Coal Quote by Fiona Hill

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

— Irwin Thomas

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 father was a miner and he worked down a mine.

— Kevin Keegan

My dad was a miner at South Kirkby colliery. He went on strike but he didn't go to the picket line, he just put…

— Gail Bradbrook

My grandad was a miner. My father, brother, and uncles all work in industry.

— Faye Marsay

I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. My dad got his…

— Ann Romney

My father was a coal hewer from Goldthorpe, a coal-mining village in South Yorkshire. He played for the Yorkshire second team as an opening…

— Brian Blessed

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

— Barbara Ehrenreich

My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to them, meant…

— John Knowles

I grew up in a little pit village on the outskirts of Durham.

— Sara Davies

I came from a very, very small valley in the middle of South Wales. I grew up there with my father, who's a coal…

— Aneurin Barnard