Quotes and Sayings About Coal

The only candidate pocketing big money from people who want to destroy coal is Mitch McConnell.
-- Alison Lundergan Grimes

#People #Coal #Want

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

#Agriculture #Coal #Coal Mining

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

#Islands #Fishing #Coal

Natural gas is the one fuel that we have that's affordable, it's scaleable, it can replace coal over time, it can replace imported oil, can create American jobs.
-- Aubrey McClendon

#Jobs #Oil #Coal

Life may be defined to be the power of self-augmentation or assimilation, not of self-nurture; for then a steam-engine over a coal-pit might be made to live.
-- Augustus William Hare

#Self #Coal #Pits

Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
-- B. C. Forbes

#Basketball #Jobs #Coal

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.
-- Barack Obama

#Want #Energy #Coal

Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. . . . Because I'm capping greenhouse gases, coal power plants, natural gas-you name it-whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, they would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that money on to consumers.
-- Barack Obama

#Names #Coal #Energy

No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.
-- Bernard Malamud

#Anger #Hot #Coal

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

#Dust #Desire #Coal

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 #Coal

Without an end to the burning of fossil fuels, coal especially, most of us will live shorter lives. I'm hopeful, but very, very concerned.
-- Bill Nye

#Hopeful #Coal #Burning

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.
-- Bill Vaughan

#Government #Nuclear #Coal

You need to be in fellowship of a church...If you separate a live coal from the others, it will soon die out. However, if you put a live coal in with other live coals, it will be a glow that will last for hours.
-- Billy Graham

#Church #Needs #Coal

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

#Coal #Someday #Diamond

In the right situation, acting on television can be extraordinarily satisfying creatively. But that's incredibly rare. Otherwise, it can be like working in a really remunerative coal mine. That's the down side.
-- Bradley Whitford

#Acting #Coal #Television

Today, the ideal male is the gay man and the ideal female is the worker female, the woman who can work in a coal mine just like all the other men.
-- Camille Paglia

#Gay #Men #Coal

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

#Judging #Black #Coal

The waste from power plants is essentially what is left over when you burn coal. And as we all know, coal is a relatively dirty mineral.
-- Charles Duhigg

#Dirty #Coal #Waste

America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.
-- Charles Duhigg

#America #Arabia #Coal

Should ever anything be missed - milk, coals, umbrellas, brandy - the cat's pitched into with a boot or anything that's handy.
-- Charles Stuart Calverley

#Cat #Coal #Boots

The first horror movie I saw, in first or second grade, was My Bloody Valentine [1981], where there's a deranged killer in a miner mask stalking a small coal town.
-- Christopher Bollen

#Valentine #Coal #Killers

The poet, distracted by politics, asks of poetry that it make itself useful like metal or flour, that it get ready to stain its face with coal dust and fight body to body.
-- Eduardo Galeano

#Fighting #Dust #Coal

Scatter soaked hardwood chunks over your coals for a quick and easy way to add a smoky nuance to your grilled foods.
-- Emeril Lagasse

#Add #Coal #Way

Perhaps he wanted to be alone with Dr. G., who was here, but he should have let me know. At Hoffmann's I felt I was sitting on hot coals, expecting him to arrive every moment.
-- Eva Braun

#Hot #Drs #Coal

I support an all of the above energy policy, so that's not only just Keystone, that's not only just drilling, that's clean coal, that's safe nuclear.
-- Fred Upton

#Support #Coal #Safe

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.
-- Frederick Soddy

#Islands #Energy #Coal

The commencement of coal mining at Parsa Kente is a milestone event in coal mining sector.
-- Gautam Adani

#Events #Coal #Milestone

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

#People #Nuclear #Coal

Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol.
-- Harry Houdini

#Alcohol #Balls #Coal