Coal Quotes

I'm so black, I leave fingerprints on coal. — Bernie Mac

Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers, to make a fire next day — Thomas Overbury

Coal companies have a lot of power in the media, and unfortunately a lot of information doesn't get out. — Kevin Richardson

We have enough coal to last for 250 years, yet coal also prevents an environmental challenge. — George W. Bush

Even when nuclear power plants go horribly wrong, they do less damage to the planet and its people than coal-burning stations operating normally. — George Monbiot

Clean coal represents a breakthrough in the marketing of coal, but not in the science of burning coal. — Van Jones

The issues of going back to coal in Ontario? I don't think we're going to win that one. — Ken Boshcoff

The desire for perfection is like a pit of wet coal silt: it will grab your boots like iron hands and never let you go. 13. — Chuck Wendig

For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire. — Thomas Paine

Perhaps I should just bury myself and become a diamond after thousands of years of intense pressure — Lemony Snicket

My parents were so proud when I got a scholarship to go to theatre school - it was unheard of that a coal-miner's son should go to drama school. — Brian Blessed

The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.
— Lawana Blackwell

My mom always puts a grapefruit in my stocking. I like grapefruit, but why put it in a stocking like it's a gift? It's almost as bad as coal. — Skylar Grey

You know something Andie? If we could find some coal for you to sit on, we could both retire early. — Priscilla Glenn

But all the wickedness in the world which man may do or think is no more to the mercy of God than a live coal dropped in the sea. — William Langland

Southern slave economy, sharecroppers after that, coal miners after that, and machinists and millworkers during more recent times. — J.D. Vance

My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pennsylvania. — Irwin Thomas

More coal-to-liquid means more energy and a stronger economy. — Peter Roskam

Entrepreneurship is like eating glass and walking on hot coals at the same time — Elon Musk

Thatcherite economic policy was most acutely felt in the coal industry, where tens of thousands of jobs were lost as pits were shut down. — John Burnside

Even if we can solve the carbon problem for coal, it is still a non-renewable resource. At some point, coal supplies will drop. — Van Jones

Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all. — T. Boone Pickens

Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse. — P. J. O'Rourke

No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them. — Bernard Malamud

Only a sweet and virtuous soul,
Like season'd timbered, never gives;
But though the whole world turn to coal,
Then chiefly lives. — George Herbert

The kind of event on a conveyor belt that causes a fire occurs in a variety of industrial environments, not uniquely in coal environments. — Richard Price

Only from dark coal tunnels white diamonds come, but only by the light are they recognised. — Akiane Kramarik

To hell with the Constitution when people want coal! — Theodore Roosevelt

Well, if you put enough pressure on coal it turns into pearls! — Suzanne Collins

...as nervous as a bird in a coal mine. — Jim Butcher

Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets. — Jimmy Breslin

Not for the first time, it occurred to me that sorrow could be purified into song the same way a piece of coal is purified into a diamond. — Ron Rash

The coal shed smelled of damp and blackness and of old, crushed forests. — Neil Gaiman

Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell. — Philip James Bailey

The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death. — James Hansen

Coal makes us sick. Oil makes us sick. It's global warming. It's ruining our country. It's ruining our world. — Harry Reid

Like the canary in the coal mine, the climate changes already evident in the Arctic are a call to action. — Susan Collins

Coal mining is tough. Acting is just tedious. — Johnny Knoxville

Felix ran his hands through his dark hair, sounding like a resigned maiden aunt. 'It'll all end in tears and coal dust, you see if it doesn't. — Gail Carriger

I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really. — David Bailey

Oh yeah, I would have been a coal miner, I would think, if I hadn't had tuberculosis when I was 12. — Tom Jones

It's like holding a hot coal in your hand, it just burns you, it doesn't do me any good. — Joe Lauzon

Perhaps time's definition of coal is the diamond. — Kahlil Gibran

Fierce-looking, a coal-eyed brunette with a gaze direct as lasers. She — Tess Gerritsen

I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal. — Peter Cook

While the black coal rose jutting round them, and the props of wood stood like little pillars in the low, black, very dark temple. — D.H. Lawrence

The acronym COAL has been proposed for this attitude of compassionate curiosity: curiosity, openness, acceptance, and love: — Gabor Mate

The grudge you hold on to is like a hot coal that you intend to throw at someone, only you're the one who gets burned. — Gautama Buddha

Maybe he was the anti-Santa, of the South Pole, and he was going to show them where the elves made lumps of coal for Anti-Christmas. — Lev Grossman

It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice. — William Penn

Don't judge the future of a person based on his present conditions, becausetime has the power to change black coal to shiny diamond. — Chanakya

