Canary In A Coal Mine Quotes & Sayings

In Marin County, north of San Francisco, the search for a safe haven resulted in a new apartment complex - the first, and only, such government-sponsored project aimed at MCS. — Peter Radetsky

What's done is done and can't be undone. We can only move on from here — Gena Showalter

Don't save the canary. Fix the coal mine. — Seth Godin

Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera. — Mason Cooley

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

Hope gives the heart wings; the
soul, an anchor. — Janet Todd

The blacks have their parties, hustle a little liquor, get some things together, and I used to play for those peoples. They'd come get me on time, but they wouldn't bring me back on time ... Done picked cotton all day, play all night long, then pick cotton all day the next day before I could get a chance to sleep. — Muddy Waters

[It] was written and sold. I knew it was a strong story because I cared about it and believed in it. I had no idea that it would have the effect it had on the audience. While most people ignored it, of course, and continue to live full and happy lives without reading it or anything else by me, there was still a surprisingly large group who responded to the story with some fervency. — Orson Scott Card

Measles is probably the best argument for why there needs to be global health, and why we have to think about it as a global public good. Because in a sense, measles is the canary in the coal mine for immunization. It is, you know, highly transmissible. The vaccine costs 15 cents, so it's not - you know, shouldn't be an issue in terms of cost. — Seth Berkley

If all currencies are moving up or down together, the question is: relative to what? Gold is the canary in the coal mine. It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it. — Alan Greenspan

I think that discipline is so much of an important part of being a parent. Because it's very, very important to teach your children to take responsibility for their actions. — Cheryl Ladd

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success! — Doug Larson

For years, I've been wondering what could happen to nuclear submarines when they dive and disappear from the surface of the earth for months, without a trace. No one really knows where they are. — Guy Hamilton

Conditions of thought, memory, and desire, persuaded by impulse and irrationality, are influenced as well by personal aesthetics and private meanings. — Kay Redfield Jamison

Bishops may often feel but cannot express the sting and throb of submitting themselves to Roman commands because the latter are always presented as tests of their loyalty to the Pope and of their absolute acceptance of his teaching authority, or Magisterium. — Eugene Kennedy

The best way to get your audience larger and more consistent is to be more divisive and more radical and criticize those who cater to or kowtow to other forces. — Norman Ornstein

Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness. — Phyllis Bottome

There are times when the heart, like the canary in the coal mine, breathes in the world's toxicity and begins to die. — Parker J. Palmer

The hack is like a politician who consults the polls before he takes a position. He's a demagogue. He panders. — Steven Pressfield

The prominence given to our nation as a rainbow country has its genesis and credence in our 'Calaloo culture' of which our East Indian brothers and sisters have played a principal part. — Anthony Carmona

The canary bird in the coal mine theory of the arts: artists should be treasured as alarm systems. — Kurt Vonnegut

Teenagers, especially girl ones, seem like the perfect canary-in-the-coal-mine characters to me. They capture American culture and its perversion, its hypocrisy - how absorbed we are with youth and beauty and sexualized imagery, for instance, while preaching abstinence and modesty. — Antonya Nelson

Social media is the ultimate canary in the coal mine — Jay Baer

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit. — Eminem