Hey, hey, the working man, the working man like me. I ain't never been on welfare, that's one place I won't be. — Merle Haggard
I'm a hard-working girl. I go to the office. I work a normal 9 to 5 job most days. — Petra Stunt
A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist. — Louis Nizer
When you go to work, if your name is on the building, you're rich. If your name is on your desk, you're middle class. And if your name is on your shirt, you're poor. — Rich Hall
Dirt used to be a badge of honor. Dirt used to look like work. But we've scrubbed the dirt off the face of work and consequently we've created this suspicion of anything that's too dirty. — Mike Rowe
Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor. — Ulysses S. Grant
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all. — Sam Ewig
Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell. — Laura Ingalls Wilder
Work is the basis of living. I'll never retire. A man'll rust out quicker than he'll wear out. — Colonel Sanders
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil. — Grover Cleveland
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man. — Benjamin Franklin
Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first. — Brooks Atkinson
A hardworking man is better than a crowd of loafers. — Swedish Proverbs
Short Blue Collar Quotes
Work is the curse of the drinking classes. — Oscar Wilde
Opportunity usually shows up in overalls and looking like work. — Mike Rowe
I'm from where your hustle determines your salary. — Rick Ross
Get back to work all of you! I'm not running a happy factory here. — Mr. Krabs
Most guys at Berklee are going to wind up truck drivers. — Pat Metheny
Sometimes a hard day's work is easier than a lot of things you can meet in life. — Chris LeDoux
He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist — Francis of Assisi
When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis. — Elvis Presley
All I've ever wanted was an honest week's pay for an honest day's work. — Steve Martin
I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family. — R. A. Salvatore
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. — Michelle Obama
There is a big blue sky waiting just behind the clouds.
In the theater we're like blue-collar workers: It's a physical job, you don't make a lot of money, and you're on the road all the time. It's worth it in that it's the best job in the world, but you have to negotiate living in cities that don't always accommodate you. — Randy Harrison
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. — Howard Schultz
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. — Tom Peters
White Collar Quotes
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. — Mike Rowe
White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America. — Sara Paretsky
Forget rich versus poor, white-collar versus blue. It’s now leveraged versus un-leveraged. — Naval Ravikant
I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste. — Johnny Depp
I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes. — Sara Paretsky
Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types. — John Grisham
There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions. — Robert Reich
The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon. — Sara Paretsky
That turned-up collar. The jacket that zipped all the way down the front into a nice fitted shape. The white denim that made my untanned skin look like a color. — Tina Fey
I've met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves... only about you. — Jean Shepherd
The idea that working a blue-collar job and living in a working-class community provides barriers that are unique to your circumstances - that's not a very controversial subject anymore. I think it's something that people on both the Left and the Right probably accept. — James David Vance
I also have always liked the monster within idea. I like the zombies being us. Zombies are the blue-collar monsters. — George A. Romero
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. — Serge Schmemann
Growing up training, I use to get up so early I would wave to the garbage men going by. So, I had this relationship with Blue Collar America and I really liked it. I felt that lots of those people looked forward to me winning. — Gerry Cooney
I think a lot of people see, obviously, the business side of my father. But, I mean, he's just a great guy. We enjoyed the holidays so much. To be able to spend time with him when he's not necessarily working or not doing the political thing, I mean, he's much more of a blue collar American. — Donald Trump, Jr.
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. — Paul Walker
Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar. — Sue Grafton
What is the biggest public forum in the United States? We were told it's the Super Bowl. The ad shows kids working at blue-collar jobs, and the final statement is just written text: Who's going to pay for the trillion dollar deficit? — Joan Blades
I was raised in a very blue-collar family. — Jamie Moyer
I'm a doofus from the Valley, a blue-collar guy. — Adam Carolla
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. — Aaron Feuerstein
When I was five or six, I asked to sing at a big family party, and ever since I got up there in front of everyone in my suit - it had a blue collar, like in 'Scarface' - I had the bug. — Jencarlos Canela
Any man who can look handsome in a dirty baseball suit is an Adonis. There is something about the baggy pants, and the Micawber-shaped collar, and the skull-fitting cap, and the foot or so of tan, or blue, or pink undershirt sleeve sticking out at the arms, that just naturally kills a man's best points. — Edna Ferber
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. — Donald Trump, Jr.
