Quotes about coal
A collection of quotes on the topic of coal, likeness, use, doing.
Quotes about coal

Nursery rhyme; The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (2nd ed. 1997), pp365-6
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Campaign rally http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/10/19/remarks-president-campaign-event-fairfax-va, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia,
2012

"Physicist, Purge Thyself" in the Chicago Tribune Magazine (22 June 1969)
Various interviews
Context: I sometimes wondered what the use of any of the arts was. The best thing I could come up with was what I call the canary in the coal mine theory of the arts. This theory says that artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are super-sensitive. They keel over like canaries in poison coal mines long before more robust types realize that there is any danger whatsoever.

As quoted in Earth's Aura (1977) by Louise B. Young
Context: What beauty. I saw clouds and their light shadows on the distant dear earth.... The water looked like darkish, slightly gleaming spots.... When I watched the horizon, I saw the abrupt, contrasting transition from the earth's light-colored surface to the absolutely black sky. I enjoyed the rich color spectrum of the earth. It is surrounded by a light blue aureole that gradually darkens, becoming turquiose, dark blue, violet, and finally coal black.

“As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain.”
Source: Catching Fire

Source: Heart-Shaped Box
Source: Lothaire

William Lai (2018) cited in " Premier visits coal-fired power plant to alleviate public concerns http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aipl/201803180015.aspx" on Focus Taiwan, 18 March 2018.
In many works by the greatest colourists — Rembrandt and Watteau are examples — there are very few identifiable colours.
Source: The Romantic Rebellion (1973), Ch. 10: Turner II: The Liberation of Colour

Letter 350, to John Lehmann, 21 December 1940
Selected Letters (1983-1985)
Academiarum Examen, or the Examination of Academies (1654), p. 71; of chemistry.

Source: Structure of American economy, 1919-1929, 1941, p. 141: as cited in: Frits Bos, " Three centuries of macro-economic statistics http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/35391/1/Three_centuries_macroeconomic_statistics.pdf." (2011).

Speech in Limehouse, East London (30 July 1909), quoted in Better Times: Speeches by the Right Hon. D. Lloyd George, M.P., Chancellor of the Exchequer (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1910), pp. 153-154.
Chancellor of the Exchequer

Source: Soul Curry for You and Me: An Empowering Philosophy that Can Enrich Your Life, P. 21-22.

Twitter http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/09/politics/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-conspiracy/index.html (8 December 2015).
2010s, 2015

Source: 1950s–1970s, Maximum Principles in Analytical Economics, 1970, p. 76

Speech in Nelson, Lancashire (22 November 1973), quoted in The Times (23 November 1973), p. 2.
Prime Minister

“you're not the only one that's tried to make a coal into a diamond.”
Clara
Song lyrics, Anywhere but Here (1997)

[2007-04-20, Romney's Energy Gaffe, Ryan Sager, The New York Sun, http://www.nysun.com/national/romneys-energy-gaffe/52883/]
2007 campaign for Republican nomination for United States President

Quoted in "Korea would Try 2 Japanese Chiefs" from "New York Times" article - November 30, 1948.
'Jean-Paul Sartre', p. 671
Essays and reviews, Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time (2007)

30,000 Pounds of Bananas
Song lyrics, Verities & Balderdash (1974)
Source: Let Me Live (1937), p. 7

Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994), p. 227

Creation seminars (2003-2005), The Hovind theory

Untitled essay, reprinted in Arthur Lawrence Sir Arthur Sullivan: Life-story, Letters and Reminiscences (London: James Bowden, 1899) p. 225.

Daily Herald, 25 May 1945
Speech at Blackpool, 24 May 1945.
1940s

The Zollverein and British Industry (1903), pp. 159-160
1900s

pg. 237
The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England (1801), Public entertainment

“Oh, that's nothing – I could coach a coal scuttle to be Senior Wrangler.”
when complimented about coaching his one pupil scoring higher than his rival's pupils at Peterhouse Tripos, as quoted by [Cargill Gilston Knott, Life and scientific work of Peter Guthrie Tait, Cambridge University Press, 1911, http://books.google.com/books?id=PSU9AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA11, 11]

Nicholas Wood and Michael Prescott, "Major threatens general election if he fails to win Maastricht vote", Sunday Times, 25 October 1992.
1990s, 1992

Speech in Blackpool (24 January 1884), quoted in Robert Rhodes James, Lord Randolph Churchill (London: Phoenix, 1994), p. 137

"Will Mankind Destroy Itself?" http://bigthink.com/videos/will-mankind-destroy-itself (29 September 2010)

Missing the Market Meltdown http://www.newsweek.com/id/137501 (May 2008)

Recover Your Soul
Song lyrics, The Big Picture (1997)

