Coal Quotes

The locomotives are black. The coal is black. The tracks are black. The night is black. So what am I going to do with color?

Coal boosters like to tout coal as cheap and plentiful - well, not anymore. At least not in China.

When microorganisms die, they make oil; when huge timbers fall, they make coal. But everything here was pure, unadulterated rubbish that didn't make anything. Where does a busted videodeck get you?

Coal-black is better than another hue In that it scorns to bear another hue; For all the water in the ocean Can never turn the swan's black legs to white, Although she lave them hourly in the flood.

...for though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.

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

My father and brothers were coal miners.

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

The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.

Coal makes us sick. Oil makes us sick. It’s global warming. It’s ruining our country. It’s ruining our world.

I'm so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.

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

Social media is the ultimate canary in the coal mine

For better or worse, the bulk of coal industry jobs are in Appalachia - and when that coal is gone, so are the jobs.

It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port

It was Autumn, and incessant Piped the quails from shocks and sheaves, And, like living coals, the apples Burned among the withering leaves.

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.

We've seen an economy stifled by more taxes, more regulation, a war on coal and a failing health care reform come to be known as Obamacare and the American people know that we need to make a change.

Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed?

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

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

When you're directing, you're right at the coal face, always exhausted, often emotional - and I'll enjoy being a couple of steps back from that and simply helping where I can.

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

If a power station were to be built down the road, I'd prefer a nuclear plant over an oil burner, and definitely over a coal burner. We simply have to lessen our consumption of fossil fuels.

Not all the coal that is dug warms the world.

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

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

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.

To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.

When I'm in the U.S. Senate, I will fiercely oppose the president's attack on Kentucky's coal industry, because protecting our jobs will be my No. 1 priority.

Inside every lump of coal there's a diamond waiting to get out.

My desire to get here [Parliament] was like miners'coal dust, it was under my fingers and I couldn't scrub it out.

Friends are like coals in a fire - together, they glow; apart, they grow cold.

Is a park any better than a coal mine? What's a mountain got that a slag pile hasn't? What would you rather have in your garden--an almond tree or an oil well?

As the heat of the coal differs from the coal itself, so do memory, perception, judgment, emotion, and will, differ from the brain which is the instrument of thought.

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

I will fight for oil, coal and natural gas.

Faust was this mythical figure who sold his soul to the devil for unlimited power. The Japanese have made that Faustian bargain because they don't have coal, oil or hydro power.

For some reason, on that sparkling afternoon last week, I actually saw the coal that was passing by and it set me to thinking how important coal was to our everyday lives when I was a little boy.

I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.

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

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

Coal research and development provides huge benefits for the nation, and pay for itself many times over through taxes flowing back to the Treasury from expanded economic activity.

One point I like to stress is that we should think of coal, oil, natural gas, and nuclear, as clean energy.

One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil.

Coal is a portable climate.

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.

Keep in mind, coal plants claim plenty of birds too. Sadly, hydro claims the lives of many fish. There is a price for everything. Solar does the best as far as very minimal wildlife damage.

Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the rocks, and a stimulating climate, all shower their blessings upon man.

Chile is not a rich country in terms of gas, or oil or coal, but we are extremely rich in terms of the energies of the future.