I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My father and brothers were coal miners.
Growing up, I didn't know anybody who didn't have a miner in the family. Both of my grandfathers were miners.
My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer.
My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pennsylvania.
My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to them, meant the place to go if you really wanted an education.
I came from a very, very small valley in the middle of South Wales. I grew up there with my father, who's a coal miner, and my mother worked in a normal factory.
I come from a line of railroad men. My great-grandfather was a surveyor for the Burlington Railroad.
My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company.
I come from a very working class background. My dad worked in a factory for 40 years. We all put ourselves through school.
When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.