Born Quote by Dennis Skinner

I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a hard rock miner.…

— Harry Reid

My grandfather, who brought me up, was a coal miner. I visited the mines with him. I remember it vividly. It was horrible. I'm…

— Paul W. S. Anderson

My father and brothers were coal miners.

— Merle Travis

I grew up in the mining village of Dudley in Northumberland. My father, who was also called Robson Green, worked down the pits.

— Robson Green

My playground growing up was the fields and forests.

— Vic Reeves

When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.

— Barbara Ehrenreich

I was very physical as a child - we lived on a smallholding, and I was always outside making mud pies or building structures…

— Cornelia Parker

I was born and raised up in a small farm.

— Arvind Swami

From the time I was a small boy, I remember working in the fields with my grandfather and father. We weren't growing grapes, but…

— Scott Pruett

A distant cousin sent me some genealogy report on my father's side, and it's sort of what I suspected. Coal miners for generations... four…

— Gina McKee

I grew up on a farm.

— Kelli O'Hara

I grew up on a working farm. It was small, a hundred acres, but we had cows and pigs and chickens and sheep and…

— Henry Paulson