Writing is hard for every last one of us—straight white men included. Coal mining is harder. Do you think miners stand around… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
During the Gold Rush, most would-be miners lost money, but people who sold them picks, shovels, tents and blue-jeans (Levi Strauss) made… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
The strike of the miners in Arizona was one of the most remarkable strikes in the history of the American labor movement.… — Mary Harris Jones Copy Share Image
Mathematics may be likened to a large rock whose interior composition we wish to examine. The older mathematicians appear as persevering stone… — Howard Whitley Eves Copy Share Image
“A society must create lots of sunshine for its miners as they need the sun most! And ‘to be remembered, to be… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I could have been a Judge, but I never had the Latin for the judgin'. I never had it, so I'd had… — Peter Cook Copy Share Image
I like the copious, shapeless, warm, not so very clever, but extremely easy and rather coarse aspect of things; the talk of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
My administration will put our coal miners and our steel workers back to work. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
In isolation I ruthlessly plow the deep silences, seeking my opportunities like a miner seeking veins of treasures. In what shallow glimmering… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I'm wearing pants, for f---'s sake. Lay off. I mean, it's not like I'm a f---ing lead miner. There are harder jobs… — Jon Hamm Copy Share Image
Think about all of the families where the father is a doctor and the son is a doctor or generations of coal… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
“Honey, it isn’t democracy that runs this country. Capitalism rules. It does no good to reason with the capitalists or their politicians.… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
My father was a mailman. His father was a coal miner. My mother's mother could barely speak English. And their son today… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
When you write, you lay out a line of words. The line of words is a miner's pick, a wood carver's gouge,… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I don't meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers. — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
All in all I'd rather have been a judge than a miner. And what's more, being a miner, as soon as you… — Peter Cook Copy Share Image
I want the coal miners, who've been American heroes, who kept the lights put on for black people and white people for… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Well, I'll tell you, one of things I'm proud of is for someone from Southern California, who didn't grow up around coal… — Hilda Solis Copy Share Image
“He who thinks in a sunny garden about the miners who work in the dark galleries of mines will understand so perfectly… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
After the miners' rally, when I saw how emotional everyone got when I sang, I thought I might get somewhere with singing — Aselin Debison 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
