"The hardest thing I've had to overcome was being from my small coal-mining town of Big Stone Gap, Virginia. My mother was a coal miner for nineteen years, and the expectations of making it out of my town were slim to none."

--

Source : "Actor Thomas Q. Jones: Making it out of a small town and a positive perspective on failure". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

#Mother Quotes #Coal Miners Quotes #Virginia Quotes

“Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.”
“When I was in high school, we were all laboring under the illusion, or maybe it was a reality, that everyone in our school was a virgin.”
“... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession.”
“If it never rained, nothing would grow.”
“If there be a skeptical star I was born under it. Yet I have lived all my days in complete astonishment.”

Source : William Macneile Dixon (1937). “The human situation”
“By trying to control everything we become very neurotic, more and more desperate. It's a huge tragic thing.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“It's not the subject of narration that interests me, but the structure. That's why I stay in touch with my old works, which I reread regularly. I don't hesitate to take up previously used images or even whole scenes.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I find drawing a useful outlet for ideas for which there is not time enough to realize as sculpture... And I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment.”

You may also like:

Cedric Benson
Football player
Chad Pennington
Football player
Curtis Martin
Football player
Jamal Lewis
Football player
LaDainian Tomlinson
Football player
Shaun Alexander
Football player
Steven Jackson
American football player
Tiki Barber
American football running back
Clinton Portis
American football running back