Top 1200 Blue-Collar Quotes & Sayings

We didn't do anything fancy. We just played blue-collar baseball.

My parents were blue-collar.

Some people see writing as a white-collar career, but I've always approached it as a blue-collar writer.

We've got the blue-collar pros here in San Diego.

I come from a blue collar background.

If we would change the basis and align what is taught in school with what is needed with business... that's where I came up with this idea of 'new collar.' Not blue collar or white collar.

I always relate respectfully with blue-collar people.

It's a blue-collar city [Manchester] that's transitioning into a white collar place and people are getting priced out.

There's a lot more blue-collar workers out there than the so-called elites.

I'm just a normal guy and blue-collar historian, and people keep tuning in.

If you watch the 'Blue Collar Tour,' I was probably the least redneck of everybody.

If blue collar jobs are leaving and white collar jobs are outsourced what color collar jobs are left?

I think coding is gonna become the blue collar work of the future.

I represent a blue-collar district: people who work at petrochemical plants and machine shops.

I'm still blue collar in my heart. It comes from strong Long Island family roots.

Much of what is euphemistically known as the middle class, merely because it dresses up to go to work, is now reduced to proletarian conditions of existence. Many white-collar jobs require no more skill and pay even less than blue-collar jobs, conferring little status or security.

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

I come from south Louisiana where everyone has a blue-collar work ethic.

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

Where's our Paul Newmans? Where's our Robert Redfords? We've got Jason Statham, who is great... blue collar and cool, which is fantastic. And we've got Hugh Grant, which is great. But where's this crossover, this blue collar guy who is cool? Where is our James Dean? Where is our John Travolta and Steve McQueen?

I'm a blue-collar kid from Colorado. I grew up on a farm.

I think if I'd never had found pro wrestling, I'd be a blue collar guy, working a 9-to-5 job.

The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!

The last blue collar job I had, I was 29. Even 'Childish Prodigy,' I had a day job that whole time. Those early ones, they feel like psychedelic, blue collar records. Especially 'God Is Saying This to You,' there's such urgency in that album.

Part of the reason that women go to college is to get out of the food service, clerical, pink-collar ghetto and into a more white-collar job. That does not necessarily mean they are being paid more than the blue-collar jobs men have.

I think fans cling to me because I'm a blue-collar guy in a blue-collar city.

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

I did a bunch of blue-collar jobs, because I knew I'd wind up with a white-collar job at some point, and I wanted to, I don't know, I just wanted to taste life. I dug graves for a while, I worked as a stock boy in a big department store, I worked in a bank.

I have a responsibility to the worker, both blue-collar and white-collar. I have an equal responsibility to the community. It would have been unconscionable to put 3,000 people on the streets and deliver a deathblow to the cities of Lawrence and Methuen. Maybe on paper our company is worthless to Wall Street, but I can tell you it's worth more.

I came from a blue-collar family where we busted each other's chops and found the funny in tragedies.

I'm a blue collar guy.

I was raised in a very blue-collar family.

I'm not a green like most Democrats would be. I have a blue-collar district.

I come from blue collar. I'm very working class.

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

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

Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar.

I come from a blue-collar family, and I'm just glad for the work.

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

The job market of the future will consist of those jobs that robots cannot perform. Our blue-collar work is pattern recognition, making sense of what you see. Gardeners will still have jobs because every garden is different. The same goes for construction workers. The losers are white-collar workers, low-level accountants, brokers, and agents.

Reporters used to be blue-collar; at the Globe now, it's practically required that you have a trust fund.

I want all of the blue collar American working class people to know that I'm out there fighting for them.

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

America needs football. It's a real blue-collar sport; it's played with a blue-collar mentality, a mentality that's the backbone of this country.

Mr. Trump, you were elected mainly because you found a way to connect with the average blue-collar worker who's sick of the games politicians have been playing for years. Those same blue-collar folks, who go to church, want to feed their families, have to pay their taxes.

There's so much built-up camaraderie and sacrifice, and football is such a tough man's game. I think that's why it's so popular. That's why so many blue-collar communities and people can really feel attracted to this because it is a blue-collar struggle that football players go through.

I think of being an actor as a blue-collar profession.

I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.

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

The flaw in our character is our insistence on separating blue-collar jobs from white-collar jobs, and encouraging one form of education over another.

I'm like a blue-collar writer. I just sit down every day and I write.

People think all wrestlers are millionaires. It's really a blue-collar existence.

I was very blue collar, and I had a great upbringing.

I'm a doofus from the Valley, a blue-collar guy.

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

This idea of 'New Collar' says for the jobs of the future here, there are many in technology that can be done without a four-year college degree and, therefore, 'New Collar' not 'Blue Collar,' 'White Collar.' It's 'New Collar.'

The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles of the white-collar workers.

I have a lot of hard-working, blue-collar people in my district who are at the end of their unemployment benefits.

Zombies are the blue-collar monsters

I live in a blue-collar neighborhood, and if anyone knows what I do for a living, they don't seem to care.