Miner Quotes

48 Miner quotes by 44 unique authors

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
My great-grandfather was a coal miner, who worked in Pennsylvania mines when carts were pulled by mules and mines were lit by candles. Mining was… — Tim Murphy
My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pennsylvania. — Irwin Thomas
The more government takes in taxes, the less incentive people have to work. What coal miner or assembly-line worker jumps at the offer of overtime… — Ronald Reagan
With all of his strength he gave a mighty shove; then a miner yelled out there's a light up above! — Jimmy Cliff
Damnit Derek, I'm a coal miner, not a professional film or television actor. -Larry Zoolander — Zoolander
JENA SIX What a disgrase, when a black man can pay and play and get away with rape. What does it say when a black… — Bobby Hazzard
Just because a child does the littlest thing wrong you want to shout after them. Lord, its just one miner thing but when the parents… — Ritu Ghatourey
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 say not a… — Unknown Author

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