#mining

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

#brood #central #engineer #father #gave

Art is a kind of mining," he said. "The artist a variety of prospector searching for the sparkling silver of meaning in the earth. ↗

— Jane Urquhart

#mining #treasure #art

Here, are the stiffening hills, here, the rich cargo Congealed in the dark arteries, Old veins That hold Glamorgan's blood. The midnight miner in the secret seams, Limb, life, and bread. - Rhondda Valley ↗

— Mervyn Peake

#coal #coal-miner #glamorgan #hills #miners

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#history #human #human nature #keeps #nature

In the first place, it must be remembered that our point of view in examining the construction of a play will not always coincide with that which we occupy in thinking of its whole dramatic effect. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#coincide #construction #dramatic #effect #examining

We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of regarding things, or at Wordsworth's or at Shelley's, by examining almost any one of their important works. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#alone #any #arrive #cannot #dramatic

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

#boy #brother #course #dad #described

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

#boom #documentaries #film #film world #films

Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#determining #endowed #his #man #own

It's a business. If I could make more money down in the zinc mines I'd be mining zinc. ↗

— Roger Maris

#could #down #i #if i could #make