Being Quote by John Tiffany

But at the same time I went down into the mines with working miners who are still young men, younger than I am, who…

— Anonymous

I've spent my whole working life standing up for workers. Didn't matter if it was the two trapped miners at Beaconsfield or professional netballers…

— Bill Shorten

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 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

I grew up in Mill Hill. All potteries, mining. Then once Maggie Thatcher closed the pits down, it became a bit depressed.

— Phil Taylor

The business manager was doing fine back in his office while they were out on the line, hungry. And, so they started to see…

— Richard Grimes

The national strike of the miners in 1972 performed, I believe, a great service, not only to the miners, but the people in Britain…

— Michael Foot

I just remember all those days in the unemployment line, stressed out over when my next job was coming.

— Constance Marie

It were depression, too. They cut my wages down once at the foundry. They cut my wages down again. Then they cut my wages…

— Langston Hughes

I grew up with a bunch of factory workers.

— Bobby Cannavale

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

— Faye Marsay

One of the defining experiences of my life came in the mid-1980s. After working for two years as a geologist in Colorado, I lost…

— John Hickenlooper