Class Quotes
Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves.
Realistically, I think we are not prepared to go home until we do get more teachers and lower class sizes.
The pathos of it all is that the America which is to be protected by a huge military force is not the America of the people, but that of the privileged class.
It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
One has often wondered whether upon the whole earth there is anything so unintelligent, so unapt to perceive how the world is really going, as an ordinary young Englishman of our upper class.
The widespread belief that Yuppies as a class would perish from Brie-cheese poisoning turned out to be over-optimistic.
The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the 19th century.
I've been writing music since I was 9. I took harmony and counterpoint classes when I was studying the clarinet. So, I've been writing for an awfully long time. It just became part of everyday life.
I would like to do comedy. I can be a bit of a Jim Carrey. I was always the class clown.
Sad to hear Paul Scholes is retiring, what a player! Top class and a great role model for any young English midfield player!
I was this kid who never sat down. Nobody liked me? Well, I'd make sure they'd like me. I was the class clown, always doing crazy stuff and causing riots.
I think one of the greatest things about the Republican Party is the understanding, we don't point fingers and we have class.
Indeed, there are so many prejudices against everyday middle-class values on college campuses, and serving in the military and being pro-American just seems to be one of them.
The only thing that happens when I'm teaching is that I hope there are some students out there in the class who will ask questions.
When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author meant sitting at the kitchen table in pajamas, drinking tea with the dogs at your feet.
I don't really get nervous for auditions, because I just see them as mini acting classes. There's no need to have an attachment to the outcome because it's out of your hands after that.
Self-love is a principle of action; but among no class of human beings has nature so profusely distributed this principle of life and action as through the whole sensitive family of genius.
Outside intelligences, exploring the Solar System with true impartiality, would be quite likely to enter the Sun in their records thus: Star X, spectral class G0, 4 planets plus debris.
Freud tells us to blame our parents for all the shortcomings of our life, Marx tells us to blame the upper class of our society. But the only one to blame is oneself.
I had improvised a lot in classes and at the Actors Studio, but I never did it in front of the camera.
The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be call the Society page was replaced by the Style section.
The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
You come out of a working-class environment, you know, working-class kids always put them themselves together because it's one of the only things they had. You had control of your image.
For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchenthan witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.
We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the 'lower classes' when we mean humanity minus ourselves.
There will be internal discipline, but I can envisage both of them playing for Newcastle again. They're top-class players and they don't come along very often.
No change in the balance of political parties can alter the general determination that no class should be excluded from contributing to and sharing responsibility for the state.
School teachers, taking them by and large, are probably the most ignorant and stupid class of men in the whole group of mental workers.
I always had to prove myself through my actions. Be a cheerleader. Be class president. Be the editor of the newspaper.
the uncandid censurer always picks out the worst man of a class, and then confidently produces him as being a fair specimen of it.
I'm fascinated by the emergence of a global class. They're highly mobile; they reject the idea of place.
It was the class and dignity which he led his life that made him part of all of us. I will forever treasure the close friendship we shared over the years.
We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.
There is no stronger craving in the world than that of the rich for titles, except that of the titled for riches.
What does it mean with regard to tactics, this fact that the proletariat of Western Europe stands all alone: that it has no prospect of any help whatsoever from any other class?
Eight Hours For What We Will is a major contribution to modern American working-class history and to the history of a changing American popular and mass culture.
Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit.
Thierry Henry is a fantastic professional and will be massive here in New York, i'm sure, he is world class
There is a minority of gifted, willfuf people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong in this class.
I would like to be a heart surgeon or brain surgeon... something with that knowledge and the ability to save a life would be pretty cool. I wasn't that good in science class, though.