34 Miners Quotes for You to Enjoy

Mining is a dangerous profession. There's no way to make a mine completely safe: These are the words owners have always used to excuse needless deaths and the words miners use to prepare for them. Tawni O'Dell

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I'm the only candidate which has a policy about how to bring economic opportunity - using clean, renewable energy as the key - into coal country, because we're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business. Hillary Clinton

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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

All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have. Arthur Scargill

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My family is blue-collar - coal miners and steelworkers. My father was an automobile mechanic, and us boys were brought up to work. I used to pump gasoline at 11 cents a gallon. I thought I would like to be a first-rate mechanic; a respected, hard-working man. F. Murray Abraham

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A distant cousin sent me some genealogy report on my father's side, and it's sort of what I suspected. Coal miners for generations... four or maybe five generations. Gina McKee

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Predators, they're the best coal miners' canary. When they're gone, you've got a sick ecosystem. Henry Paulson

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Well, I'll tell you, one of things I'm proud of is for someone from Southern California, who didn't grow up around coal mines, I learned a lot that tragic day we lost twenty-nine miners at Upper Big Branch coal mine. Hilda Solis

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My father lost an eye to a snapped cable while trying to rescue trapped miners, though he kept on working for fifteen years afterward. Homer Hickam

Father Lost Trapped Miners Though Eye Cable He Years Snapped Trying Afterwards While Fifteen Working Rescue Kept

A Yorkshire coal mine during the war was my first workplace. I was 18, and when I was called up, I thought I'd go into the RAF. But my number got pulled out of Ernest Bevin's hat, and I went down the pit as a Bevin boy to replace all the able-bodied miners who went to war. Jimmy Savile

I had a lovely time growing up. But I was very aware of the miners' strike going on, friends' families collapsing, and people being unemployed. John Tiffany

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I wrote '33 Men' in eight weeks. Not only was it a combination of simultaneously writing and interviewing, but as I dug deeper into the miners' story, I found the key to their success was the ability to place their individuality on the back burner and bring forward the sense of a collective group responsibility. Jonathan Franklin

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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

Wyoming is a special place: Where our farmers and ranchers rise before dawn and work until night to feed our nation. Where our coal miners and oil field workers produce the energy that powers America's homes and businesses, and where our families are guided by faith, know the value of hard work, and deeply love our land. Liz Cheney

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I joined the Communist Party when I was 18. When I was 10, there was the miners' strike, and the Cold War was going on; it was quite a potent time to get involved in politics. I got involved through my grandfather, who was a member. Maxine Peake

My father and brothers were coal miners. Merle Travis

Father Miners Brothers Were Coal

I don't meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers. Michael Caine

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What are we going to do as automation increases, as computers get more sophisticated? One thing that people say is we'll retrain people, right? We'll take coal miners and turn them into data miners. Of course, we do need to retrain people technically. We need to increase technical literacy, but that's not going to work for everybody. Oren Etzioni

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I don't think that all the coal miners - or even more realistically, say, the truck drivers whose jobs may be put out by self-driving cars and trucks - they're all going to go and become web designers and programmers. Oren Etzioni

I remember being amazed that actors had a union. I thought only coal miners had unions, or guys that worked in automobile plants. That's an indication of how naive I was. Peter Falk

Remember Plants Thought Unions Miners Indication Guys Only Had Naive How Amazed Being Automobile Worked Coal Union Actor

I come from a family of coal miners. Richard Ojeda

Family Miners Come Coal

A word about blue jeans, which, when I was growing up, were called dungarees, one of the more unfortunate marketing ideas of our time: Starting as a work garment for miners, the ubiquitous blue jeans became a staple of the counterculture starting when Brando wore them in 'On the Waterfront' and remained so through the anti-war protests of the '70s. Roger Stone

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