Brother Quote by 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

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, 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 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 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 coal miner in County Durham.

— Fiona Hill

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

— Barbara Ehrenreich

I grew up listening to my dad, a miner who rose through the ranks to be the mine superintendent in Coalwood, W.V. , yelling…

— Homer Hickam

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

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