Blue-Collar Work Quotes

Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person.

Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?

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

People say writing is really hard. That's very unfair to those who are doing real jobs. People who work in the fields or fix roofs, engineers, or car mechanics. I think lying on your back working under an oily car, that's a job.

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

When you work with your hands, you learn to appreciate how easy it is to earn money talking.

My own father held down two jobs, barely affording the little rented house I grew up in. My dad worked hard, lifted heavy things, and got his hands dirty. The only soap we had at my house was Lava. Heck, I was in college before I found out it wasn't supposed to hurt to take a shower.

My parents, like others of "The Greatest Generation" who lived through the Great Depression and World War II, wanted to provide the best possible life for their children. My mother and father both attended college but dropped out to earn a living during the Depression, working the rest of their lives at blue-collar work.

I go home at the end of the day and I rarely talk about what I did that day. So my wife's experience is just like that of anybody else whose husband goes away to a blue collar job and comes home bruised and dirty and often proud of the work that they're doing.

The manual worker does not have to sell his personality. He doesn't have to sell his smile.

I'm an intellectual, but I've always had jobs that required physical labor above all else.

Television is blue-collar work. You clock in in the morning; you work 12, 13 hours - sometimes 18 hours if you're doing 'Orphan Black.'

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

I was going to be a musician, no matter what it took. I supported myself with blue-collared jobs so I could write music and be in a band and play shows. I even got into an underground art scene. I was going to do whatever.

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

The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs, too - eleven jobs. I worked at Kinko's, Fatburger, Subway - I was a sandwich artist - and I was a claims processor at Allstate Insurance.

The best rappers I know are, like, air-conditioner men.

I haven't been familiar with hard work. It was no problem for me. But first I hitchhiked to Pontiac, Mich. and got a job working in Fisher Body making those 1951 Pontiacs.

My family were really hard-working, blue-collar people, and I didn't know the idea or concept of working and having fun. I thought you just worked and made money to support your family.

I did a lot of blue collar work. I also worked as a temp. I did, you know, light construction and cleaning. I did clerical temping. I also fix cars and motorcycles and electronics.

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

There is rough work to be done, and rough men must do it; there is gentle work to be done, and gentlemen must do it.

I'd rather be a guy that can build a house or fix a car than be able to walk like a ballet dancer.

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

If the acting don't work out, I'll have a future in construction.