Top 19 Quotes About The Miners Strike
#1. I feel like the so-called bad guys are never totally bad. I guess it's the closest thing I can do to reality: people act nice but nobody really is nice. We all have to balance that with something dark.
Vincent Cassel
#2. Culture is simultaneously the fruit of a people's history and a determinant of history.
Amilcar Cabral
#3. I know it's been 15 years since the Bills made the playoffs. Well get ready, man, we're going. We are going.
Rex Ryan
#4. I didn't call for a ballot at the start of the miners' strike in 1984. I'll regret that until my dying day.
Neil Kinnock
#5. The setting of 'Billy Elliot' is the British miners' strike of 1984-85, about which the average American playgoer knows absolutely nothing.
Terry Teachout
#6. We shouldn't be profiting from our students who are drowning in debt while giving a great deal to the banks. That's just wrong.
Elizabeth Warren
#7. My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners.
Agnes Smedley
#8. When you really can't affect something, you almost don't wanna wish too hard, because it's just frustrating.
John Oates
#9. I know how it feels to be told that it's all in your mind. It drives you mad.
Sally Brampton
#10. Sometimes we need enemies more than we need friends. Mandy Walker
Laura Wilkinson
#11. Kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers; grace only exists to be fallen from.
Glen Duncan
#12. You have failed in the most base and human of ways
you have not imagined the lives of others.
Michael Cunningham
#13. Unfortunately, opera engagements tend to be made five years in advance, and I don't really agree with that.
Danielle De Niese
#14. You need so much energy and encouragement to write that if someone says something negative, some of that energy goes.
Joyce Carol Oates
#15. For me personally it doesn't matter who is the manager, I'm going to go out there and play for the manager, and play for this uniform as a team.
Jimmy Rollins
#17. The national strike of the miners in 1972 performed, I believe, a great service, not only to the miners, but the people in Britain today who wanted coal
Michael Foot
#18. The strike of the miners in Arizona was one of the most remarkable strikes in the history of the American labor movement. Its peaceful character, its successful outcome, were due to that most remarkable character, Governor Hunt.
Mary Harris Jones
#19. The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most epic visual journeys in all art, one that lasts 30 dynasties spread over 3,000 years.
Jerry Saltz
