Coal Country

Famous quotes containing the words coal and/or country:

“... gathering news in Russia was like mining coal with a hatpin.”
—Mary Heaton Vorse (1874–1966)

“One of the saddest sights of the slums is to see the thrifty wife of the working man, with her rosy brood of children, used to country air and sunshine, used to space, privacy, good surroundings, cleanliness, quiet, shut up amid the noise and dirt and confusion, in the gloom of the slum.”
—Albion Fellows Bacon (1865–1933)