Coal Quotes
411 Coal quotes by 314 unique authors
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So many humans. So many colours. They keep triggering inside me. They harass my memory. I see them tall in their heaps, all mounted on…
— Markus Zusak
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It's not that he lacked poetry. But his poetry was of the body, not the mind. He spoke it in the way he moved, the…
— Meg Rosoff
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For Adam, screwed-up bonding thing or not, I’d wait forever. “Really?” he asked in a tone I’d never heard from him before. Softer. Vulnerable. Adam…
— Patricia Briggs
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Somehow it always comes back to coal at school.
— Suzanne Collins
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You see, women are like fires, like flames. Some women are like candles, bright and friendly. Some are like single sparks, or embers, like fireflies…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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I'd like to take a walk far back in the flinty hills and search for a souvenir, an old double-bitted ax stuck deep in the…
— Wilson Rawls
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But don't worry; as I've been saying - and this has been very clever of me, I'm sure you'll agree - if you put enough…
— Suzanne Collins
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Dusty, dark, cold, and hard, coal has no beauty of its own, but when it is consummated by fire it is beautiful and becomes what…
— Frederica Mathewes-Green
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The mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness; this power arises from…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Give me a hot coal glowing bright red, Give me an ember sizzling with heat, These are the jewels made from my beak. We fly…
— Kathryn Lasky
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I’d noticed that his eyes were black – coal black.
— Stephenie Meyer
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See that little girl? I wanted to marry her mother, but she ran off with a coal miner," "A coal miner? Why did she want…
— Suzanne Collins
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Years ago, when he was around fourteen, he'd been all hipped on the idea of going to India. He read books about people sitting on…
— James A. Baldwin
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L.A. burns, and so many other cities smolder, waiting for the hose that will flood gasoline over the coals, and we listen to politicians who…
— Dennis Lehane
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Like a battalion of marines at roll call, her neck hairs marshaled to five-alarm status. She stumbled back to her desk, jerked open the botton…
— Lori Wilde
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If only I had some grease I could fix some kind of a light," Ma considered. "We didn't lack for light when I was a…
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
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He is very fond of me, almost too fond. I could do with less caressing and more rationality. I should like to be less of…
— Anne Bronte
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Never did he once consider directing his hatred toward the hunters. Such an emotion would have destroyed him ... His subconscious knew what his min…
— Toni Morrison
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Inside every lump of coal there's a diamond waiting to get out.
— Terry Pratchett
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Coal, oil and gas are called fossil fuels, because they are mostly made of the fossil remains of beings from long ago. The chemical energy…
— Carl Sagan
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Tie your heart at night to mine, love, and both will defeat the darkness like twin drums beating in the forest against the heavy wall…
— Pablo Neruda
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...as nervous as a bird in a coal mine.
— Jim Butcher
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Guess what it is that turns plants to coal. Pressure. Guess what it is that turns limestone to marble. Pressure. Guess what it is that…
— Franny Billingsley
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...for though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.
— Thomas Paine
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Listen to th' wind wutherin' round the house," she said. "You could bare stand up on the moor if you was out on it tonight."…
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
Who Wrote These Coal Quotes
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