Miner Quotes

48 quotes by 44 authors

I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner. — Tom Jones
All creation is a mine, and every man a miner. — Abraham Lincoln
Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
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… — Christopher Bollen
I am a firm believer that every few years one needs to shake one's life through a sieve, like a miner in the Yukon. The… — Amy Poehler
Oh yeah, I would have been a coal miner, I would think, if I hadn't had tuberculosis when I was 12. — Tom Jones
I know I'm not a coal miner, but I do long hours and I never complain, and there is nowhere else I'd rather be. So,… — Daniel Radcliffe
I remember being very influenced by 'Taxi Driver', and also Tommy Lee Jones in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' a little bit. — Sam Rockwell
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… — Ann Romney
I can't escape being born in Pike County, Kentucky, grandson of a miner, Luther Tibbs, and his wife, Earlene, and traveling as a child up… — Dwight Yoakam
I SEE thee better in the dark, I do not need a light. The love of thee a prism be Excelling violet. I see thee… — Emily Dickinson
Make friends with pain, and you will never be alone.~Ken Chlouber, Colorado miner and creator of the Leadville Trail 100 mile race — Christopher McDougall
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… — Suzanne Collins
So this was where lust was satisfied. If I'd been an old-time miner I'd have asked for my gold nugget back. — Ava Gardner
Not exactly. You see, Portia and I think that the coal miner thing's very overdone. No one will remember you in that. And we both… — Suzanne Collins
If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself… — Honore de Balzac
I grew up in Manchester, and we were very poor. My father was a miner who joined the Navy during the war and developed a… — Bernard Hill
Rick Santorum is the grandson of a coal miner. His dad was the manager of a V.A. hospital. — Foster Friess
I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal. — Peter Cook
What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union. — Mary Harris Jones

Who Wrote These Miner Quotes

44 authors contributed a total of 48 Miner Quotes, led by these top contributors: