Old Miner Quotes & Sayings

I don't like the royal family, I don't like the establishment, I don't like the civil service. — Paul Weller

I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. My dad got his first job when he was six years old, in a little village in Wales called Nantyffyllon, cleaning bottles at the Colliers Arms. — Ann Romney

Well, when I was fifteen years old I worked in a lingerie store and that's how I feel in love with vintage lingerie because I wanted to know the history of it. — Dita Von Teese

Therefore encourage (admonish, exhort) one another and edify (strengthen and build up) one another, just as you are doing. 1 Thessalonians 5:11 — Joyce Meyer

Don't matter if you care," the old miner said, "if you don't own what you care about. — Kurt Vonnegut

I like being on camera, performing, seeing what people have in common. — Eddie Huang

So this was where lust was satisfied. If I'd been an old-time miner I'd have asked for my gold nugget back. — Ava Gardner

Fame has a lot of baggage to carry around. I wouldn't want to be like Bruce Springsteen. I don't need that much money and wouldn't want to have 20 bodyguards following me. — Alex Chilton

As it happens, the first souvenir I bought was a dried llama fetus. Revolting as it may sound, my poor stillborn llama is actually rather cute. Frozen in the fetal position and dried stiff like beef jerky, it has the gentle, smiling face of a camel and plenty of soft, if slightly formaldehyde-scented, fur. I bought the llama fetus partly because it horrified me, but also for educational purposes, so that my eight-year-old daughter Sophia could show it to her class. (She refused.)
Bolivians buy llama fetuses to ward off evil in its many guises. Bolivian miners - who, with a life expectancy of forty-five years, basically live their entire adult lives dying - look to llama fetuses for protection against dynamite explosions and the lung-destroying silicon particulates they inhale all day. Downing high-proof alcohol also helps. "The purer the alcohol, the purer the minerals I find," one miner told me wryly. — Amy Chua

Race prejudice is a gift of nature, intended to preserve in purity the various divisions of mankind which the ages have evolved. — H.P. Lovecraft

His mouth formed an O with lips torn angry in laying duck's eggs from a chicken's rectum. — Nathanael West

Preparedness, when properly pursued, is a way of life, not a sudden, spectacular program. — Spencer W. Kimball

All in all I'd rather have been a judge than a miner. And what's more, being a miner, as soon as you are too old and tired and sick and stupid to do the job properly, you have to go. Well, the very opposite applies with judges. * — Peter Cook

Here, are the stiffening hills, here, the rich cargo
Congealed in the dark arteries,
Old veins
That hold Glamorgan's blood.
The midnight miner in the secret seams,
Limb, life, and bread.
- Rhondda Valley — Mervyn Peake