Class Quotes
My goal one day is to be in the same sentence as Rod Laver and Ken Rosewall. If I can match them for 10 years, I'd be in their company. They were class acts. That's what I'd like to be.
I loved doing My Favorite Year, which was great fun, and The Ruling Class, which I made with all my chums.
Teachers often make the mistake of thinking they're the boss of the class; they're not. The boss of the class is sitting down there somewhere.
Bullying is an evil because it not only destroys the life of the kid who's bullied, but also makes everyone in the class who knows this is going on feel guilty for not doing anything.
I feel that the single-minded pursuit of wealth has led the middle classes into a crisis.
I learned about HeLa cells in my first basic biology class, and I just became completely obsessed with them from that point on.
At the beginning of each lecture I say, 'Here's a set of events unexplainable by common sense, and I promise you'll be able to solve this mystery at the end of class.'
The San Francisco Stock Exchange was the place that continuously pumped up the savings of the lower classes into the pockets of the millionaires.
Language follows its own path. It can bridge gulfs of class and geography in the most remarkable ways.
I used to have a phrase: Liberalism is spreading misery equally. And now the ruling class throughout Washington seems to have adopted this.
In college I didn't dress up every day, for class or stuff like that, but when it came time to do certain things I'd dress up for sure.
There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.
Barack Obama and Joe Biden have been working hard to help middle-class families make it in America.
However much we might deplore the profit motive, or consumerist values, if everyone just wants i-Pods we would probably be better off than if they wanted class revolution.
I'm very proud that a woman, has finally been chosen as a candidate for the president of the United States, because I always felt women should be treated like first-class citizens.
Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status.
We girls should have to change a tire or take a 'change your oil' class in high school instead of taking home economics, because we'd benefit from that.
An innocent little human being was solely dependent on me! I took all the CPR and breastfeeding classes and learned quite a bit.
I graduated from school for graphic design, and I started to get into acting class just to get over severe fright. I was an extremely shy person. I could barely say hello to anybody.
Well, actually, the Second City thing came about because I was taking a few improv classes there. I thought that the improv classes would help with my wrestling career, which it has.
I hated art as a kid. I didn't even like art class. I didn't like to draw. I would make my dad do all the drawings because I hated it so much.
The common interests very largely elude public opinion entirely, and can be managed only by a specialised class.
There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among the Spanish and Portuguese settlements.
Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.
The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not.
A Status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.
To avoid the consequences of posterity the mulattos give the blacks a first class letting alone. There is a frantic stampede white-ward to escape from Jamaica's black mass.
He (William Howard Taft) had little patience with the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth and financial success.
Had you but seen it, I promise you, your high-minded principles would have melted like candle wax. Never would you have wished such beauty away.
Hunger justifies the middle classes.
I think I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things that my family put up with.
Men have prayed in prison, men have prayed in slums and concentration camps. It's only the middle class who demand to pray in suitable surroundings.
I want to make college tuition-free for the middle class and debt-free for everyone else.
Older Jews think of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and see themselves as siding with the working class and the poor, so they continue to vote the way they do.
The depth of the middle class is waning as the polarization of society is in progress.
I feel that I helped the working class by just saying there are no barriers, which I consider to be true.
I grew up middle class, my best friends to this day are construction workers or military or whatever it is.
Middle class prosperity is lapidary; the flow of cash rounds and smooths a person like water does riverbed stones.
Being Black and poor is, I think, radically different from being anything else and poor. Poor, to most Blacks, is a state of mind. Those who accept it are poor; those who struggle are middle class.
The Democrat Party makes as many people victims as possible because it freezes them right where they are. And that's usually in lower middle class or abject poverty. It makes them resentful.
Anyone from abroad will tell you that it is the class system that really lies at the root of our problems, economic and industrial. The House of Lords symbolises that.