Coal Miners Quotes

• 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!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Dark, Hot, Cold

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

  William Shatner

  Inspirational, Success, Hard Work

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

  Tom Jones

  Father, Class, Backgrounds

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Jimmy Breslin

  Football, Games, Streets

  "A talk with Jimmy Breslin, New York's "New Yorkiest" writer" by Jerry Schwartz, www.businessinsider.com. March 19, 2017.

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• My father and brothers were coal miners.

  Merle Travis

  Brother, Father, Coal Mining

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

  Jason Flemyng

  Body, Faces, Models

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• There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Women, Rights, Downing Street

  Quoted in Woman's Own, 31 Oct. 1987

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

  Arthur Scargill

  Underestimate, Economic, Trade

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

  Tom Jones

  Thinking, Tuberculosis, Yeah

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

  Donald Trump

  Steel, Administration, Back To Work

  Source: www.npr.org

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

  D. H. Lawrence

  Believe, Perfect, Sexuality

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• We can decide that the presence of cancer-causing substances in our air, water, and food is too expensive. A 2009 study, for example, has found that coal miners in Appalachia costs the region five times more in premature deaths, including from cancer, than it provides to the region in jobs, taxes, and economic benefits. In California, the production and use of hazardous chemicals cost the state $2.6 billion in 2004 alone in lost wages and health-care expenses to treat workers and children with pollution-linked diseases.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Jobs, Children, Cancer

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• See that little girl? I wanted to marry her mother, but she ran off with a coal miner," "A coal miner? Why did she want a coal miner if she could've had you?" "Because when he sings...even the birds stop to listen.

  Suzanne Collins

  Girl, Mother, Bird

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• I want the coal miners, who've been American heroes, who kept the lights put on for black people and white people for a hundred years, and who now are too sick to work, I want them to be able to go see a doctor. I don't care who they vote for. I don't care if they vote for a Tea Party Republican, I'm fighting for you because I voted for you to live in a country where we don't have disposable people.

  Van Jones

  Country, Hero, Party

  Source: pen.org

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• The hardest thing I've had to overcome was being from my small coal-mining town of Big Stone Gap, Virginia. My mother was a coal miner for nineteen years, and the expectations of making it out of my town were slim to none.

  Thomas Jones

  Mother, Virginia, Years

  "Actor Thomas Q. Jones: Making it out of a small town and a positive perspective on failure". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Use, Dear, Coal

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.102, Rajpal & Sons

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

  Merle Travis

  Mother, Deserve More, Wife

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• 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

  Hurt, Dad, Team

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• 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

  Jobs, Dad, Kids

  Ann Romney's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.npr.org. August 28, 2012.

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• 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.

  Ross Kemp

  Home, Great Love, Watches

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

  Peter Cook

  Fall, Judging, Absence

  British comedy stage revue "Beyond the Fringe" written and performed by Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Alan Bennett, and Jonathan Miller ("Sitting on the Bench", 1961), 1960-1966.

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• Coal miners don't get coal miners' block.

  John Green

  Block, Coal, Miners

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• My father was a mailman. His father was a coal miner. My mother's mother could barely speak English. And their son today stands on this podium in the great state of Ohio not only as the governor, but a candidate for president of the United States.I do believe in miracles.I've had a lot of elections. But my elections are really not about campaigns. I tell my people that these are about a movement.A movement to do things like provide economic growth. And a movement not to let anybody be behind.

  John Kasich

  Mother, Father, Believe

  GOP Debate, www.cbsnews.com. August 07, 2015.

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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

  Cousin, Father, Generations

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Sam Rockwell

  Daughter, Mother, Littles

  "Sam Rockwell on Outsiders, Mischa Barton and Their Lost Indie Gem Lawn Dogs" by Michael Adams, movieline.com. August 28, 2009.

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