Brother Quote by Faye Marsay

My father was a miner and he worked down a mine.

— Kevin Keegan

My father and brothers were coal miners.

— Merle Travis

I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.

— Tom Jones

My mom's family was farmers and coal miners. They were very hardworking folks. My dad was an attorney and ran his own firm. He…

— Kendra Scott

My dad was a miner, but he was very much an intellectual. He loved to read.

— Homer Hickam

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

— Barbara Ehrenreich

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 grandfather was a very successful businessman. He started off as an engineer, but moved to sales to management to executive over a long…

— Hank Green

We were all miners in our family. My father was a miner. My mother is a miner. These are miner's hands, but we were…

— Alan Bennett

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

My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pennsylvania.

— Irwin Thomas

My grandfather, born in 1865, was a copper miner from the age of 10. The air down the mines was poisoned with arsenic, and…

— Shakin' Stevens