Coal Quotes

411 Coal quotes by 314 unique authors

The average life expectancy of a celebrity is 20 years less than someone working in a coal mine. — Unknown Author
It's not as though we can keep burning coal in our power plants. Coal is a finite resource, too. We must find alternatives, and it's… — Elon Musk
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… — George Jean Nathan
Burning carbon-based substances like oil, gas, and especially coal, produces billions of tons of extra carbon dioxide each year. Methane gas from cows and pigs… — Bill Nye
Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this… — Barack Obama
Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all. — T. Boone Pickens
I know I'm not a coal miner, but I do long hours and I never complain, and there is nowhere else I'd rather be. So,… — Daniel Radcliffe
I remember being very influenced by 'Taxi Driver', and also Tommy Lee Jones in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' a little bit. — Sam Rockwell
I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. My dad got his first… — Ann Romney
First, by 2020, North America will be energy independent by taking full advantage of our oil and coal and gas and nuclear and renewables. — Mitt Romney
I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work. — William Shatner
Some argue we should get coal, oil and gas out of the ground as quickly as possible, build more pipelines and make as much money… — David Suzuki
I'd like to say that right now, in the last few years, the Democrats have been closer - have been more pro-environment. The coal industry… — Ted Turner
The poet, distracted by politics, asks of poetry that it make itself useful like metal or flour, that it get ready to stain its face… — Eduardo Galeano
the fact that they stole their whole shtick from Woody Guthrie and the coal-mining bards. While the alternative nation meows about personal fashion angst, the… — Jim Goad
That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons… — Ray Bradbury
We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature’s inexhaustible sources of energy--sun, wind… — Thomas A. Edison
The egg is white though the hen is black as coal...Out of evil comes good, through the great goodness of God. — Charles Spurgeon
I was left alone there in the company of the orchids, roses and violets, which, like people waiting beside you who do not know you,… — Marcel Proust
The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings,… — Barbara Kingsolver
Suttree stood among the screaming leaves and called the lightning down. It cracked and boomed about and he pointed out the darkened heart within him… — Cormac McCarthy
How could people, I wondered for the ten thousandth useless time, how could people who had loved so dearly come to such a wilderness; and… — Dick Francis
Writing imaginative tales for the young is like sending coals to Newcastle. For coals. — Neil Gaiman
Except for when I was very little and thought that being an "engineer" meant he drove a train. Then I imagined him in the seat… — Nicole Krauss
When microorganisms die, they make oil; when huge timbers fall, they make coal. But everything here was pure, unadulterated rubbish that didn't make anything. Where… — Haruki Murakami

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