was immense growth for industrial training films, documentaries to do with the mining, and the outback world. View quote
Ann Macbeth
Every individual, from the common mechanic, that works in wood or clay, to the prime minister that regulates with the dash of his pen the agriculture, the breeding of cattle, the mining, or the commerce of a nation, will perform his business the better, the better he understands the nature of things, and the more his understanding is enlightened. View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say
The central industry of modern civilisation, tending, because of its control over materials, to spread into and ultimately incorporate older industries such as mining, smelting, oil- refining, textiles, rubber, building, and even agriculture in respect to fertilizers and food processing. View quote
John Desmond Bernal
The fate of the soil system depends on society's willingness to intervene in the market place, and to forego some of the short-term benefits that accrue from 'mining' the soil so that soil quality and fertility can be maintained over the longer term. View quote
Eugene Odum
Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
If there's one thing I really want for my birthday, that is for the mining company not to mine my daddy's reserve. View quote
Bindi Irwin
Where I lived, it was a cold mining place, a village called Dunston. The only time you saw a Rolls-Royce was when somebody died. View quote
Brian Johnson
Art is a kind of mining," he said. "The artist a variety of prospector searching for the sparkling silver of meaning in the earth. View quote
Jane Urquhart
My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company. View quote
Eva Herzigova
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)
The line that connects the bombing of civilian populations to the mountain removed by strip mining ... to the tortured prisoner seems to run pretty straight. We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself. View quote
Wendell Berry
Agriculture is the most destructive industry that we have. More than coal mining and other extractive industries. View quote
Allan Savory
Advertising isnt just the disruption of aesthetics, the insults to your intelligence and the interruption of your train of thought. At every company that sells ads, a significant portion of their engineering team spends their day tuning data mining, writing better code to collect all your personal data. View quote
Jan Koum
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. View quote
Margot Kidder
The coal mining industry is very destructive and it doesn't have to be. View quote
Kevin Richardson
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. View quote
Tom Udall
Companies earn their profits by exploiting their environment. Mining and oil companies exploit the physical environment; social media companies exploit the social environment. This is particularly nefarious because social media companies influence how people think and behave without them even being aware of it. View quote
George Soros
Instead of speeding up growth, colonial activities such as mining and cash-crop farming speeded up the decay of "traditional” African life. In many parts of the continent, vital aspects of culture were adversely affected, nothing better was substituted, and only a lifeless shell was left. View quote
Walter Rodney
And thirdly, [we have] to defeat the absurd pantheist ideologies that believe that the walls are gods and the air is a god. In the end, to return to such primitive forms of religiosity where one is told, "don't touch this hill because it is an Apu and is filled with millennia-old spirit,” and who knows what else. Well, if we reach that point, we wouldn't do anything, much less mining. Don't touch those fish because they are creatures of god and expressions of the god Poseidon. We would return to this, let's say, primitive animism. Right? I think that we need more education [of these people], but that is long-term work that just can't be fixed right away. View quote
Alan García
He was not a man who prattled readily, especially in a foreign tongue. He gave the impression that each word was excavated from his interior by some up-to-date process of mining. (P. G. Wodehouse)
Coal mining is tough. Acting is just tedious. View quote
Johnny Knoxville
The declared object of deflation was the restoration of the gold standard at pre-war parity. Its actual effect has been to create unemployment by the restriction of industrial credit. By the lever of unemployment it has forced down wages and has thus facilitated the return to gold through the reduction of prices. An incidental effect has been to transfer purchasing power from the workers, whose wages have been reduced, to the bondholders, whose interest has remained the same. It has also doubled the real burden of Debt since 1920, and was largely responsible for the mining lock-out last year, by the reduction in terms of sterling of the money which we receive for coal sold abroad. Deflation, in fact, has been responsible for a sinister catalogue of disasters which can be substantiated in detailed argument that has never yet been rebutted. View quote
Oswald Mosley
... there is nothing that the most prominent men in the Liberal party more earnestly desire than that labour representation, direct labour representation, shall be as large as possible... It is sometimes said to me, "Oh! but you are against State intervention in matters of great social reform". At this time of the day it would be absurd for any man who has mastered all the Mining Regulations Acts, the Factories Acts, the great mass of regulation which affects trade; it would be absurd for any man to stand on a platform and say he was entirely against State intervention. I, for my part, have never taken that position... My own belief is that in the matters of hours and of wages for adult male labour the interference would be a bad and mischievous thing... that in such matters, for example, as housing of the poor and so forth, the proper machinery through which to carry out these operations is municipal and not Parliamentary. View quote
John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn
Another danger is that commercial pressures of one sort or another will divert the attention of the best thinkers from real innovation to exploitation of the current fad, from prospecting to mining a known lode. View quote
Dennis Ritchie