Miners Quotes
38 quotes by 35 authors
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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
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It is brought home to you...that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior.
— George Orwell
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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
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Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.
— Jimmy Breslin
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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My father and brothers were coal miners.
— Merle Travis
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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
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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
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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
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Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives
— Mother Jones
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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
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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
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The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
— Charles Darwin
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All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have.
— Arthur Scargill
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Arthur Scargill’s leadership of the miners’ strike has been a disgrace. The price to be paid for his folly will be immense. He will have…
— Jimmy Reid
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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
Who Wrote These Miners Quotes
35 authors contributed a total of 38 Miners Quotes, led by these top contributors: