Coal Country

Famous quotes containing the words coal and/or country:

“Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may will call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“What this country really needs is a good five-cent cigar.”
—State of Indiana, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)