Class Quotes

My sympathies have always been for working-class people.

In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

People were going to geometry class and I was swimming through vats of chili on 'Even Stevens.' It was like a dream!

My long experience with all classes of humanity had made me somewhat of a student of human nature.

I'm working class, my family was working class, and we have struggled the same way our neighbors here in San Francisco have struggled.

Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes.

The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.

There are no limits to what I would do to make my classes exciting, interesting, unpredictable.

My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.

The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.

Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which man will never be able to cope.

Andreotti had style and class; Berlusconi does not

We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.

First-class travel, provided one hasn't to pay for it oneself, is the most insidiously addictive of life's luxuries.

Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

I've got to be high class... Which is sad, because I like bars.

In the summer after sixth grade, I took a class at St. Robert Bellarmine. My first role, I was the villain in a play, and I forgot all my lines. I think I cried my way through the performance.

I don't think you can get any more working class than me. Everyone seems posh to me.

If we were second class citizens we'd be driving old Cadillacs and living good. If we were first class we'd be driving a Rolls Royce.

My career came together very quickly. I only trained for four years before I became a professional, so I didn't have a lot of time to sit back and be inspired before I took my first ballet class.

Today, the message is that we have to help the middle class and the aspirational worker in the United States.

A broad definition of crime in England is that it is any lower-class activity that is displeasing to the upper class.

Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture.

I was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when I got there, I was the dumbest person in your class.

One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.

My sisters did ballet when we were younger and I remember sitting in the car with my dad and going 'can we hurry up and go surfing!?, I'm sick of waiting for my sisters and their ballet classes.'

We have yet to beat our drums for birth control in the way we beat them for polio vaccine. We are still unable to put babies in the class of dangerous epidemics, even though this is the exact truth.

In America, the policeman is a working-class hero. In England, the policeman is a working-class traitor.

Each American must remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.

The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.

Since I was the stupidest kid in my class, it never occurred to me to try and be perfect, so I've always been happy as a writer just to entertain myself. That's an easier place to start.

I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.

Untouchability of foreign cloth is as much a virtue with all of us as untouchability of the suppressed classes must be a sin with every devout Hindu.

I know of no system other than Hinduism under which a class has been set apart from generation to generation for the exclusive pursuit of divine knowledge and consigned to voluntary poverty.

If any of you have seen my shows, you know that I don't skimp on them and the same is true for the gym. We spend what it takes to make a globally first-class gym.

I'm a comedian first. I've learned how to act. I just draw on life experiences and that's how I've learned. I didn't take classes or anything. I don't need no classroom.

To be of mixed blood is a great gift for a writer. I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot in middle-class life.

I was a sidelines child: never class president, never team captain, never the one with the most valentines in my box.

Never stop moving, or you'll stop moving. I go to dance class every morning, and it's just good to stay strong; I like being healthy.

But success and failure are not true opposites, and they're not even in the same class. I mean, they're not even a couch and a chair.

I am honored and quite proud that a class is being taught on my sensationalist lyrics, unique style and fashion and leadership role within the hip-hop community.

A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to spiritual sterility.

I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries.

Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.

There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.

It is a hard thing for a man to be righteous, if the unrighteous man is to have the greater right.

The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.

If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.

Before I had children I always wondered whether their births would be, for me, like the ultimate in gym class failures. And I discovered instead... that I'd finally found my sport.

Which to this day is a source of enormous guilt, because I left with three classes to go in the business school to sign a contract with 20th Century Fox.