Coal mining Quote by Homer Hickam

We came from the West Virginia coalmines.

— Hank Williams Jr

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 small town in West Virginia called Kenova. It's the city where the plane crashed from Marshall University. I watched…

— Brad D. Smith

When I began to write my books about Coalwood, I was surprised to discover, upon reflection, that it wasn't an ordinary place at all.

— Homer Hickam

The mining towns I describe in the 'Helium-3' novel series are not unlike Coalwood, but there is one major difference: Those towns, rather than…

— Homer Hickam

One day, when we were coming back from school, we saw this big cloud of smoke coming up, and all these fire-trucks in the…

— Valerie June

My dad just left high school in '69, went to Woodstock, and after half a year of college for architecture, just took off for…

— John Gourley

I remember as a little girl going down to the beet fields in the Dakotas and in Nebraska and Wyoming as migrant workers when…

— Dolores Huerta

I come from the coal fields.

— Richard Ojeda

When I was a kid, I was very lucky that I grew up in suburban Virginia, which, at the time, felt like a grey…

— Ian Harding

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

None of the boys from my town made it in the N.H.L.

— Anne Murray