Coal Quote by Quincy Jones

My grandmother's house - she ran it just like her grandmother and her great-grandmother. They didn't have electricity. They had wood stoves that never…

— Willard Scott

In 1841 you and I had together a tedious low-water trip, on a Steam Boat from Louisville to St. Louis. You may remember, as…

— Abraham Lincoln

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 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

I remember, this one time, one of my best friends was living with us for a little while, this place we were renovating. We…

— Jonathan Scott

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

My mother and father were middle-class, and my grandmother lived in the ghetto, so I used to spend my summers at her house.

— Sisqo

I grew up in Kentucky, but I did not grow up like that. I had heat, and I didn't have to shoot my dinner…

— Jennifer Lawrence

When I was about 8 or 9, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom and…

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr

I had to leave, and my husband was forced to stay on this plantation until after the harvest season was over. And then the…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

I was raised in the suburbs. I wasn't on a plantation or anything.

— Samuel Ervin Beam

Please remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.

— Afeni Shakur