Lindsay Fox Quotes

People I grew up with, my family, work in the oil fields. Everyone works a labor job - construction, concrete. All we know is work. It's a physical culture.

My dad started off in scrap metal, real men doing men's jobs.

It felt good doing a physical job, and going home each evening feeling like I had really done a day's work.

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

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

I go home at the end of the day and I rarely talk about what I did that day. So my wife's experience is just like that of anybody else whose husband goes away to a blue collar job and comes home bruised and dirty and often proud of the work that they're doing.

I worked at the Steel Company Of Wales when I was 17. My job was to supply tools to the guys working the blast furnaces.

My family is blue-collar - coal miners and steelworkers. My father was an automobile mechanic, and us boys were brought up to work. I used to pump gasoline at 11 cents a gallon. I thought I would like to be a first-rate mechanic; a respected, hard-working man.

Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.

I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.

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 miner, and my mother worked in a normal factory.

Meat workers may have been looked down upon socially, but at least they were well-paid and were a fit and lively bunch as a result of hard, honest physical work.

I just have this deep kind of connection to reality of being like... in a way, I feel like a dock worker. I want to stay in connection with my dock-worker side, 'cause that's how I grew up.

We have women working in the foundries, stripped to the waist, if you please, because of the heat.

I was never afraid to go back to Pittsburgh and work in the steel mills.

I class myself as a manual laborer.

A lot of what we do at Fox is blue-collar stuff.

Dad was a machinist who had to work hard - harder than any man I have ever known.

It's man's work. My dad was gone at 4:30 in the morning and home at 8 at night, and he worked underground, and the last mine he worked in was 26 inches high in a lot of places. He liked the engineering of it - he liked the moving the earth and being able to extract something and put it back for reclamation. He enjoyed the whole process.

I grew up with a bunch of factory workers.

Have you ever held a job that caused a body part to hurt at the end of the day? Because my feeling is, if you can't answer yes to that question, you are in big trouble in trying to understand the country you live in.

I am the son of a mine worker.

My dad was down the pit and my mother worked in a newsagent.

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

I worked in a chicken factory, in a steel foundry, I worked on the bins for a year or so. It started as a summer job, but I stayed on because I liked it very much. I liked it that it made you very fit, doing all the lifting and that, so I could wear short-sleeved t-shirts, which I'd never been able to do before!