Famous quotes containing the words york, mining and/or disaster:
“New York loves itself in an unkind and fanatical way.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Any relation to the land, the habit of tilling it, or mining it, or even hunting on it, generates the feeling of patriotism. He who keeps shop on it, or he who merely uses it as a support to his desk and ledger, or to his manufactory, values it less.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“From disaster good fortune comes, and in good fortune lurks disaster.”
—Chinese proverb.