Coal Quotes

411 Coal quotes by 314 unique authors

Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the black iron frame… — Lewis Mumford
We used to be a source of fuel; we are increasingly becoming a sink. These supplies of foreign liquid fuel are no doubt vital to… — Winston Churchill
Electric power is everywhere present in unlimited quantities and can drive the world's machinery without the need of coal, oil, gas, or any other of… — Nikola Tesla
Coal is a portable climate. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
This curious faith is predicated on the notion that we will soon develop unlimited new sources of energy: domestic oil fields, shale oil, gasified coal,… — Wendell Berry
The use of plant oil as fuel may seem insignificant today. But such products can in time become just as important as kerosene and these… — Rudolf Diesel
It is sunlight in modified form which turns all the windmills and water wheels and the machinery which they drive. It is the energy derived… — John Harvey Kellogg
Mankind has always drawn from outside sources of energy. This island was the first to harness coal and steam. But our present sources stand in… — Frederick Soddy
Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. . . . Because I'm capping greenhouse gases, coal power plants,… — Barack Obama
So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can. It's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a… — Barack Obama
Coal is My Worst Nightmare. — Steven Chu
Coal makes us sick. Oil makes us sick. It's global warming. It's ruining our country. It's ruining our world. — Harry Reid
The misconception that there is serious disagreement among scientists about global warming is actually an illusion that has been deliberately fostered by a relatively small… — Al Gore
Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets. — Jimmy Breslin
Until the dead are buried they change somewhat in appearance each day. The color change in Caucasian races is from white to yellow, to yellow-green,… — Ernest Hemingway
Kids don't have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don't have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the looms of… — Utah Phillips
I worked at a factory owned by Germans, at coal pits owned by Frenchmen, and at a chemical plant owned by Belgians. There I discovered… — Nikita Khrushchev
It is government policy to phase out subsidies to nationalised industries. In line with this, the government hopes that the coal industry will be able… — Tony Benn
Even when nuclear power plants go horribly wrong, they do less damage to the planet and its people than coal-burning stations operating normally. — George Monbiot
Investing one cent more in oil, coal and gas is investing in the death of society, and the in the death of our children. — Kumi Naidoo
Two [Massachusetts coal burning power plants] remain: Brayton Point in the South Coast region and Mt. Tom, just down the road. Within the next four… — Deval Patrick
The hills and valleys of Heaven will be to those you now experience not as a copy is to an original, nor as the substitute… — C.S. Lewis
How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with… — Charles Lindbergh
Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of transporting… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think someone in the union has the right to a private vote, and that's why I'm anti-card check. I grew up in a union… — Jim Renacci

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