Richard Grimes Quotations

Shocked, I don't know how this man could do something like this when we were paying him faithfully

Reward the young for their efforts and they will reward you by their achievements.

We must endure the monotony of evryday work to be able to finance our dreams.

Standing in the ring awaiting the first round to start is not the time to think; I wish I'd trained for this. 

You can change your direction in life at anytime, provided you have one. 

We had had several mine disasters where workers, some of the workers were rescued. It was, you know, who was lucky and who weren't. Some would find the air pockets But, in this one, bam, it was just, everybody was gone and it greatly depressed the state.

You know, when something like, even like a coal mine disaster, or something like this, you think that well everybody's going to make a run to be able to get out, but it happened to fast that they were just all dead.

Every dime I have is tied up with Michael Guy Simmons and I have no money to go anywhere

The smallest pleasures hold the greatest treasures like the smallest treasures hold the greatest pleasures.

The business manager was doing fine back in his office while they were out on the line, hungry. And, so they started to see a lot of that and there was, that maybe the leadership had its own cause. More so than the miners, you know, it was like a power struggle.

It's like there was the Union, and then there's the Union Management. In some of the strikes that I covered when I saw the strike starting to break, wasn't necessarily when Management was giving in, more so than when the strikers were at odds with the Union Management.

Take a chance and start to advance or make a retreat and face defeat. 

It took about six years to get the Black Lung stuff. It didn't come just instantly. Sometimes, I see lobby groups, today, upset because they work the whole session and nothing happens.

I can remember going back a couple of years later and, you know, think about it and I was doing a, kind of a political survey, door to door, and everything and I couldn't find any men in the town. It was very strange, you know.

A great business man must have two stock answers when asked by a client to jump; How quick and how high?