Valley Coal Miners

Famous quotes containing the words valley, coal and/or miners:

    ““Over the mountains
    Of the moon,
    Down the valley of the shadow,
    Ride, boldly ride,”
    The shade replied,—
    “If you seek for Eldorado!””
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

    “Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose dubious brightness falsifies everything, whose wick is in permanent danger of explosion, whose blinking illumination in the coal dust exhausts and corrodes your eyes.”
    —Blaise Cendrars (1887–1961)

    “The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win.”
    —Mother Jones (1830–1930)