Coal Quotes

411 Coal quotes by 314 unique authors

Once fire was discovered, the instinct for improvement made men bring food to it. First to dry it, then to put it on the coals… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The more you get past pain, the more it goes from coal to diamond. — Jodi Picoult
The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's… — Jeff Buckley
The Hellish and dismal cloud of...Coal...perpetually imminent over (London) ...that her inhabitants breathe nothing but impure and thick mist...corrupting the lungs and disordering the entire… — John Evelyn
The modern city consists of...dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise... — Alexis Carrel
...Senate Doc. # 259. The 65th congress(:)...The coal companies made between 100% and 7,856% on their capital stock during the war (to end all wars,… — Smedley Butler
Their bodies will be raised from the dead as vessels for the soul-vessels of wrath. The soul will breathe hell-fire, and smoke and coal will… — John Bunyan
Is not Fire a Body heated so hot as to emit Light copiously? For what else is a red hot Iron than Fire? And what… — Isaac Newton
Remember in 1973 the same science chatter said that the coming Ice Age is going to occur, we're going to lose millions of people. And… — Don Young
Further, the United States is moving ahead in the development of clean coal technology. There are vast coal reserves in our country, and when it… — Virgil Goode
To shipbrokers, coal was black gold. — Roald Dahl
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may well… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We have enough coal to last for 250 years, yet coal also prevents an environmental challenge. — George W. Bush
For when asceticism was carried out of monastic cells into everyday life, and began to dominate worldly morality, it did its part in building the… — Max Weber
Coal is good for humanity, coal is good for prosperity, coal is an essential part of our economic future, here in Australia, and right around… — Tony Abbott
If the Treasury were to fill old bottles with bank-notes, bury them at suitable depths in disused coal-mines which are then filled up to the… — John Maynard Keynes
Coal research and development provides huge benefits for the nation, and pay for itself many times over through taxes flowing back to the Treasury from… — Tim Holden
Sergio Trujillos choreography adds coals to the inferno, with movement that plain just doesnt stop. We know from Jersey Boys that he can capture this… — Richard Ouzounian
In short, what the living wage is really about is not living standards, or even economics, but morality. Its advocates are basically opposed to the… — Paul Krugman
And again it snowed, and again the sun came out. In the mornings on the way to the station Franklin counted the new snowmen that… — Steven Millhauser
It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening. They emptied a big tin dish… — Rudyard Kipling
Some types of environmental restoration projects are well-known restored wetlands, for instance, or coal mine reclamation projects. Recently though, larger dam removal projects have started,… — Matt Gonzalez
Even coal shimmers in the light — Jocelyn Murray
Leave the oil in the soil, leave the coal in the hole — Nnimmo Bassey
A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job — Thomas A. Edison

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