Miners Quotes

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We could manage to survive without money changers and stockbrokers. We should find it harder to do without miners, steel workers and those who cultivate the land.

I went back in British history. Some 204 people died there after a mine collapsed in 1838. In 1866, 361 miners died in Britain. In an explosion in 1894, 290 people died there.

During the Gold Rush, most would-be miners lost money, but people who sold them picks, shovels, tents and blue-jeans (Levi Strauss) made a nice profit.

All artists as a type seem to suffer a great deal, but then so do miners.

Of course, it's always bad to lose, of course it's always a hardship when you lose to yesterday's miners or yesterday's tractor drivers. But life is life. It'll surely go on.

The City of London and Wall Street are not going to be great places to be in the next two or three decades. It's going to be the people who produce real goods in charge – the farmers and the miners.

Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives

Some miners would have 20 pints after a hard day in the mine. Now that we sit behind computers all day, this is down to 18 or 19 pints.

My father and brothers were coal miners.

The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.

I've spent my whole working life standing up for workers. Didn't matter if it was the two trapped miners at Beaconsfield or professional netballers or indeed factory workers or construction workers.

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

My desire to get here [Parliament] was like miners'coal dust, it was under my fingers and I couldn't scrub it out.

Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.

I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal.

In West Virginia, we're all family. We know how firefighters and policemen honor their own and we feel our miners deserve to be honored in a similar way.

You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy best among miners; and so with everything else.

I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf

The CM stands for Cole Miner.

Tourism is important because it can create sustainable local economies. Id much rather have 1,000 tourists going up the Tambopata than 1,000 gold miners.

You'd rather own gold; not the miner

My administration will put our coal miners and our steel workers back to work.

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.

I've got the body of a model and the face of a coal miner.

Coal miners don't get coal miners' block.

Every time you warm yourself in front of a hot coal stove, remember the coal miners in the cold dark corridors and pray for them!

After the miners' rally, when I saw how emotional everyone got when I sang, I thought I might get somewhere with singing

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

I remember being very influenced by 'Taxi Driver', and also Tommy Lee Jones in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' a little bit.

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

I didn't even watch the soaps when I was in them because it's like a coal miner coming home and staring at the coal scuttle - I was never a great lover of watching myself act.

The national strike of the miners in 1972 performed, I believe, a great service, not only to the miners, but the people in Britain today who wanted coal.

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

It is brought home to you...that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior.

Writer is a miner; he works in the gloomy places like a miner to get the precious material.

Working in the tea fields under a beautiful sunshine is the dream of all the miners.

Coal is not dear for the coal-miner who can use it there and then, nor is khadi dear for the villager who manufactures his own khadi.

My father was a miner and he worked down a mine.

My parents were so proud when I got a scholarship to go to theatre school - it was unheard of that a coal-miners son should go to drama school.

I believe the nearest I've come to perfect love was with a young coal-miner when I was about 16.

I think someone in the union has the right to a private vote, and that's why I'm anti-card check. I grew up in a union family. My grandfather was a coal miner; he was in the union.

Hillary Clinton wants to put all the miners out of business.

Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives.

Here, are the stiffening hills, here, the rich cargoCongealed in the dark arteries, Old veinsThat hold Glamorgan's blood.The midnight miner in the secret seams, Limb, life, and

What do you see out there?” I ask. “Pittsburgh, ” he replies. Now I laugh. “No, young man. What you see is hell with the lid taken off.” — Mother Jones

Go home now, ” says I. “Keep away from the saloons. Save your money. You are going to need it.”“What are we going to need it for?” asks a voice from the crowd.“For guns and ammunition, ” says I.

Democracy is supposed to be ‘of the people, by the people and for the people’. Capitalism is ‘of the capitalist, for the capitalist’. Period.

How shall a society remember its miners underground while it cannot even remember its homeless above ground?

Although they probably know that some children were used and some children are used as miners, most adults are ignorant of the chocolate industry’s use of minors.