Quotes for All
When we ask what ought to be the relative remunerations of a nurse or a butcher, or a coal miner and a judge at a high court, of the deep sea diver of the cleaner of sewers, of the organiser of a new industry and a jockey, of the inspector of taxes and the inventor … Read more
I know I’m not a coal miner, but I do long hours and I never complain, and there is nowhere else I’d rather be. So, yeah, that’s how I’d define myself. I want to do it right, and prove people wrong once and for all about the myth of child stars. Daniel Radcliffe
I believe the nearest I’ve come to perfect love was with a young coal-miner when I was about 16. D. H. Lawrence
I was really shocked after all of this talk about coal miners and all of this talk about Buy America, the Republicans and the House of Representatives gutted health care and pension protections for coal miners and removed the Buy America provision that had been put in the bill in a bipartisan basis. Claire McCaskill
My parents were so proud when I got a scholarship to go to theatre school – it was unheard of that a coal-miners son should go to drama school. Brian Blessed
All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have. Arthur Scargill
I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. My dad got his first job when he was six years old, in a little village in Wales called Nantyffyllon, cleaning bottles at the Colliers Arms. Ann Romney