Mines Quotes

164 Mines quotes by 128 unique authors

Though folly, robed in purple, shines, Though vice exhausts Peruvian mines, Yet shall they tremble and turn pale When satire wields her mighty flail. — Charles Churchill
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
Gold and silver are no doubt subject to fluctuations, from the discovery of new and more abundant mines; but such discoveries are rare, and their… — David Ricardo
We often say that we fear no invasion from the south, but the armies of the south have already crossed the border - American enterprise,… — Sara Jeannette Duncan
We are consuming our forests three times faster than they are being reproduced. Some of the richest timber lands of this continent have already been… — Theodore Roosevelt
From the industry's point of view, the problem is not that coal companies blast the top off mountains, turning the area into a moonscape and… — Jeff Goodell
Money never seems to be interested in strengthening regulatory agencies, for example, but always in subverting them, in making them miss the danger signs in… — Thomas Frank
Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed… — David Ricardo
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,” the sentimental library posters said, “anything can happen.” This was so. A book of fiction was a bomb. It was… — Annie Dillard

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