Quotes of Miner - somelinesforyou

“ One day I bumped into a group of coal miners from the Ozarks, wandering coal miners living a gypsy life… I started to speak with these coal miners, and became very interested in them. ”

- Marguerite Young

“ Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner who works and brings it out. ”

- Marguerite Gardiner

“ It is brought home to you…that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior. ”

- George Orwell

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

- Jimmy Breslin

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

- Peter Cook

“ Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner that works and brings it out. ”

- Lady Marguerite Blessington

“ Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there… You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken, you study mineralogy best among miners, and so with everything else. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose dubious brightness falsifies everything, whose wick is in permanent danger of explosion, whose blinking illumination in the coal dust exhausts and corrodes your eyes. ”

- Blaise Cendrars Sauser

“ The union miner cannot agree to the acceptance of a wage principle which will permit his annual earnings and his living standards to be determined by the hungriest unfortunates whom the non-union operators can employ. ”

- John Lewis

“ I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a hard rock miner. My mom took in wash. I grew up around people of strong values - even if they rarely talked about them. ”

- Harry Reid
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