When a miner looks at the rope that is to lower him into the deep mine, he may coolly say, "I have… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
“There were eruptions against the convict labor system in the South, in which prisoners were leased in slave labor to corporations, used… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
It's hard for me to believe that just my words on the page are enough. I ought to be out physically keeping… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
Neither you nor I nor anybody else knows what makes a mathematician tick. It is not a question of cleverness. I know… — Louis J. Mordell Copy Share Image
“What the hell’s the matter with you men? Are you cowards as well as stupid? You boys make me sick. I’m done… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
“Well, honey, it’s capitalism that brings out the meanness and greed,” says I. “Our founding fathers did a decent job of framing… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
I was really shocked after all of this talk about coal miners and all of this talk about Buy America, the Republicans… — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
I have been working. I've been blessed to have shared a movie in the north of Chile called 'The 33,' with Gabriel… — Cote de Pablo Copy Share Image
“Since the 1300s, this job had been performed by members of a small group of families, all living in the hills near… — Robert M. Edsel Copy Share Image
When we ask what ought to be the relative remunerations of a nurse or a butcher, or a coal miner and a… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. Where the thing you… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is a pity that so many Americans today think of the Indian as a romantic or comic figure in American history… — Felix S. Cohen Copy Share Image
Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm on the side of miners and their families. And I'll never walk away. — Amy McGrath Copy Share Image
All artists as a type seem to suffer a great deal, but then so do miners. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
I could write about coal miners in Northern Pennsylvania, and people would ask if I was writing about my dad. — Owen King Copy Share Image
Then came the day at the bottom of the mine when a timber cracked and the men started craying. Miners were praying… — Jimmy Cliff Copy Share Image
He that in ye mine of knowledge deepest diggeth, hath, like every other miner, ye least breathing time, and must sometimes at… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
I don't think that all the coal miners - or even more realistically, say, the truck drivers whose jobs may be put… — Oren Etzioni Copy Share Image
Our view is that the very best data miners or statisticians can earn as much as the very best golfers or tennis… — Anthony Goldbloom Copy Share Image
The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win. — Mother Jones Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I learned in the Marines to leave no one behind, but after 34 years in Washington, Mitch McConnell left our coal miners… — Amy McGrath Copy Share Image
I've spent my whole working life standing up for workers. Didn't matter if it was the two trapped miners at Beaconsfield or… — Bill Shorten Copy Share Image
There are a lot of regulations that are really just crushing jobs. Look at the coal miners in the Rust Belt that… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
The business manager was doing fine back in his office while they were out on the line, hungry. And, so they started… — Richard Grimes Copy Share Image
My dad played for a coal-mining team in eastern Ohio; he was a very good pitcher. If he hadn't hurt his arm,… — Phil Niekro Copy Share Image
“I go back to the union man and say, “Sir, this is a house of God, not a proper place for a… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I dont know whether you've ever looked into a miner's eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
My maternal grandma was a tough, tough lady and a stern woman, who lost her husband young and raised six kids by… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
We can decide that the presence of cancer-causing substances in our air, water, and food is too expensive. A 2009 study, for… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share Image
The hardest thing I've had to overcome was being from my small coal-mining town of Big Stone Gap, Virginia. My mother was… — Thomas Jones Copy Share Image
Tourism is important because it can create sustainable local economies. I'd much rather have 1,000 tourists going up the Tambopata than 1,000 gold miners. — Frans Lanting Copy Share Image
I had a lovely time growing up. But I was very aware of the miners' strike going on, friends' families collapsing, and… — John Tiffany Copy Share Image
“Writing is hard…Coal mining is harder. Do you think miners stand around all day talking about how hard it is to mine… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Here, are the stiffening hills, here, the rich cargo Congealed in the dark arteries, Old veins That hold Glamorgan's blood. The midnight… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
