I've spent my whole working life standing up for workers. Didn't matter if it was the two trapped miners at Beaconsfield or… — Bill Shorten Copy Share Image
I learned in the Marines to leave no one behind, but after 34 years in Washington, Mitch McConnell left our coal miners… — Amy McGrath Copy Share Image
But at the same time I went down into the mines with working miners who are still young men, younger than I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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. — Frans Lanting Copy Share Image
If politicians want to save money, that's fine. They can look for all the wasteful spending they want, but not where the… — Homer Hickam Copy Share Image
All creation is a mine, and every man a miner. The whole earth, and all within it, upon it, and round about… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I wrote "Miner's Prayer" after [grandfather] died. I'd gone back to his funeral, and he died in 1979. And I came back… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
“He who thinks in a sunny garden about the miners who work in the dark galleries of mines will understand so perfectly… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Sadly, I wish I had been able to play ["Miner's Prayer"] for [grandfather]. Yeah, I'll never escape the influence of him in… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
I always knew about as a kid, knew that that particular injury at [my grandfather's] finger had been caused in that disaster… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
“Honey, it isn’t democracy that runs this country. Capitalism rules. It does no good to reason with the capitalists or their politicians.… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
“To the RKO motion picture camera at her 100th birthday party: “I pray for the day when working men and women are… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
We were all miners in our family. My father was a miner. My mother is a miner. These are miner's hands, but… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“I go back to the union man and say, “Sir, this is a house of God, not a proper place for a… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
“I am a citizen of this country,” I declare, “and Mr. Mayor, tonight I will be a citizen of this city when… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
My dad played for a coal-mining team in eastern Ohio; he was a very good pitcher. If he hadn't hurt his arm,… — Phil Niekro Copy Share Image
“Arvex led the others into the light. “Wrecked if I ever dash miners again! This is one royal who won’t wipe their… — Jennifer Silverwood Copy Share Image
“What do you see out there?” I ask. “Pittsburgh,” he replies. Now I laugh. “No, young man. What you see is hell… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
“Go home now,” says I. “Keep away from the saloons. Save your money. You are going to need it.” “What are we… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
“Democracy is supposed to be ‘of the people, by the people and for the people’. Capitalism is ‘of the capitalist, for the… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy best among miners; and so with… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Although they probably know that some children were used and some children are used as miners, most adults are ignorant of the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The first horror movie I saw, in first or second grade, was My Bloody Valentine [1981], where there's a deranged killer in… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
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… — Hilda Solis Copy Share Image
All in all I'd rather have been a judge than a miner. And what's more, being a miner, as soon as you… — Peter Cook Copy Share Image
After the miners' rally, when I saw how emotional everyone got when I sang, I thought I might get somewhere with singing — Aselin Debison Copy Share Image
My father was a steel worker and Martin's [Schulz] grandfather was a miner in Saarland. In these occupations, there is a particular… — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
“Writing is hard…Coal mining is harder. Do you think miners stand around all day talking about how hard it is to mine… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
In West Virginia, we're all family. We know how firefighters and policemen honor their own and we feel our miners deserve to… — Ginger Baker Copy Share Image
Instead of attacking and dividing our people, I'll focus on better paying jobs, career and skills training, and apprenticeships. And I'll always… — Andy Beshear Copy Share Image
I had a lovely time growing up. But I was very aware of the miners' strike going on, friends' families collapsing, and… — John Tiffany Copy Share Image
Thatcher had broken the miners' union, all but crushed the Labour Party, dramatically cut back the welfare state, even flirted with a… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
Coal is not dear for the coal-miner who can use it there and then, nor is khadi dear for the villager who… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The strike of the miners in Arizona was one of the most remarkable strikes in the history of the American labor movement.… — Mary Harris Jones Copy Share Image
“They’re a band of miners who aided and abetted an endangered royal named Snow White. They’re basically revolutionaries.” Hey,” — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
Tourism is important because it can create sustainable local economies. I'd much rather have 1,000 tourists going up the Tambopata than 1,000 gold miners. — Frans Lanting Copy Share Image
It is brought home to you...that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Life is as the current spark on the miner's wheel of flints; While it spinneth, there is light; stop it, all is… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
The hardest thing I've had to overcome was being from my small coal-mining town of Big Stone Gap, Virginia. My mother was… — Thomas Jones Copy Share Image
![“I wrote "Miner's Prayer" after [grandfather] died. I'd gone back to his funeral, and he died in 1979. And I came back to California, and I think a couple of weeks after that funeral wrote that song thinking about him, his life.” quote by Dwight Yoakam](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/7d3/dwight-yoakam-9632_california_i-wrote-miner-s-prayer-after-grandfather_2249586.jpg)
![“Sadly, I wish I had been able to play ["Miner's Prayer"] for [grandfather]. Yeah, I'll never escape the influence of him in my life. And my - his wife, my grandmother, Earlene Tibbs - those experiences with them shaped me musically probably more profoundly than anything else in my life and shaped…” quote by Dwight Yoakam](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/7a8/dwight-yoakam-9632_able_sadly-i-wish-i-had-been-able-to-play-min_1035823.jpg)
![“I always knew about as a kid, knew that that particular injury at [my grandfather's] finger had been caused in that disaster that killed his brother-in-law, my grandmother's brother. And he never talked about his own brother's death to me. My mother told me about that and told me about the impact…” quote by Dwight Yoakam](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/3a0/dwight-yoakam-9632_brother_i-always-knew-about-as-a-kid-knew-that-t_1539468.jpg)
![“The first horror movie I saw, in first or second grade, was My Bloody Valentine [1981], where there's a deranged killer in a miner mask stalking a small coal town.” quote by Christopher Bollen](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b46/christopher-bollen-9436_bloody_the-first-horror-movie-i-saw-in-first-or_2480967.jpg)
![“My father was a steel worker and Martin's [Schulz] grandfather was a miner in Saarland. In these occupations, there is a particular awareness of solidarity. That creates links that aren't present in other relationships.” quote by Jean-Claude Juncker](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/05e/jean-claude-juncker-3277_awareness_my-father-was-a-steel-worker-and-martin_416586.png)
