Mining Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old mining quotes, mining sayings, and mining proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Science mines nature for truth of a different order -- it is our mightiest means of communing with reality, probing its mysteries, and gleaning from them some sense of belonging, of locating ourselves in the universe, understanding our place in it, and liberating ourselves from delusion. Maria Popova
There are as many forms of memory as there are ways of perceiving, and every one of them is worth mining for inspiration. Twyla Tharp
For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft. Thomas J. Cottle
Only by much searching and mining, are gold and diamonds obtained, and man can find every truth connected with his being, if he will dig deep into the mine of his soul. James Allen
Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission. Stewart Udall
The mining industry might make wealth and power for a few men and women, but the many would always be smashed and battered beneath its giant treads. Katharine Susannah Prichard
Mining is a dangerous profession. There's no way to make a mine completely safe: These are the words owners have always used to excuse needless deaths and the words miners use to prepare for them. Tawni O'Dell
Coal mining is tough. Acting is just tedious. Johnny Knoxville
Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality. John Gardner
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
Mining is the art of exploiting mineral deposits at a profit. An unprofitable mine is fit only for the sepulcher of a dead mule. T.A. Rickard
The mines of knowledge are oft laid bare through the forked hazel wand of chance. Martin Farquhar Tupper
Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world, and which draws and develops a certain kind of man Martin Cruz Smith
Writing is like mining for gold hidden in the hillsides of your mind. David Baboulene
A society must create lots of sunshine for its miners as they need the sun most! And ‘to be remembered, to be respected' is a good sunshine; ‘safety in the mine' is a good sunshine! Mehmet Murat ildan
It must not be thought that it is ever possible to reach the interior earth by any perseverance in mining: both because the exterior earth is too thick, in comparison with human strength; and especially because of the intermediate waters, which would gush forth with greater impetus, the deeper the place in which their veins were first opened; and which would drown all miners. Rene Descartes
What strip mining is to nature the art market has become to culture. Robert Hughes
Mining is a patient game and it always will be. Clive Palmer
Mining asteroids will ultimately benefit humanity on and off the Earth in a multitude of ways. Peter Diamandis
Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission. Stewart Udall
How like Eve's apple doth thy beauty grow, If thy sweet virtue answer not thy show! Shakepeare
If you have come here to help me, you are wasting out time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together. Lilla Watson
The history of underground coal mining suggests it is one of the most at risk mining sectors and arguably one of the most dangerous industries in human history. Woodhead Publishing
Large amounts of methane released during mining present concerns about adequate mine ventilation to ensure worker safety. Woodhead Publishing
There are no wastelands in our landscape quite like those we've created ourselves. Joshua Zeunert
In the United States a kind of gas is produced for mining and other purposes by forcing common air through benzoline. Joseph Henry Collins
The best kinds of timber for use in mining operations are oak, elm, larch, Norway fir or red deal. Joseph Henry Collins
The most common form for the 'shafts' or 'pits' of coal mines is circular, but they are occasionally made rectangular as in metal mining. Joseph Henry Collins
Let the efforts of us all, prove that he [Martin Luther King] was not a mere dreamer when he spoke of the beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace being more precious than diamonds or silver or gold. Nelson Mandela
All that glisters is not gold. William Shakespeare