Coal Quotes

• We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy - sun, wind and tide. ... I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Running, Nature, Wind

  "Uncommon Friends : Life with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Alexis Carrel & Charles Lindbergh". Book by James Newton, 1987.

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• Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal while blaming our misery on the person who started the fire.

  Bill Crawford

  Fire, Hot, Misery

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• Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.

  Khalil Gibran

  Jewels, Definitions, Jewelry

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Dusty, dark, cold, and hard, coal has no beauty of its own, but when it is consummated by fire it is beautiful and becomes what it was designed to be.

  Frederica Mathewes-Green

  Beautiful, Dark, Fire

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• The commencement of coal mining at Parsa Kente is a milestone event in coal mining sector.

  Gautam Adani

  Events, Milestone, Commencement

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• A diamond is just a lump of coal that stuck to its job.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Jobs, Stuck, Diamond

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• Affection is a coal that must be cooled; else, suffered, it will set the heart on fire.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Fire, Affection

  1593 Venus and Adonis, stanza 65, l.387-8.

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• 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.

  Tim Holden

  Research And Development, Benefits, Pay

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• Not all the coal that is dug warms the world.

  Mother Jones

  World

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• Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Valentines Day, Dream

  Henry Ward Beecher, Augusta Moore (1859). “Notes from Plymouth Pulpit: A Collection of Memorable Passages from the Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, with a Sketch of Mr. Beecher and the Lecture Room”, p.41

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• I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Running, Nature, Hydrogen Fuel

  "Uncommon Friends : Life with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Alexis Carrel & Charles Lindbergh". Book by James Newton, 1987.

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• Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world, and which draws and develops a certain kind of man.

  Martin Cruz Smith

  Men, Culture, World

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• I’d noticed that his eyes were black – coal black.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Eye, Black, His Eyes

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

  Tim Cahill

  Art, Gold, Mystery

  Tim Cahill (1987). “Jaguars ripped my flesh: adventure is a risky business”, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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

  Thomas Paine

  Flames, Shining, Liberty

  Thomas Paine, Bruce Kuklick (2000). “Paine: Political Writings”, p.53, Cambridge University Press

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• James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the new Promethean spirit of the age, and humanity made its first tentative steps into an industrial way of life that would, over the next two centuries, forever change the world.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Change, Science, Two

  Jeremy Rifkin (2003). “The Hydrogen Economy”, p.6, Penguin

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• Nearly all of our existing power sources are generators which use a heat cycle. This includes our coal, oil, and gas fired utilities, our automobiles, trucks, and trains, and even our nuclear fission utility power plants.

  Wilson Greatbatch

  Oil, Nuclear, Use

  Wilson Greatbatch (2000). “The Making of the Pacemaker: Celebrating a Lifesaving Invention”

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

  Merle Travis

  Mother, Deserve More, Coal Miners

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• Here in the United States, we have between 250 and 300 years of a coal supply. That is more than the amount of recoverable oil contained in the entire world.

  Tim Holden

  Years, Usa, Oil

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

  William Shatner

  Inspirational, Success, Hard Work

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• It is sunlight in modified form which turns all the windmills and water wheels and the machinery which they drive. It is the energy derived from coal and petroleum (fossil sunlight) which propels our steam and gas engines, our locomotives and automobiles. ... Food is simply sunlight in cold storage.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Food, Science, Water

  John Harvey Kellogg “The New Dietetics, What to Eat and How”, Рипол Классик

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• Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.

  Solomon Ibn Gabirol

  Jealousy, Fire, Vehement

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• This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Funny, Humor, Islands

  Speech at Blackpool 24 May 1945, in Daily Herald 25 May 1945

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• 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.

  Nick Clooney

  Boys, Thinking, Passing By

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• Further, the United States is moving ahead in the development of clean coal technology. There are vast coal reserves in our country, and when it is burned cleanly, coal can provide a resource to supply a large amount of our energy requirements.

  Virgil Goode

  Country, Moving, Technology

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