Quotes About Blue-collar

Green Bay is a blue-collar community, and it's all about the Packers. I was able to go there, slow down and focus on the game.

Taft-Hartley had excluded foremen and supervisors from labor-law coverage, which made workplace unity more difficult because fewer new jobs were blue-collar in character and more positions in the emerging service fields were designated as supervisory, meaning

'Detroit 1-8-7' - the numbers are police slang for murder - is filmed in that blue-collar Michigan city, providing a flavor of authenticity. Detroit offers a unique visual landscape that tells the story of the city and what it's been through.

For decades, the GOP has faithfully served the rich, corporations, polluters and purveyors of pure, unadulterated greed, and brought blue-collar white voters along for the ride with promises of cultural revival.

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What you learn growing up in a place like Buffalo is that your job isn't just your paycheck, it's your identity. It doesn't just give you dollars, it gives you dignity.

I'd never put all my chips anywhere, because I don't want to close any doors, but I was raised in a very blue-collar family. I was raised by parents who said, 'If you don't go to work every day, you're not contributing', so that's my mentality. I have to work every day; I have to bring home a paycheck.

The only honourable work my parents knew was blue-collar. But while my father Robert ran a pawnbroker's shop, and my mother was a waitress, I moved into a middle-class world with a level of security they never knew.

I'm a blue-collar American who enjoys life and who just happens to be good at punting footballs.

I figure I can be artistic, but I work like a blue-collar person, too, and I'm serious about that.

I have so much respect for people who do blue-collar work because I come from that background myself.

My personality is that I'm a human being like everybody else, just a citizen and a blue collar guy.

I served in the Army. I worked at blue-collar jobs. I washed dishes and bused tables.

My mother was a seamstress, my father an itinerant carpenter.

I'm a blue-collar Chicago girl raised on wonderful movies my mom took us to, ones that had a lot of heart.

I love just working. I love the idea of being a working class citizen.

I'm from Buffalo, which is a blue-collar city, and I've kind of embraced that.

My mom was a waitress, and my dad was a plumber who worked for the City of San Clemente fixing mains breaks, so not too glamorous.

My parents were workers. My mom, especially in my high school years, was a stock clerk at Kmart... My dad was a bartender that worked banquets.

My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company.

And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.

I grew up a plumber's son in Philadelphia.

I come from a blue collar family, but my personal life isn't. I didn't get the gene that my grandfather had in spades. He was a local hero. Built the church that I went to. Built the house I grew up in. Steamfitter, pipefitter, electrician, mechanic and plumber. I wanted to do those things. But it just didn't come easy.

I am a plumber. Just a plumber.