In his letter to brother Theo, from Laeken, near Brussels, 15 Nov. 1878, (letter 126); as quoted in Vincent van Gogh, edited by Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935 https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1996_300061887.pdf, p. 18
1870s
The Lottery (1948)
January 3, 2006, on the U.S. radio program Coast to Coast AM with George Noory
Ultimately incorrect: the miners were found dead. January 8, 2006 Fox News Interview http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,180681,00.html

Source: The Man With the Iron Heart (2008), p. 56-57

The Ethical Dilemma of Science and Other Writings https://books.google.com.mx/books?id=zaE1AAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false (1960, Cap 1. Scepticism and Faith, p. 41)

Quoted in "The Olduvai Theory: Sliding Towards a Post-Industrial Stone Age" by Richard C. Duncan http://dieoff.org/page125.htm
Originally from Fred Hoyle, Of Men and Galaxies (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1964).

Speaking after a Labour Party conference speech on energy policy by Richard March (July 1967), quoted in Andrew Taylor, The Politics of the Yorkshire Miner (London: Croom Helm, 1984), p. 60
Interview with Left Voice (2017)
"They're always telling me I'm too angry" (1995)

Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), Democratic Presidential Debate in Miami (March 9, 2016)
Soldier and Son

Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), Tangled Up In Blue
Source: "Some Social and Psychological Consequences of the Long Wall Method of Coal-Getting", 1951, p. 18

“These hands were almost crippled digging coal so that rich men in Boston might grow even richer.”
Source: In the Drift (1985), Chapter 4, “Mutagen Fair” (p. 130)

Wealth
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)

"Ethan Brand" (1850)

W. W. Thayer (1880). Governor William W. Thayer - Biennial Message, 1880 http://records.sos.state.or.us/ORSOSWebDrawer/Recordpdf/6777837. Oregon State Archives, Oregon Secretary of State. Source: Messages and Documents, Biennial Message of Gov. William Thayer to the Legislative Assembly, 1880, Salem, Oregon, W.P. Keady, State Printer, 1880.

The Old Man and His Movements (Times Press, 1964)
Literary works

translation from the original Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek
version in original Dutch (citaat van Breitner's brief, in het Nederlands:) Gisteren was 't er [op het strand van Scheveningen] goddelijk mooi. Die schuiten lagen in dichte rijen tegen de [strand]-helling en daartussen ging men als tussen een fantastisch gebouwde stad en van boven tussen die geteerde rompen koolzwart, grijs, groen, [en] wit een diepe blauwe lucht.
In Breitner's letter to A.P. van Stolk, nr. 49, Den Haag 17 Dec. 1883; in the RKD-Archive, The Hague; as cited in the master-thesis Van Gogh en Breitner in Den Haag, Helewise Berger, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, p. 31
In 1881 already Breitner had rendered the surroundings of Scheveningen in the large 'Panorama of Mesdag', assisting Mesdag in this huge project
before 1890
Source: Water Street (2006), Chapters 11-20, p. 72

"Talk to an Art-Union (A Brooklyn fragment)" (1839)

Thomas Savery, pp. 25-26 https://books.google.com/books?id=v_-yJ5c5a98C
The Miner's Friend; or, An Engine to Raise Water by Fire, 1702

Hannity and Colmes (2 December 2008) http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,460964,00.html

Song lyrics, In My Tribe (1987), Like The Weather

Source: Why Men Earn More (2005), p. 33.

(from vol 2, letter 62: 17 Jan 1780, to Mr S___ ).

Source: Adventures of a White-Collar Man. 1941, p. 5 ; About his first job at the , where a year later Sloan would take control.

Quote from Gainsborough's letter to his friend William Jackson of Exeter, from Bath 23 Aug. 1767; as cited in Thomas Gainsborough, by William T, Whitley https://ia800204.us.archive.org/6/items/thomasgainsborou00whitrich/thomasgainsborou00whitrich.pdf; New York, Charles Scribner's Sons – London, Smith, Elder & Co, Sept. 1915, p. 379 (Appendix A - Letter I)
1755 - 1769
Sermon (1899)

“Afternoon with Q. [Quappi, his second wife] on foot, looking for butter and coals – in vain.”
Beckman's Diary, 1 June 1943, Amsterdam; as cited on: 'Arts in exile' http://kuenste-im-exil.de
1940s

Said to Anthony Eden on 23 December 1935 following the furore that erupted over the Hoare-Laval Pact.
Quoted in Earl of Avon, Facing the Dictators (1962) pt.2 ch.1

a person who feels happy or sad
Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000)

Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000)

6 March 2014 http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/06/tim-flannery-coal-communities-kept-darkː Vulnerable groups of people in South Morwell Australia were advised to temporarily relocate due to the danger of PM2.5 particles in 2014.
Coal

Source: [Will The Real Alberta Please Stand Up, University of Alberta Press, 2010, 312, Geo Takach]