1.
There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
Margaret Thatcher
2.
I could have been a Judge, but I never had the Latin for the judgin'. I never had it, so I'd had it, as far as being a judge was concerned... I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal.
Peter Cook
4.
Who deserves more credit than the wife of a coal miner? Mother was one.
Merle Travis
5.
All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have.
Arthur Scargill
6.
Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.
Jimmy Breslin
7.
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 of a life-saving drug, of the jet-pilot or the professor of mathematics, the appeal to 'social justice' does not give us the slightest help in deciding.
Friedrich August von Hayek
8.
I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal.
Peter Cook
9.
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
10.
See that little girl? I wanted to marry her mother, but she ran off with a coal miner," "A coal miner? Why did she want a coal miner if she could've had you?" "Because when he sings...even the birds stop to listen.
Suzanne Collins
11.
My administration will put our coal miners and our steel workers back to work.
Donald Trump
12.
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 or maybe five generations.
Gina McKee
13.
Coal miners don't get coal miners' block.
John Green
14.
Every time you warm yourself in front of a hot coal stove, remember the coal miners in the cold dark corridors and pray for them!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
15.
I've got the body of a model and the face of a coal miner.
Jason Flemyng
16.
I remember being very influenced by 'Taxi Driver', and also Tommy Lee Jones in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' a little bit.
Sam Rockwell
17.
Coal is not dear for the coal-miner who can use it there and then, nor is khadi dear for the villager who manufactures his own khadi.
Mahatma Gandhi
18.
The hardest thing I've had to overcome was being from my small coal-mining town of Big Stone Gap, Virginia. My mother was a coal miner for nineteen years, and the expectations of making it out of my town were slim to none.
Thomas Jones
19.
I don't meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers.
Michael Caine
20.
Oh yeah, I would have been a coal miner, I would think, if I hadn't had tuberculosis when I was 12.
Tom Jones
21.
I think someone in the union has the right to a private vote, and that's why I'm anti-card check. I grew up in a union family. My grandfather was a coal miner; he was in the union.
Jim Renacci
22.
I believe the nearest I've come to perfect love was with a young coal-miner when I was about 16.
D. H. Lawrence
23.
I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.
Tom Jones
24.
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
25.
There are a lot of regulations that are really just crushing jobs. Look at the coal miners in the Rust Belt that are getting out of work. Look at the - look at the loggers and the timber workers and the paper mills in the West Coast. Look at the ranchers or farmers in the Midwest with regulations.
Paul Ryan
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I didn't even watch the soaps when I was in them because it's like a coal miner coming home and staring at the coal scuttle - I was never a great lover of watching myself act.
Ross Kemp