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Encouraging underground uranium mining on the Colorado Plateau um,
the federal government was the only purchaser of uranium
ore to try to manufacture uh,
atomic bombs.
- Tom Udall

We didn’t have movies in this little mining town.
When I was 12 my mom took me to New York and I saw Bye Bye Birdie,
with people singing and dancing, and that was it.
- Margot Kidder

Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission.
- Stewart Udall

My mother’s a secretary; my father’s an electrician in a world-mining-companies.blogspot.company.
- Eva Herzigova

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My great-grandfather was a coal miner,
who worked in Pennsylvania mines when carts were pulled
by mules and mines were lit by candles.
Mining was very dangerous work then.
- Tim Murphy

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 C. Smith

He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit,
his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit,
and of course he would go down the pit.
- Barbara Castle

I didn’t write because in the corps I took mining engineering of all things and,
you know, they, they graduate a mining engineer as a sort of an illiterate.
- Rube Goldberg

It’s a business.
If I could make more money down in the zinc mines I’d be mining zinc.
- Roger Maris

My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager,
gave his brood many advantages not least of which,
for me, was his love of singing which gave music a
central place in our lives.
- James W. Black

The coal mining industry is very destructive and it doesn’t have to be.
- Kevin Richardson

Ten years ago I was not heavily involved in the film
world but on reflection it was a boom time with the mineral boom happening,
so there was immense growth for industrial training films,
documentaries to do with the mining,
and the outback world.
- Ann Macbeth

In that sense, I became politicized because the people
in the coal mining villages who were involved in the
struggle knew why they were there.
But they couldn’t understand why some pop star from
London would want to be there.
- Billy Bragg

All the energy of the universe is mine
to use as spirit directs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine,
a possession for all time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

That’s a big goal of mine, to try and grow as much
of my own food as possible.
- Daryl Hannah

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
- Emily Bronte

I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult.
It’s not.
Mine had me trained in two days.
- Bill Dana

Goes the song, “we change, we change.”
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed
in any subject as I am in mine.
- Charles Darwin

I am the Wizard. This world is mine.
I speak. It’s done. My realm is fine.
My wand, my tongue. My sword, my voice.
It’s good. It’s bad. I speak my choice.
I say happy, or I say mad.
I say angry, or I say glad.
I name that drawing on the wall.
It’s not graffiti after all.
The past has been broken. The prison’s not real.
My word holds the magic – the power to heal.
Intent is my weapon – a sword from above.
Cruel hate, fear, and anger transmute into love.
This world’s my joy. This mouth’s my toy.
Reborn -I’m a brand new girl or boy.
I choose. I speak. My will is done.
Come join. Come play. This can be fun.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take
total responsibility for our attitudes.
That’s the day we truly grow up.
- John C. Maxwell

I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced
that my looks were hideous.
Adolescence is painful for everyone,
I know,
but mine was plain weird.
- Uma Thurman

I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and
touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed.
These things, to me, are expressions of love.
- James Herriot

A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
- Alfred Hitchcock

I am merely a bit player in your stories,
as you are merely a bit player in mine.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right
to kill me because he lives on the other side of a
river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine,
though I have not quarrelled with him?
- Blaise Pascal

If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it,
I should not mind a bit.
but if a friend of mine had a sorrow
and refused to allow me to share it,
I should feel it most bitterly.
If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me,
I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted
so that I might share in what I was entitled to share.
If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him,
I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.
- Oscar Wilde

I mean, when it’s time to rhyme rhyme,
I can get down for mine.
- Missy Elliot

I started working with friends of mine and that,
to some degree, continues.
- Jim Jarmusch

All my pupils are the creme de la creme.
Give me a girl of an impressionable age,
and she is mine for life.
- Muriel Spark

Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field.
- Jerry Stiller

Everyone has his superstitions.
One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere,
accomplished.
- Ulysses S. Grant

I’m thinking in terms of a point of departure,
a field of action for performers to express an expressive
need of mine which hopefully the context of music would convey.
- John Eaton

