This collection holds 482 coal quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Lynn Good, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Steven Chu.

They are ordered so that each author has a say before anyone repeats, which means the first page gives you the range of the topic rather than one writer's back catalogue.

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I don't see any new coal.

Coal is a portable climate.

Coal is my worst nightmare.

I come from the coal fields.

Even coal shimmers in the light

The golden era for coal is over.

Coal is a big deal here in Wyoming.

America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.

To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.

...as nervous as a bird in a coal mine.

My father and brothers were coal miners.

Coal miners don't get coal miners' block.

You can't mine coal without machine guns.

Don't save the canary. Fix the coal mine.

My dad was a coal miner in County Durham.

Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.

I'm so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.

I will fight for oil, coal and natural gas.

I've walked on hot coals with Tony Robbins.

Coal mining is tough. Acting is just tedious.

Not all the coal that is dug warms the world.

America was built on cheap and abundant coal.

Not all the coal that is dug warms the world.

Somehow it always comes back to coal at school.

Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.

A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job

No more coals to Newcastle, no more Hoares to Paris.

Social media is the ultimate canary in the coal mine

To hell with the Constitution when people want coal!

I'm like coal under pressure. I turn into a diamond.

Like piles of dry wood with red-hot coals underneath.

Leave the oil in the soil, leave the coal in the hole.

A diamond is just a lump of coal that stuck to its job.

Rumors of coal's demise may have been greatly exaggerated.

After all, game shows are not like working in a coal mine.

I've got the body of a model and the face of a coal miner.

I certainly would like to see the war on coal come to an end.

No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.

A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made good under pressure.

Inside every lump of coal there's a diamond waiting to get out.

Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.

When it comes to global warming, coal is the gorilla in the room.

Writing was like digging coal. I sweat blood. The spell is on me.

The more you get past pain, the more it goes from coal to diamond.

We need to invest in all energy sources, including coal and shale.

I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday).

Without a whole lot of pressure, a diamond is just a piece of coal.

No one wants to stoke coal if he can regulate an oil valve instead.

Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.

We need to replace coal with gas. We need to leave oil in the ground.

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