Gold Mining Town

Famous quotes containing the words mining town, gold, mining and/or town:

    It’s a mining town in lotus land.
    F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

    After reading Howitt’s account of the Australian gold-diggings one evening,... I asked myself why I might not be washing some gold daily, though it were only the finest particles,—why I might not sink a shaft down to the gold within me, and work that mine.... At any rate, I might pursue some path, however solitary and narrow and crooked, in which I could walk with love and reverence.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    It’s a mining town in lotus land.
    F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

    This was the most completely maritime town that we were ever in. It was merely a good harbor, surrounded by land, dry if not firm,—an inhabited beach, whereon fishermen cured and stored their fish, without any back country.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)