Today, the ideal male is the gay man and the ideal female is the worker female, the woman who can work in a coal mine just like all the other men. — Camille Paglia

We hope that all coal mines will learn from the bitter lessons these accidents have taught and will strengthen their safety precautions. — Li Yizhong

The commencement of coal mining at Parsa Kente is a milestone event in coal mining sector. — Gautam Adani

Coal is a portable climate. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The damages of our present agriculture all come from the determination to use the life of the soil as if it were an extractable resource like coal. — Wendell Berry

Coal mines, like a hard life, have seen the best diamonds of innovation, more than any jewel factory. — Vikrmn

Rumors of coal's demise may have been greatly exaggerated. — Alan Johnson

Neighborhood grocery stores, coal yards, gas stations, cheap taverns, big old rundown houses, a few churches with blank embarrassed faces. — Ross Macdonald

I counted the days. I marked them off on the wall with a piece of coal. — Uri Orlev

Coal is not dear for the coal-miner who can use it there and then, nor is khadi dear for the villager who manufactures his own khadi. — Mahatma Gandhi

We're spending money on clean coal technology. Do you realize we've got 250 million years of coal? — George W. Bush

Everyone of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal, pouring off every page like it was written in my soul from me to you. — Bob Dylan

Entering 2015, the coal industry clearly continues to face significant challenges. — Joe Craft

The egg is white though the hen is black as coal ... Out of evil comes good, through the great goodness of God. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

There's no question that natural gas is a lot better than coal or oil, in the sense that natural gas produces less carbon per unit of energy produced. — Katharine Hayhoe

The average life expectancy of a celebrity is 20 years less than someone working in a coal mine. — Moby

Don't be afraid of pressure. Pressure is what transforms a lump of coal into a diamond. — Nicky Gumbel

If there is one man to whom I do feel myself inferior, it is a coal-miner. — George Orwell

Darren Fletcher is the type of player who would walk over hot coals to play for his country, and he has done — Andy Gray

I will fight for oil, coal and natural gas. — Mitt Romney

The modern city consists of ... dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise ... — Alexis Carrel

I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs. — John Major

Agriculture is the most destructive industry that we have. More than coal mining and other extractive industries. — Allan Savory

The coal mining industry is very destructive and it doesn't have to be. — Kevin Richardson

I support an all of the above energy policy, so that's not only just Keystone, that's not only just drilling, that's clean coal, that's safe nuclear. — Fred Upton

I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday). — Billy Joe Shaver

Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing. — Tim Cahill

America is the Saudi Arabia of coal. — Charles Duhigg

Don't save the canary. Fix the coal mine. — Seth Godin

No more coals to Newcastle, no more Hoares to Paris. — George V

I said that Santa no longer traffics in coal. Instead, if you're bad he comes to your house and steals things. — David Sedaris

The canary bird in the coal mine theory of the arts: artists should be treasured as alarm systems. — Kurt Vonnegut

When it comes to global warming, coal is the gorilla in the room. — Jeff Goodell

If you've seen Mary Poppins and The Grinch, come to the Booth Theater and let me shove a little coal down your stocking. — Nathan Lane

I grew up near Strasbourg in Alsace, where my family were coal merchants. — Jean-Georges Vongerichten

Orgasm for women like coal( that takes lot of time to get heat) , and men like microwave..just push the button — Anshu

Electricity is derived from many non-renewable energy sources like oil, natural gas and coal. — Lamar S. Smith

Rick Santorum is the grandson of a coal miner. His dad was the manager of a V.A. hospital. — Foster Friess

Who deserves more credit than the wife of a coal miner? Mother was one. — Merle Travis

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs. — Malcolm Forbes

The industrial stomach cannot live without coal; industry is a carbonivorous animal and must have its proper food. — Jules Verne

I thought I explained it to you. Boyd and I dug coal together. — Elmore Leonard

Coal is absolutely critical to our nation's economic health and global competitiveness. — Jerry Costello

Frankly, the only thing China has in easy abundance is people and dirty coal. Neither is the asset they're made out to be. — Thomas P.M. Barnett

There are skies manufactured by people, punctured and leaking,and there are soft,coal-colored clouds, beating like black hearts — Markus Zusak

The only difference between black coal and a precious diamond is the amount of pressure it endured. — Joel Osteen

The profits of oil, coal, and natural gas companies will have to yield to the imperative of sustaining life on earth. — Robert Pollin

As he puts it, he was reborn in a coal chute, so he can't look down on anyone now. — Lia Habel

Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars. — Vinod Khosla