Top 1200 Blue Collar Workers Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Many blue-collar families struggling to pay rent would be happy to skip paying optional union dues.

The NBA is a big family, and I think of all these rookies as my brothers. I still believe I am blue collar among the All-Stars.

I've come to learn it's a luxury to be a sort of blue collar celebrity in Canada. It makes you more humble.

I'm from working-class, blue-collar America, and I don't believe that people in that socioeconomic strata wait until they're 40 to have children.

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.

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

In my Inaugural I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By "business" I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of decent living.

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

I have that blue-collar mentality. I've always played with a chip on my shoulder, and I've always been hungry to learn.

Montreal is a great town. There's equal parts blue-collar town.

I'm not the least bit polished, I come from a blue collar background and I never thought I could feel comfortable around the English.

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

Hey, it's tough not to have a ton of admiration for the fans of Baltimore. And, for it me, it's because they are such a hard-working, blue-collar fan base that loves football.

I also have always liked the monster within idea. I like the zombies being us. Zombies are the blue-collar monsters.

I come from a blue-collar, Irish Catholic, pro-Kennedy, pro-union family of Democrats.

The blue collar milieu was something that I really understood and resonated with me and I thought was underrepresented in American cinema.

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.

The Internet is like closing time at a blue-collar bar in Boston. Everyone’s drunk and ugly and they’re going to pass out in a few minutes.

My whole family is extremely blue collar - teachers and police officers probably make up half my family. My father was a garbage man.

This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children's eyes. From the western half of the sky the sun was shying little golden disks at the sea--if you gazed intently enough you could see them skip from wave tip to wave tip until they joined a broad collar of golden coin that was collecting half a mile out and would eventually be a dazzling sunset.

Certainly Roseanne Barr has power, but it seems like it's more acceptable to be heavy if you're lower middle class and blue collar.

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

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

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

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

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

I say that in jest a little bit, but Donald Trump is a blue collar guy with a balance sheet. That's the way he likes to have fun.

In the 1960s, if you were a blue collar worker or uneducated, and you had an injury on the job, the company basically dismissed you.

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.

In some circles Stalin has in fact been making a comeback. His portrait hangs above the dashboard of trucks, a symbol of blue- collar nostalgia for a tough leader.

If you watch the 'Blue Collar Comedy Tour,' don't expect that when you come see me by myself, 'cause it's a little rougher.

My family, for generations, has struggled through the effects of working blue-collar jobs long past the age of retirement.

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

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

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

To me, the responsibility of an actor is to recreate humanity honestly. I never feel like an actor, I always look at it from a blue collar perspective.

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 come from a blue-collar town - and being from that place, you learn not to let anybody take advantage of you. You don't let people mistreat you. You stand up for what's right.

I'm blue collar, which means white trash with a job. But it also means people who take pride in what they do.

Music doesn't have to be fancy. I work hard and enjoy the fact that people want to come to my shows. That's simple, but I'm pretty blue-collar about it.

This assumption that the blue collar crowd is not supposed to read it, or a farmer in his overalls is not to read poetry, seems to be dangerous if not tragic.

Remodeling defies the principles of modern commerce. You shell out great sums of money to people over whom you have no authority or power, yet these same people are constantly insinuating that you're cheap. (It reminded me of medicine, another area where you shell out great sums of money to people over whom you have no authority or power, who make you feel guilty for questioning a bill.) Construction workers are the blue-collar version of the snooty salespeople at Gucci who make $8 an hour but look down on you if you balk at a $400 alligator wallet.

If people don't want blue-collar work, our labour costs will remain high and our competitiveness low.

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

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

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

The beauty of 'Parenthood' is that it's a blue-collar working family, and it reflects attitudinal shifts that occur within people and families.

Every major industry sector in the U.S. would be positively impacted by the USMCA, with blue-collar manufacturing jobs seeing the most significant gains.

Outside of the Moscow elite and a very small urban elite, Russia is one great big blue-collar country.

I was by far the least popular of the Blue Collar crew when we started. There was a definite pecking order, and everybody knew it.

Blue is a tranquilizer, imparting coolness to your system. Blue slows down your system so it can heal and mend. Positive qualities of blue are willpower, aspiration, and reliability. Foods of the blue vibration are: grapes, blackberries, blue plums, blueberries, and any other blue fruits or vegetables.

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.

When I'm back home in Chicago, since 'Roseanne' was such a Midwestern, blue-collar show, that's what sticks out in people's minds.

The blue-collar culture, it's not really a buttoned-up aesthetic. It's a heavy-labor thing because you're, like, sweating.

Now this is the first rule of fight club: There is nothing a blue collar Nobody in Oregon with a public school education can imagine that a million-billion people haven't already done.

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

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

for Christ's sake, were the mountains blue, then chuck on some blue and don't go telling me that it was a blue a bit like this or like that, it was blue wasn't it? Good - make them blue and that's enough!

The NetBeans team tended to be focused on academic purity. Getting them to be a little more blue-collar was a challenge.

I've tried not to get sucked into the Hollywood hierarchy system. Personally, I don't like it when people are deferential to me because I'm an established filmmaker. It's a blue-collar sensibility.