I guess professionally it began when Hal Hartley used
some music of mine in his film The Unbelievable Truth.
- Jim Coleman

I have heard your views.
They do not harmonize with mine.
The decision is taken unanimously.
- Charles de Gaulle

Hemingway hated me.
I sold 200 million books, and he didn’t.
Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents,
but still…
you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt.
- Mickey Spillane

After I got over the terrible pain of having something of mine taken from me,
I began to think how bad everybody else must be feeling.
It wasn’t a nice time.
- Lena Horne

I have seen doctors, in good faith, leave patients on steroids for years,
thinking they are doing right.
A friend of mine was on steroids for so long,
she has severe osteoporosis.
- Mary Ann Mobley

It was just one of those moments in the universe that was mine.
- Carlton Fisk

I have some road rage inside of me.
Traffic, especially in L.A., is a pet peeve of mine.
- Katie Holmes

To this light, then, would I recommend all,
with mine own soul, – to this sure way of salvation.
- Elias Hicks

In the South or in the mine country,
wherever you point the camera there is a picture.
- Ben Shahn

Love is an obsession.
It has that quality to it.
But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them.
- Pamela Stephenson

It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine
to be no longer a part of my mind,
but totally public.
- Maya Lin

We’re not saying that you don’t need coal,
but when you do mine the coal there are responsibilities to it.
It may cost a little more, but it is the right thing to do.
- Kevin Richardson

I think we all have madness in us, it’s just that I’ve
realized mine and found a way to let it out.
- John Glover

You may invite the entire 35th Division to your wedding if you want to.
I guess it’s going to be yours as well as mine.
We might as well have the church full while we are at it.
- Bess Truman

I am not in this world to live up to other people’s expectations,
nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.
- Fritz Perls

I never thought I’d land in pictures with a face like mine.
- Audrey Hepburn

After wrestling with myself for six months,
I began medical treatment.
During that time I started a band with some friends
of mine called Jack’s Car,
but that didn’t last.
- Jack Irons

I stepped on a land mine named Jayson Blair.
- Howell Raines

A mate of mine said recently said a lot of stuff sounds
like you’re listening to it outside,
but also like you’re surrounded by it,
and I think that’s quite similar.
- Sean Booth

Trade is nothing else but a Commutation of Superfluities;
for instance: I give mine,
what I can spare, for somewhat of yours,
which I want, and you can spare.
- Dudley North

I’ll get mine in a few years, when I get up there and when the time comes.
- Nick Johnson

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

When I was 12, every little girl in Russia was trying
to wear her hair like mine and playing tennis.
- Anna Kournikova

Don’t you wish you had a job like mine? All you have
to do is think up a certain number of words!
Plus, you can repeat words!
And they don’t even have to be true!
- Dave Barry

Deep Throat is a guy who could have your files and mine in his trust.
- Chuck Colson

I think about the meaning of pain.
Pain is personal.
It really belongs to the one feeling it.
Probably the only thing that is your own.
I like mine.
- Henry Rollins

In the Thirties, when I was in New York,
I did the first surrealistic ballet in a show of mine.
- Vincente Minnelli

I really believe that everyone has a talent,
ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.
- Dean Koontz

I thought I’d begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare,
but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.
- Spike Milligan

No one who ever had lessons would have a swing like mine.
- Lee Trevino

It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful,
but it is mine if I do not give.
To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I respect his talents, even as he does mine.
- Jayne Meadows

I’ve had every advantage in the world,
despite the 18 years of silence which were nobody’s fault but mine.
- Gordon Getty

Perhaps the greatest challenge has been trying to keep
my time to myself and my private life private in order to do my job.
Everything that is most mine belongs to everyone now.
- Sandra Cisneros

Actually, my correspondent’s language is better than mine.
He can put his sentiment into words.
- Alfred Day Hershey

It’s great when you find somebody you’re compatible with,
but I’m really into separate bedrooms.
You live your life and I live mine.
- Claudia Christian

Well, actually yes, in 1988.
There was a warrant for me because my assistant hadn’t paid a ticket of mine.
- Esai Morales

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie