“being a miner he sat on his heels more comfortably than on a chair” — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
Who deserves more credit than the wife of a coal miner? Mother was one. — Merle Travis Copy Share Image
My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pennsylvania. — Irwin Thomas Copy Share Image
“Behold your nakedness as a precious stone, which not every miner is able to dig it out.” — Gloria D. Gonsalves Copy Share Image
My dad was a miner, but he was very much an intellectual. He loved to read. — Homer Hickam Copy Share Image
“If there is one man to whom I do feel myself inferior, it is a coal-miner.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner. — Tom Jones Copy Share Image
“Don’t matter if you care,” the old miner said, “if you don’t own what you care about.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
My grandad was a miner. My father, brother, and uncles all work in industry. — Faye Marsay Copy Share Image
Oh yeah, I would have been a coal miner, I would think, if I hadn't had tuberculosis when I was 12. — Tom Jones Copy Share Image
I know I'm not a coal miner, but I do long hours and I never complain, and there is nowhere else I'd… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
“I’m a miner, and I’m always dirty, because I’m constantly digging. Am I shoveling for gold? Hardly. I’m unearthing this hearty land… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
My great-grandfather was a coal miner, who worked in Pennsylvania mines when carts were pulled by mules and mines were lit by… — Tim Murphy 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 came from a very, very small valley in the middle of South Wales. I grew up there with my father, who's… — Aneurin Barnard 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
“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
“That’s the way mining is. You always find a way to cheat fate,” he says. “That’s what’s beautiful about being a miner:… — Héctor Tobar Copy Share Image
“The miner who suffers nature's wrath in explosions, landslides, falls, and silicosis, or black lung disease, has been a representative figure of… — Elizabeth Quay Hutchison Copy Share Image
“Mr. Brooker, though out of work for two years, was a miner by trade, but he and his wife had been keeping… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“There are many arts and sciences of which a miner should not be ignorant. First there is Philosophy, that he may discern… — Georgius Agricola Copy Share Image
“She Is Remarkable Salute to the woman who knows who she is And why she is who she is A powerful being… — Gift Gugu Mona Copy Share Image
Rick Santorum is the grandson of a coal miner. His dad was the manager of a V.A. hospital. — Foster Friess Copy Share Image
“I’m the new age miner, going to work at the company’s gold mines, where they charge me for the pick axe” — Volatalistic Phil 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
Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
My dad was a miner at South Kirkby colliery. He went on strike but he didn't go to the picket line, he… — Gail Bradbrook Copy Share Image
“A society must create lots of sunshine for its miners as they need the sun most! And ‘to be remembered, to be… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I didn't even watch the soaps when I was in them because it's like a coal miner coming home and staring at… — Ross Kemp Copy Share Image
I married a miner myself. I had ten children. I've got seven now; thirty-one grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. And I'm happy to… — Florence Reese Copy Share Image
“time to put on your miner's hat and headed toward the bright light.” — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
