Mining Quotes

“It's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew, where the dangers are double and the pleasures are few.”

“I was born one mornin' when the sun didn't shine, I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine.”

“Like a fiend with his dope and a drunkard his wine, a man will have lust for the lure of the mine.”

“The circumstances are so exceptional as to be without parallel in the history of mining.”

“Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines, it's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine.”

“Nothing's as precious as a hole in the ground.”

“My father always said that the business of a mining house is to find mines.”

“The price of coal is the blood, sweat, and tears of the miners.”