I didn't call for a ballot at the start of the miners' strike in 1984. I'll regret that until my dying day. — Neil Kinnock Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Working in the tea fields under a beautiful sunshine is the dream of all the miners. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Predators, they're the best coal miners' canary. When they're gone, you've got a sick ecosystem. — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
My mom's family was farmers and coal miners. They were very hardworking folks. My dad was an attorney and ran his own… — Kendra Scott Copy Share Image
Just like Hillary Clinton is against the miners, she is against the police, believe me. Those peddling, the narrative of cops as… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
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
The City of London and Wall Street are not going to be great places to be in the next two or three… — Jim Rogers 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
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
“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
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
“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
Arthur Scargill’s leadership of the miners’ strike has been a disgrace. The price to be paid for his folly will be immense.… — Jimmy Reid Copy Share Image
“Some miners’ wives take in washing and make more money than their husbands do. In every gold rush from this one to… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
Victorian feminists made the mistake of making membership of the sisterhood conditional on signing up to a particular policy agenda. Marxist feminists… — Naomi Wolf 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
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
My father was a mailman. His father was a coal miner. My mother's mother could barely speak English. And their son today… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
“Meanwhile, two miles down the mine shaft, nineteen men sat in absolute darkness trying to figure out what to do. One of… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
It constantly remains a source of disappointment to me that my drawings are not yet what I want them to be. The… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“It was in ’35—we had this campaign to raise a million tax dollars. In the town of Phillips, one evening, during a… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
As for myself, I do not believe in loggers, I believe in trees. I do not believe in fishermen, I believe in… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
“A woman is like a universe; there are many things that even she still needs to discover about herself. Men on the… — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
It is a pity that so many Americans today think of the Indian as a romantic or comic figure in American history… — Felix S. Cohen Copy Share Image
“Since the 1300s, this job had been performed by members of a small group of families, all living in the hills near… — Robert M. Edsel 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/quotes/i/7d3/dwight-yoakam-9632_california_i-wrote-miner-s-prayer-after-grandfather_2249586.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/quotes/i/3a0/dwight-yoakam-9632_brother_i-always-knew-about-as-a-kid-knew-that-t_1539468.jpg)
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