Mines Quotes

164 quotes by 128 authors

I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. My dad got his first… — Ann Romney
My family wasn't terribly affluent and looked upon money very carefully as something that had to be saved, not spent. My father built the ducting… — Wilbur Smith
Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the people, must redeem… — Langston Hughes
Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of… — William Ellery Channing
Scratch any fortune and you'll find blood only a generation or two back...child labor in mines or mills...Slavery. Drugs. Stock swindles. Wasting nature with clear-cuts,… — Chuck Palahniuk
If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee; If ever wife was happy in a man,… — Anne Bradstreet
When most people looked at Josie Tyrell, they only saw a certain collection of bones, a selection of forms filling space. But Michael saw past… — Janet Fitch
I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her ample rivers, and it was not there; in her fiertile… — W. Cleon Skousen
His kisses tapped into deep mines of memory, and the years that had separated us fell away as if they were nothing. — Lisa Kleypas
Underground. Which I hate. Like mines and tunnels and 13. Underground, where I dread dying, which is stupid because even if I die aboveground, the… — Suzanne Collins
Cabin Fifteen does that to everyone," Annabeth warned. "If you ask me, this place is even more dangerous than the Ares cabin. At least with… — Rick Riordan
The tail of Emily Windsnap"everyone has a secret . mines alittle different. i figured out i am a mermaid. — Liz Kessler
What else can I do? Once you've gone this far you aren't fit for anything else. Something happens to your mind. You're overqualified, overspecialized, and… — Margaret Atwood
Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades - words, words, but they hold the horror of the world. — Erich Maria Remarque
When you open a book,â€ the sentimental library posters said, â€œanything can happen.â€ This was so. A book of fiction was a bomb. It was… — Annie Dillard
It was raining in the small, mountainous country of Llamedos. It was always raining in Llamedos. Rain was the country's main export. It had rain… — Terry Pratchett
For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.… — Alan Paton
Even there, in the mines, underground, I may find a human heart in another convict and murderer by my side, and I may make friends… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Do you know they found land mines in woman's souls. — Andrea Gibson
Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines. — Amy Tan

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