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. — Christopher Lasch
I can't sit and compare my trouble to Brian Wilson but I came from a blue-collar family of fishermen. Music was an escape and a way for me to dream of better things and a better place to be. Let's just say I was an insecure, scared kid. — Michael Buble
I wanted to finish my career as a Steeler. I felt I just fit the mold as far as a blue-collar guy. I may not be the flashiest, most flamboyant wide receiver out there. But I get the job done for my team. — Hines Ward
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. — Michael Jai White
I'm entirely uneducated. I went to public school - public in the American sense - a blue-collar, working-class school. I never got a scholarship, I left when I was 15, never did any exams. — Rupert Graves
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. — Leon Wieseltier
Montreal is a great town. There's equal parts blue-collar town. — Jay Baruchel
I come from a blue collar family, but my personal life isn't. I didn't get the gene that my grandfather had in spades. He was a local hero. Built the church that I went to. Built the house I grew up in. Steamfitter, pipefitter, electrician, mechanic and plumber. I wanted to do those things. But it just didn't come easy. — Mike Rowe
Hip-hop had become overly aspirational and shiny, full of vivid technicolors. Cosmetic fronting was not part of the ethos of our get down. Our get down was more blue collar. Our aspirations were to shine a light on the plight and experience of the inner cities of America. — Lyor Cohen
It's a blue-collar city [Manchester] that's transitioning into a white collar place and people are getting priced out. — Bill Burr
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. — Dan Millman
Now Mitt is not a perfect candidate. He has a number of problems. It's hard for him, for blue collar families like mine to identify with him. It's hard for economic conservatives to identify with him. He needs to do more to reach out to Latinos. — George Pataki
It doesn't make sense. [Republicans are] not for us. You're not for my values. We're working class people mostly and blue collar. We're your cops, we're your firemen, we're your carpenters and the things we need - we need to protect our unions, we need to protect our Medicare, we need to protect the working class person. — John Leguizamo
Vernon Reis opened the world to me through books. He taught me that while I was physically firmly planted in blue-collar Auburn, Washington in the 50s and early 60s, intellectually I could go anywhere, explore anything, and sample exciting new ideas simply by opening a book. — Christine Gregoire
I'd never put all my chips anywhere, because I don't want to close any doors, but I was raised in a very blue-collar family. I was raised by parents who said, 'If you don't go to work every day, you're not contributing', so that's my mentality. I have to work every day; I have to bring home a paycheck. — Katee Sackhoff
My father had a series of blue-collar jobs and never made more than $20,000 a year. When I was seven, he got injured on a job. That was a very important point - because of the injury, he couldn't walk, and the company he was working for did not pay him. There was no compensation. So there was no money and no food. — Howard Schultz
Ed "The Truth Is Illegal" Markey responded to Teamster support for ANWR by dismissively sniffing, it was only "one issue." Luckily, the Democrats have all those other issues dear to the heart of the average blue-collar worker: abortion on demand, gay marriage and taxpayer-funded crucifixes submerged in urine. — Ann Coulter
We didn't do anything fancy. We just played blue-collar baseball. — Lou Piniella
Kidney disease is a low-profile, unglamorous problem, a disease that disproportionately strikes minorities and the poor. Its celebrity spokesman is blue-collar comedian George Lopez, who received a kidney from his wife. — Virginia Postrel
If blue collar jobs are leaving and white collar jobs are outsourced what color collar jobs are left? — Bob Edwards
My family was blue collar, a middle-class kind of thing. My father was born in Detroit, Italian-American. My mother is English. She acted on the stage with Diana Dors. Her parents were French. — Lorraine Bracco
The citizens of Love Canal provided an example of how a blue-collar community with few resources can win against great odds (a multi-billion-dollar international corporation and an unresponsive government), using the power of the people in our democratic system. — Lois Gibbs
I find myself feeling like Oscar in 'Sweat' just by virtue of cleaning the tables, wiping the bar down and picking up everybody's glasses - and not making eye contact, because that's the character. These are working-class, blue-collar people. These are the people I grew up with. It gets under your skin. — Carlo Alban
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