Coal Quotes

411 Coal quotes by 314 unique authors

Yes, I heard my people singing!-in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning… — Paul Robeson
Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known that charcoal burns… — Harry Houdini
Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose dubious brightness falsifies… — Blaise Cendrars
People want to avoid the past. I suppose that's natural. When we tally up all we've said and done over the years, despite the wonderful… — Jeffery Deaver
Oil and coal? Of course, it's a fungible commodity and they don't flag, you know, the molecules, where it's going and where it's not [...].… — Sarah Palin
My father and brothers were coal miners. — Merle Travis
Who deserves more credit than the wife of a coal miner? Mother was one. — Merle Travis
Chile is not a rich country in terms of gas, or oil or coal, but we are extremely rich in terms of the energies of… — Sebastian Pinera
It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice. — William Penn
Even if we can solve the carbon problem for coal, it is still a non-renewable resource. At some point, coal supplies will drop. — Van Jones
The coal plants that will be built from 2005 to 2030 will release as much carbon dioxide as all of the coal burned since the… — Joseph J. Romm
There's no such thing as clean coal. It's non-existent. Theoretically, it might be possible, many years from now, to come up with a way to… — Al Gore
Writing is hard for every last one of us—straight white men included. Coal mining is harder. Do you think miners stand around all day talking… — Cheryl Strayed
For over 15 years, through the clean coal programs of the Department of Energy, the Federal Government has been a solid partner, working jointly with… — Tim Holden
You can't mine coal without machine guns. — Unknown Author
But all the wickedness in the world which man may do or think is no more to the mercy of God than a live coal… — William Langland
As a people, we have the problem of making our forests outlast this generation, or iron outlast this century, and our coal the next; not… — William Howard Taft
By common consent of the nations, gold and silver are the only true measure of value. They are the necessary regulators of trade. I have… — Hugh McCulloch
It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man who, not being able to find any other fault… — Mark Twain
Electricity is derived from many non-renewable energy sources like oil, natural gas and coal. — Lamar S. Smith
I don't know (and I guess I never will while I'm alive) just how thick my old skull is, but I do know that it… — Unknown Author
The profits of oil, coal, and natural gas companies will have to yield to the imperative of sustaining life on earth. — Robert Pollin
The fossil fuel industry will inevitably have to experience major cutbacks and, over the longer term, near-total demise. There is simply no choice in the… — Robert Pollin
Having therefore no foreign establishments, either colonial or military, the ships of war of the United States, in war, will be like land birds, unable… — Alfred Thayer Mahan
I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday). — Billy Joe Shaver

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