Coal Quotes

I worked at a factory owned by Germans, at coal pits owned by Frenchmen, and at a chemical plant owned by Belgians. There I discovered something about capitalists. They are all alike, whatever the nationality. All they wanted from me was the most work for the least money that kept me alive. So I became a communist.

Don't judge the future of a person based on his present conditions, becausetime has the power to change black coal to shiny diamond.

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.

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.

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.

There is an urgent need to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, dramatically reduce wasted energy, and significantly shift our power supplies from oil, coal, and natural gas to wind, solar, geothermal, and other renewable energy sources.

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.

The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia.

And we have abundant natural energy resources in the country. We haven't been taking adequate advantage of them, and we can burn coal in a clean way; we could improve the grid.

Coal mining is tough. Acting is just tedious.

Mankind has always drawn from outside sources of energy. This island was the first to harness coal and steam. But our present sources stand in the ratio of a million to one, compared with any previous sources. The release of atomic energy will change the whole structure of society.

The experience reminds me of a favorite saying: Most of the yield from research efforts comes from the coal that is mined while looking for diamonds.

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

A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job

Don't be afraid of pressure. Pressure is what transforms a lump of coal into a diamond.

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

Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known that charcoal burns with an extremely intense heat.

Like the canary in the coal mine, the climate changes already evident in the Arctic are a call to action.

With every word, I drop knowledge. I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal.

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.

The envious are not satisfied with equality; they secretly yearn for superiority and revenge. In the French Revolution of 1848, a woman coal-heaver is said to have remarked to a richly dressed lady: 'Yes, madam, everything's going to be equal now; I shall go in silks and you'll carry coal.'

Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers, to make a fire next day

So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted.

A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made good under pressure.

No more coals to Newcastle, no more Hoares to Paris.

The more you get past pain, the more it goes from coal to diamond.

Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.

The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death.

These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em.

Even when nuclear power plants go horribly wrong, they do less damage to the planet and its people than coal-burning stations operating normally.

Compared to coal, which generates almost half the electricity in the United States, natural gas is indeed a cleaner, less polluting fuel. But compared to, say, solar, it's filthy. And of course there is nothing renewable about natural gas.

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

It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man who, not being able to find any other fault with his coal, complained that there were too many prehistoric toads in it.

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

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

Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.

Even coal shimmers in the light

Investing one cent more in oil, coal and gas is investing in the death of society, and the in the death of our children.

I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal.

You move on. It's work. Yeah, I'm privileged and paid handsomely and it's not exactly being in a coal mine, but you still work your ass off and you work as hard as you possibly can and you hope that people connect to it and enjoy it.

Social media is the ultimate canary in the coal mine

Education should ennoble the students, but instead it is debasing them. Instead of shaping the young into diamonds, it is turning them into coals. It is not bringing transformation in them, It is not bestowing wisdom.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars.