Quotes About Blue-collar

My background is standard American blue collar of the itchy-footed variety. We're new-world mongrels. The women in the family read horoscopes, tea leaves, coffee bubbles, Tarot cards and palms.

Having parents who were hard working, blue collar, and staunchly independent, neither political party's positioning really impressed me.

I think a lot of blue collar people related to me because a lot of people work for their money.

I'm a juvenile product of the working class, who's best friend floats in the bottom of a glass.

My father was a real interesting cat. He fixed conveyor belts for a living. He was a blue-collar worker, but at night he dressed like a player.

There's something about Detroit, man: there's a serious vibe there. It could be that blue-collar, working-class-mentality person who lives out there. There's just something about it. It reminds me of Alaska. Texas has the same thing. Detroit is a little heavier than both.

Lots of hardworking, blue-collar people across America have lost their jobs since the 1990s - victims of the globalist policies of the Bushes and Clintons.

It was a source of shame for my family that I was in rock and roll, which is so blue-collar. It just isn't done. And I felt it, too.

Ninety percent of my best friends back home are plumbers, electricians, builders, or landscapers. Most of our dads worked in trades.

Catholic and Italian boys whose fathers worked on the docks at the port

My dad was a roofer; my mom worked in elementary school.

Americans, whether armed or not, were still looking everywhere but at social class when parsing the texture of their lives. It wasn't so much that stressed-out blue-collar folks were clinging bitterly to their guns and religion, as Barack Obama had posited while running for president. It was more that guns and religion were keeping them from feeling bitter about the indignities inflicted on the middle class.

My dad's family were pretty working class, actually.

Factory jobs never became pleasant. But at least blue-collar work now enabled a middle-class existence, with all its consumption possibilities and lifestyle opportunities.

My family moved to York, Pa., when I was eight. As a kid I spent virtually all of my free time at Memorial Park, which was just down the street from my house on Springdale Avenue in our blue-collar neighborhood.

I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family.

My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a working man, a quiet, blue-collar dude.

I always loved clothes. I grew up in a blue-collar family, but I loved old movies and seeing all those dashing leading men.

My father was a manual worker.

the unintended consequence was to marginalize the blue-collar unions and public officials who had been the pillars of the party structure, and replace them with educated activists tied to single issues or to particular presidential campaigns.

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.

Like the alien stepping out of the space capsule in The Day The Earth Stood Still, Todd Rundgren set his platform-heeled boots down on the streets of Flint, Michigan, looking roughly 110 per cent more glam than anyone else in the blue-collar town.

But it's much more exciting to make Die Hard. One of the reasons that I think that movie is so successful is it deals with those very important blue-collar relationship themes. But it's more visually beautiful to show things blowing up. It just gives you more on the screen.