Miners Quotes

• One day work is hard, and another day it is easy; but if I had waited for inspiration I am afraid I should have done nothing. The miner does not sit at the top of the shaft waiting for the coal to come bubbling up to the surface. One must go deep down, and work out every vein carefully.

  Sir Arthur Sullivan

  Inspiration, Should Have, Work Out

  "Sir Arthur Sullivan: Life-story, Letters and Reminiscences". Book by Arthur Lawrence, London: James Bowden, p. 225, 1899.

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• If you want to appreciate the Sun, be a miner; to value the land, be a sailor and to long for freedom, get married...

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Freedom, Land, Long

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• Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Gold, Gifts And Talents, Genius

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• Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives

  Mother Jones

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• I want to live, I want to give, I've been a miner for a heart of gold.

  Neil Young

  Song, Heart, Giving

  Song: Heart of Gold

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• All creation is a mine, and every man a miner.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Creation, Mines

  Abraham Lincoln (2013). “Leadership Lessons of Abraham Lincoln: Apply the Principles of the Sixteenth President to Your Own Work and Life”, p.14, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist.

  John Ruskin

  Steps, Chemist, Practicals

  John Ruskin (1873). “Pt. 3, sections 1-2 of the imaginative and theoretic faculties”, p.8

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• All artists as a type seem to suffer a great deal, but then so do miners.

  Jim Harrison

  Artist, Suffering, Type

  Jim Harrison (2007). “The Road Home”, p.333, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Life is as the current spark on the miner's wheel of flints; While it spinneth, there is light; stop it, all is darkness.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Life, Light, Darkness

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1855). “Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally Treated : First and Second Series, Complete in One Volume”, p.24

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• Every time you warm yourself in front of a hot coal stove, remember the coal miners in the cold dark corridors and pray for them!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Dark, Coal Miners, Hot

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• Reason is the miner's lamp used in bringing up ore from the mind.

  Austin O'Malley

  Mind, Lamps, Reason

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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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• Writer is a miner; he works in the gloomy places like a miner to get the precious material.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Gloomy, Materials

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• All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have.

  Arthur Scargill

  Coal Miners, Underestimate, Economic

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• When a miner looks at the rope that is to lower him into the deep mine, he may coolly say, "I have faith in that rope as well made and strong." But when he lays hold of it, and swings down by it into the tremendous chasm, then he is believing on the rope. Then he is trusting himself to the rope. It is not a mere opinion - it is an act. The miner lets go of every thing else, and bears his whole weight on those well braided strands of hemp. Now that is faith.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Letting Go, Strong, Believe

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 225, 1895.

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• All ancient books which have once been called sacred by man, will have their lasting place in the history of mankind, and those who possess the courage, the perseverance, and the self-denial of the true miner, and of the true scholar, will find even in the darkest and dustiest shafts what they are seeking for,-real nuggets of thought, and precious jewels of faith and hope.

  Max Muller

  Perseverance, Real, Book

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

  Jimmy Breslin

  Football, Coal Miners, Games

  "A talk with Jimmy Breslin, New York's "New Yorkiest" writer" by Jerry Schwartz, www.businessinsider.com. March 19, 2017.

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• Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf

  Annie Dillard

  Tunnels, Faces, Mystery

  Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.105, Canongate Books

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• We could manage to survive without money changers and stockbrokers. We should find it harder to do without miners, steel workers and those who cultivate the land.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Land, Steel, Should

  "In Place of Fear". Book by Aneurin Bevan, 1952.

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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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• All creation is a mine, and every man a miner. The whole earth, and all within it, upon it, and round about it, including himself ... are the infinitely various "leads" from which, man, from the first, was to dig out his destiny.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Destiny, Men, Discovery

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.437, Wildside Press LLC

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• Coal miners don't get coal miners' block.

  John Green

  Block, Coal Miners, Coal

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• In West Virginia, we're all family. We know how firefighters and policemen honor their own and we feel our miners deserve to be honored in a similar way.

  Ginger Baker

  Virginia, Firefighter, Honor

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

  Peter Cook

  Fall, Coal Miners, Judging

  British comedy stage revue "Beyond the Fringe" written and performed by Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Alan Bennett, and Jonathan Miller ("Sitting on the Bench", 1961), 1960-1966.

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• It constantly remains a source of disappointment to me that my drawings are not yet what I want them to be. The difficulties are indeed numerous and great, and cannot be overcome at once. To make progress is a kind of miner’s work; it doesn’t advance as quickly as one would like, and as others also expect, but as one stands before such a task, the basic necessities are patience and faithfulness. In fact, I do not think much about the difficulties, because if one thought of them too much one would get stunned or disturbed.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Disappointment, Thinking, Drawing

  Vincent van Gogh (1963). “Letters”, Atheneum Books for Young Readers

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