Famous quotes containing the words mining town, mining and/or town:
“It’s a mining town in lotus land.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
“For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish or a German girl scrubbing floors in that home, a Welsh boy mining coal to keep the home-baked goodies warm, a black girl doing the family laundry, a black mother and child picking cotton to be made into clothes for the family, and a Jewish or an Italian daughter in a sweatshop making “ladies” dresses or artificial flowers for the family to purchase.”
—Stephanie Coontz (20th century)
“The mountain held the town as in a shadow.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)