Coal Quotes
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Coal Quotes & Sayings
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I'm so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.
— Bernie Mac
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
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
My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pennsylvania.
— Irwin Thomas
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
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
I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday).
— Billy Joe Shaver
To hell with the Constitution when people want coal!
— Theodore Roosevelt
The canary bird in the coal mine theory of the arts: artists should be treasured as alarm systems.
— Kurt Vonnegut
I said that Santa no longer traffics in coal. Instead, if you're bad he comes to your house and steals things.
— David Sedaris
Well, if you put enough pressure on coal it turns into pearls!
— Suzanne Collins
Don't save the canary. Fix the coal mine.
— Seth Godin
America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.
— Charles Duhigg
I grew up near Strasbourg in Alsace, where my family were coal merchants.
— Jean-Georges Vongerichten
The coal mining industry is very destructive and it doesn't have to be.
— Kevin Richardson
...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
Agriculture is the most destructive industry that we have. More than coal mining and other extractive industries.
— Allan Savory
The modern city consists of ... dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise ...
— Alexis Carrel
The industrial stomach cannot live without coal; industry is a carbonivorous animal and must have its proper food.
— Jules Verne
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
Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars.
— Vinod Khosla
The profits of oil, coal, and natural gas companies will have to yield to the imperative of sustaining life on earth.
— Robert Pollin
The only difference between black coal and a precious diamond is the amount of pressure it endured.
— Joel Osteen
There are skies manufactured by people, punctured and leaking,and there are soft,coal-colored clouds, beating like black hearts
— Markus Zusak
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
Coal is absolutely critical to our nation's economic health and global competitiveness.
— Jerry Costello
I thought I explained it to you. Boyd and I dug coal together.
— Elmore Leonard
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
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
Rick Santorum is the grandson of a coal miner. His dad was the manager of a V.A. hospital.
— Foster Friess
Electricity is derived from many non-renewable energy sources like oil, natural gas and coal.
— Lamar S. Smith
Only from dark coal tunnels white diamonds come, but only by the light are they recognised.
— Akiane Kramarik
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
Coal is a portable climate.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The commencement of coal mining at Parsa Kente is a milestone event in coal mining sector.
— Gautam Adani
Like the canary in the coal mine, the climate changes already evident in the Arctic are a call to action.
— Susan Collins
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
It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.
— William Penn
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
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
I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal.
— Peter Cook
Coal mining is tough. Acting is just tedious.
— Johnny Knoxville
Perhaps time's definition of coal is the diamond.
— Kahlil Gibran
It's like holding a hot coal in your hand, it just burns you, it doesn't do me any good.
— Joe Lauzon
Oh yeah, I would have been a coal miner, I would think, if I hadn't had tuberculosis when I was 12.
— Tom Jones
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
We're spending money on clean coal technology. Do you realize we've got 250 million years of coal?
— George W. Bush
Darren Fletcher is the type of player who would walk over hot coals to play for his country, and he has done
— Andy Gray
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
Don't be afraid of pressure. Pressure is what transforms a lump of coal into a diamond.
— Nicky Gumbel
The average life expectancy of a celebrity is 20 years less than someone working in a coal mine.
— Moby
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 egg is white though the hen is black as coal ... Out of evil comes good, through the great goodness of God.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
I will fight for oil, coal and natural gas.
— Mitt Romney
No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
— Bernard Malamud
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
Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
— Philip James Bailey
Neighborhood grocery stores, coal yards, gas stations, cheap taverns, big old rundown houses, a few churches with blank embarrassed faces.
— Ross Macdonald
The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death.
— James Hansen
Rumors of coal's demise may have been greatly exaggerated.
— Alan Johnson
