Famous quotes containing the words york, mining and/or disaster:
“New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.... Always before I had felt like a person, an individual, hopeful that I could mold my life according to some desire of my own. But here in New York I was ignorant, insignificant, unimportant—one in millions whose destiny concerned no one. New York did not even know of my existence. Nor did it care.”
—Agnes Smedley (1890–1950)
“It’s a mining town in lotus land.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
“From disaster good fortune comes, and in good fortune lurks disaster.”
—Chinese proverb.