19 Miner Quotes for You to Enjoy

What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union. Mary Harris Jones

Alone Achieve State Corporation Miner Could Powerful Get Achieved Against Union

We were all miners in our family. My father was a miner. My mother is a miner. These are miner's hands, but we were all artists, I suppose, really. But I was the first one who had the urge to express myself on paper rather than at the coalface. Alan Bennett

I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. My dad got his first job when he was six years old, in a little village in Wales called Nantyffyllon, cleaning bottles at the Colliers Arms. Ann Romney

Cleaning Old Job First Miner Mines Kids Out Determined Bottles He First Job Arms Got Am Welsh His Years Wales Get Six Little Granddaughter Coal Who Village Dad

I know I'm not a coal miner, but I do long hours and I never complain, and there is nowhere else I'd rather be. So, yeah, that's how I'd define myself. I want to do it right, and prove people wrong once and for all about the myth of child stars. Daniel Radcliffe

Myself People Long Myth Stars Complain Else Once Define Miner About Rather Long Hours Never Never Complain Wrong Hours Know How Yeah Prove Child Want Coal Nowhere Right

I can't escape being born in Pike County, Kentucky, grandson of a miner, Luther Tibbs, and his wife, Earlene, and traveling as a child up and down Route 23 between Kentucky and Columbus, Ohio, where I was raised, experiencing life via working-class people. Nor do I want to escape. Dwight Yoakam

Life People Wife Down Miner Born Columbus Between County His Nor Up Up And Down Escape Child Via Ohio Being Where Want Experiencing Grandson Working-Class Traveling Route Kentucky Raised Luther

I grew up listening to my dad, a miner who rose through the ranks to be the mine superintendent in Coalwood, W.V. , yelling orders into his black company phone. He wanted to get coal out of the ground and into coal cars and on its way to steel mills. Homer Hickam

Phone Listening Car Black Rose Mine Way Miner Ranks Out Steel Through He His Yelling Up Get Wanted Grew Orders Coal Ground Who Company Dad Mills

My father use to say if coal died, the country died. He was right. Our economy rests on the back of the coal miner. If we did not have the black diamonds of the mountains to burn, we would lose more than half of the nation's energy reserves. Homer Hickam

Father Black Country Half Lose Nation Mountains Energy Back Our Miner Say Would More Rests He Economy Diamonds Than Did Died Burn Coal Use Reserves Right

My dad was a miner, but he was very much an intellectual. He loved to read. Homer Hickam

Miner He Read Intellectual Very Loved Much Dad

The purpose of the Filecoin currency is to create a fungible token that can be spent to hire the miner network to store files. The first and foremost use of the currency is precisely this: locking it up as a reward to miners who successfully store data on the network. Juan Benet

Who deserves more credit than the wife of a coal miner? Mother was one. Merle Travis

Mother Wife Miner More Than Coal Who Deserves Credit

My dad played for a coal-mining team in eastern Ohio; he was a very good pitcher. If he hadn't hurt his arm, he probably would have got a shot somewhere. He hurt his arm one spring, didn't warm up good enough, couldn't throw a fastball anymore. Another coal miner taught him how to throw the knuckleball. Phil Niekro

Good Hurt Somewhere Spring Enough Miner Eastern Would Throw He Arm Him Another Got How His Up Very Pitcher Taught Ohio Anymore Warm Shot Coal Team Dad Fastball Played

You can't take a coal miner making $95,000 a year, the only work in these parts where you can support a family without having to hold down three jobs at once... and tell them, 'You can make minimum wage,' or, 'We can give you job training for jobs that don't exist in West Virginia.' Richard Ojeda

Work Family You Training Job Three Year Down Virginia Once Miner Job Training Tell Minimum Jobs Minimum Wage Give Having Only Take Support Make Parts Without Making Wage West Exist West Virginia Where Hold Them Coal

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

Work Dangerous Miner Mines Mining Pennsylvania Great-Grandfather Were Very Candles Lit Then Worked Coal Mules Who Pulled

Oh yeah, I would have been a coal miner, I would think, if I hadn't had tuberculosis when I was 12. Tom Jones

Think Miner Would Had Yeah Been Tuberculosis Oh Oh Yeah Coal

I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner. Tom Jones

Father Background Miner Come Coal Working-Class

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