Class Quotes

I can write a story in working-class Stockholm Swedish, but I'm not going to assume I can perform the same feat with Cockney. I'll focus on adventures in story, themes and structure instead.

I knew coming into this to fight that this was going to be a world class fight, but I knew he didn't have the skills to beat me.

What is necessary is to teach each class and profession the importance of the others. All together form one mighty body; labourer, peasant, and professional man.

Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil.

In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.

Both parents supported my becoming a world class athlete.

It's ginned up by the corporate plutocracy as a way of distracting the working-class people that it's screwing. We hamstring our own natural progressivism in this country, and that's really stupid.

We don't have a full black community in Boston. Our people are scattered. There's a middle class where I live in Highland Park but it's not like a piece of Washington or Chicago.

I mean, I went to a Catholic boys school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.

You don’t think of Shakespeare being a child, do you? Shakespeare being seven? He was seven at some point. He was in somebody’s English class, wasn’t he? How annoying would that be?

I took a Russian class at Notre Dame. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would fly someday in a Russian spacecraft with two cosmonauts, speaking only Russian.

The trouble with class reunions is that old flames have become even older.

You have to understand that a lot of the working class is not white.

For 25 years, it has been my privilege to represent the city of San Francisco and the great state of California; to work to strengthen our vibrant middle class; to secure opportunity and equality.

I was the one of those students who made the top half of the class possible.

Regardless of how me or this man right here or anybody else in this business get, when we walk on an airplane in first-class looking like this, we're gonna get searched.

Karl Malone's too high-class for a bum like me.

I strongly support tax relief for the middle class.

I wasn't bullied or anything at school, but I was quite shy and didn't speak up too much in class.

If you have an outstanding product, world class content, or something else that sets you apart, then you can step back and start thinking about how to promote it.

Kristin Brown looks as though she could have been mailed first-class to New York for about a dollar and a half.

When I was young I liked taking tests. I happened to be good at it. Certain subjects came easily, like math. All the science stuff. I would just read the textbooks in the first few days of class.

If you miss one class, you know it; if you miss two classes, your teacher knows it, and if you miss three classes, the audience knows it

We need a positive economic agenda that invests in the innovation and growth that will create jobs for middle class families and ensure that America remains the world leader.

Unusual commencement advice: Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '97: Wear sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it.

The working-class folks and the poor, and those normal people living their lives out in the world without the glitter and the fanfare. There is a lot to learn from them.

What foolsmiddle-classgirls are to expect other people to respect the same gods as themselves and E M Forster.

The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide.

The better class of Briton likes to send his children away to school until they're old and intelligent enough to come home again. Then they're too old and intelligent to want to.

I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege.

If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately.

For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ the word meaning it can be explained thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.

The more workers you have in your organization, the better you are implanted in the working class, the more likely you are to come up with the concrete problems of the class.

During its development the animal passes through all stages of the animal kingdom. The foetus is a representation of all animal classes in time.

I was always the kid in school who tried to get attention, not necessarily the class clown, but I'd do little unexpected performances.

We need a government that does not give in to a globalist agenda, an agenda I am now convinced seeks to bring American as a sovereign nation and the middle class to their knees.

I ran for ninth grade class president. Came in a close second.

I came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father.

When I was 15 and then 16 years old, I spent two summers in Nicaragua for a service project. I took Spanish classes the first week and got acclimated to Central America. I loved it.

As a matter of social class Ku Klux Klan would have been regarded as white trash.

God has really blessed me with the ability to put me ahead of the class.

You can't put those guys like Marciano or anyone else in with today's class of fighters.

I think it's very important for someone going to buy a book, taking a class or listening to a lecturer to ask, "Is this the right thing for me to do now? If it isn't, guide me to what I need."

The controversies between the proletariat and the middle class had to be smoothed out and bridged over by each getting to know and understand the other.

Social change rarely comes about through the efforts of the disenfranchised. The middle class creates social revolutions.

Setting aside labels, I am somebody who believes that government in a democratic society should be representing the needs of the vast majority of the people who are middle-class and working families.

God, it was good. Comforting and stimulating at the same time. Absolute world-class pheromones. I wished I could take his jacket home with me. Not him, just the jacket.

There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time.

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.

I certainly did feel inferior. Because of class. Because of strength. Because of height. I guess if I'd been able to hit somebody in the nose, I wouldn't have been a comic.