(135 quotes found)
“A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made good under pressure.”
Henry Kissinger
“Perhaps Time's Definition of Coal is the Diamond.”
Kahlil Gibran
“How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?”
Charles Lindbergh
“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
“Oh, where are you going to, all you Big Steamers, / With England's own coal, up and down the salt seas?”
Rudyard Kipling
“If you don't want to burn uranium, you can burn coal or gas and melt the ice caps and break the bank, ... A truckload of uranium fuels a nuclear plant for two years, as compared to a trainload of coal every day.”
Gilbert Brown
“We expect continued high coal and natural gas prices to provide challenges for our generating businesses going forward.”
Canning Fok
“My grandfather was a miner for some time. Many in the Miami Valley have ties to the coal mine industry and have relatives who worked or are working in the mines in Eastern Kentucky, West Virginia and other places. Many of us care and want to do something to show support.”
Carol Baugh
“Coal production peaked in 1990, and we lost 40 percent of our production, which meant we lost 40 percent of our miners.”
Bill Caylor
