Coal Quotes

411 Coal quotes by 314 unique authors

Nearly all of our existing power sources are generators which use a heat cycle. This includes our coal, oil, and gas fired utilities, our automobiles,… — Wilson Greatbatch
I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner. — Tom Jones
I love what Chris & Katy are bringing to the table with Coal Train Railroad. It makes ME feel like a kid again! I think… — Jeff Coffin
Today, the ideal male is the gay man and the ideal female is the worker female, the woman who can work in a coal mine… — Camille Paglia
What I see are people who want affordable energy. They want strong environmental standards - they want a lot of things - but first and… — John S. Watson
Chinese growth will either be strong or very strong. They have a voracious demand for energy that will only continue to grow. What they're doing...… — John S. Watson
Historically, the United States has had a wonderful energy policy. We're blessed with a diversity of resources. We have oil. We have gas. We have… — John S. Watson
Natural gas will displace coal in power generation. Getting natural gas into the transportation fleet is harder. It works best for vehicles that work from… — John S. Watson
[I predict] the electricity generated by water power is the only thing that is going to keep future generations from freezing. Now we use coal… — Charles Proteus Steinmetz
The first horror movie I saw, in first or second grade, was My Bloody Valentine [1981], where there's a deranged killer in a miner mask… — Christopher Bollen
Coal-black is better than another hue In that it scorns to bear another hue; For all the water in the ocean Can never turn the… — William Shakespeare
Writing poetry, we live among the wild beasts, and when we touch a man, the stuff of someone in whom we believed, and he goes… — Pablo Neruda
I dug it, New York City, all-the streets and the snows and the starving and the five-flight walkups and sleeping in rooms with ten people.… — Bob Dylan
Life may be defined to be the power of self-augmentation or assimilation, not of self-nurture; for then a steam-engine over a coal-pit might be made… — Augustus William Hare
I think a portfolio standard should go beyond wind, solar and geothermal energy to include renewable energy like hydropower and clean alternatives such as coal… — Pete Domenici
Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers, to make a fire next day — Thomas Overbury
Rumors of coal's demise may have been greatly exaggerated. — Alan Johnson
We hence acquire this sublime and interesting idea; that all the calcareous mountains in the world, and all the strata of clay, coal, marl, sand,… — Erasmus Darwin
We Americans think we are pretty good! We want to build a house, we cut down some trees. We want to build a fire, we… — Will Rogers
The only difference between black coal and a precious diamond is the amount of pressure it endured. — Joel Osteen
claiming that the destructive practice of mountaintop removal mining, blowing the tops off mountains to get at the coal beneath, performs the "necessary" function of… — Joseph Conrad
The damages of our present agriculture all come from the determination to use the life of the soil as if it were an extractable resource… — Wendell Berry
It's like holding a hot coal in your hand, it just burns you, it doesn't do me any good. — Joe Lauzon
Should ever anything be missed - milk, coals, umbrellas, brandy - the cat's pitched into with a boot or anything that's handy. — Charles Stuart Calverley
Some people have views of God that are so broad and flexible that it is inevitable that they will find God wherever they look for… — Steven Weinberg

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