Mines Quotes

164 Mines quotes by 128 unique authors

If you are digging for excellent or suggestive renderings, this is among the richer mines. — Steven T. Byington
They say that God lives very high! But if you look above the pines You cannot see our God. And why? And if you dig… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no… — T.H. White
The most prudent thing any intelligent animal can do, if it would prefer its descendents not to spend a lot of time on a slab… — Terry Pratchett
God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm. Deep in unfathomable… — William Cowper
Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the… — Karel Capek
Every one of us gets to find our way, hopefully surrounded by love, but we still have to pick out our own way through the… — Ali MacGraw
The City is a machine miraculously organised for extracting gold from the seas, airs, clouds, from barren lands, holds of ships, mines, plantations, cottage hearth-stones,… — Christina Stead
Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in… — Diane Ackerman
The power of the press in America is a primordial one. It sets the agenda of public discussion; and this sweeping political power is unrestrained… — Theodore White
I can tell a young person where the mines are, but he's probably going to step on them anyway. — Burt Reynolds
The wind, as a direct motive power, is wholly inapplicable to a system of machine labour, for during a calm season the whole business of… — William Stanley Jevons
The decision to attack the entire nation [of Yugoslavia] has been counterproductive, and our destruction of civilian life has now become senseless and excessively brutal.… — Jimmy Carter
Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature's creative powers are greater than… — Jules Verne
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
I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold or all the riches that the East doth hold. — Anne Bradstreet
The wealthiest places in the world are not gold mines, oil fields, diamond mines or banks. The wealthiest place is the cemetery. There lies companies… — Myles Munroe
With many readers, brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under ground. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human… — Mark Twain
Children drown, beautiful women are mangled in automobile accidents, cruise ships founder, and men die lingering deaths in mines and submarines, but you will find… — John Cheever
That was what, ultimately, war did to you. It was not the physical dangers--the mines at sea, the bombs from the air, the crisp ping… — Agatha Christie
Time after time we're told corporations should have freedom from pesky job safety regulations, environmental protections and labor standards - giving working people the freedom… — Richard Trumka
It's angering that not everybody has signed this treaty to ban landmines. It's disgusting, it really is, because it is fact that (mines) hurt a… — Angelina Jolie
It's a business. If I could make more money down in the zinc mines I'd be mining zinc. — Roger Maris
The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the turning of Africa into a… — Karl Marx

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