Coal Quote by Gina McKee

My father and brothers were coal miners.

— Merle Travis

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

— Faye Marsay

I come from a family of coal miners.

— Richard Ojeda

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

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

— Kevin Keegan

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

— Tom Jones

My dad was a coal miner in County Durham.

— Fiona Hill

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 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

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

— Barbara Ehrenreich

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…

— Tim Murphy