America Quote by Richard Ojeda

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 in Oregon, where as a teenager I worked with my grandfather Axel on his i shing boat at the mouth of…

— Karl Marlantes

My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pennsylvania.

— Irwin Thomas

I'm originally from Hobbs, New Mexico but moved around a lot growing up. My family had a ranch 40 miles from town where they…

— Ryan Bingham

I came from a very, very small valley in the middle of South Wales. I grew up there with my father, who's a coal…

— Aneurin Barnard

I come from a family of coal miners.

— Richard Ojeda

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

My father and brothers were coal miners.

— Merle Travis

I was born here in West Virginia, though I spent a little time in North Carolina when my step-dad got laid off from the…

— Paula Jean Swearengin

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

— Faye Marsay

I grew up in Skaneateles, a small town in New York's Finger Lakes region, where parts of my family have lived for five generations.…

— Kim Edwards

I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a hard rock miner.…

— Harry Reid