Miners Quotes

38 quotes by 35 authors

My maternal grandma was a tough, tough lady and a stern woman, who lost her husband young and raised six kids by herself. She lived… — Steve Carell
It is brought home to you...that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior. — George Orwell
Some miners would have 20 pints after a hard day in the mine. Now that we sit behind computers all day, this is down to… — Michael Jackson
Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets. — Jimmy Breslin
You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy best among miners; and so with everything else. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated… — Thomas Jefferson
It must not be thought that it is ever possible to reach the interior earth by any perseverance in mining: both because the exterior earth… — Rene Descartes
Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf — Annie Dillard
As for myself, I do not believe in loggers, I believe in trees. I do not believe in fishermen, I believe in fish. I do… — Paul Watson
My father and brothers were coal miners. — Merle Travis
Writing is hard for every last one of usâ€”straight white men included. Coal mining is harder. Do you think miners stand around all day talking… — Cheryl Strayed
We could manage to survive without money changers and stockbrokers. We should find it harder to do without miners, steel workers and those who cultivate… — Aneurin Bevan
During the Gold Rush, most would-be miners lost money, but people who sold them picks, shovels, tents and blue-jeans (Levi Strauss) made a nice profit. — Peter Lynch
Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives — Mother Jones
The City of London and Wall Street are not going to be great places to be in the next two or three decades. It's going… — Jim Rogers
Mathematics may be likened to a large rock whose interior composition we wish to examine. The older mathematicians appear as persevering stone cutters slowly attempting… — Howard Whitley Eves
The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile. — Charles Darwin
All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have. — Arthur Scargill
Arthur Scargillâ€™s leadership of the minersâ€™ strike has been a disgrace. The price to be paid for his folly will be immense. He will have… — Jimmy Reid
In South Africa, they dig for diamonds. Tons of earth are moved to find a little pebble not as large as a little fingernail. The… — Robert Ringer

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