Class Quotes

Better to be a first-class matchbox than a second-class match.

Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs, laws, institutions, and governments themselves.

Lots of the cooking classes open to non-professionals are too low level for experienced foodies, or don’t offer enough hands-on training.

In life there exist two classes: first class and no class.

I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.

Inertia! Our ruling class knows one law; no change. Despotism! They know one rule; force. Maldistribution! They know one desire; to hold what is theirs.

Deliberately causing mayhem in Snape's Potions class was about as safe as poking a sleeping dragon in the eye.

As a class, Jews give three times as much money to charity as anybody else, but they feel guilty about their wealth anyway. They simply can't accept the idea of ever being Republicans.

Authentic femininity is a combination of class, tenderness and virtue. When a woman possesses these traits, a man will naturally want to be more of a gentleman around her.

Even world class performers can benefit from walk breaks.

Morgan Freeman is so class. He's so cool. He's so scary.

You grow up Latin in this country and you're a third class citizen from the word go, and so you have to deal with everything around you from that point of view and trying to feel entitled.

The old middle-class prerogative of being permanently in a most filthy temper.

The reality is the stakes are very high. If your industry is targeted or your company is sued in a class action, your legal costs will soar.

Depression as one example is an illness that has a chemical basis, but also is deeply embedded in cultural norms about gender, social class, race.

I've taught the better class of tourist both to see and not to see; to lift their eyes above and beyond the inessentials, and thrill to our western Nature in her majesty.

Teachers wondered why I didn't speak up more in class. Why would I when I knew how precarious words could be, how betraying they were, how vulnerable they made you?

I don't do any Class A - especially not cocaine - after seeing what it does to people.

Some people do want to stand on the rooftop and scream out their story. Others are cowering in the corner, or sitting with a blank face in class, and not knowing how to tell their story.

My parents are the last of the middle class. My father worked for the government designing sea mines. My mother was a substitute teacher. Together, they worked really only until they were sixty.

If we're not going to tax the rich anymore, we're going to create class warfare.

Until now, until I actually got into law class, I just never thought of it as being an interest for me, but it's really funny because now that I'm in law, I'm like 'Wow, I could be a lawyer

Growing up with Tumblr, I can imagine if I was fourteen now being in high school and being on Tumblr all the time in class - that must be such an annoying thing for teachers to have to deal with!

Some teachers should be put in prison for the way they either take advantage of women in their classes or destroy fragile egos. Be careful who you ask to help you when you're in the arts.

White working-class voters or working-class voters have felt abandoned, have felt, in many senses, disparaged by the political leadership of America.

I think Ashley Young is world class, Id put him in a bracket with Lionel Messi and Ronaldo

To men and women who want to do things, there is nothing quite so driving as the force of an imprisoned ego. . . . All genius comes from this class.

From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.

The Lady: a fluty voice, sensible shoes, a melancholy sense of living by rules few still remember.

I used to make fun of the kids in school who acted or went to dance class.

All the kids in the cast tell me they hated high school, but I had the best time. I guess I was one of the popular kids. I played soccer, I was class president—I even dated the homecoming queen.

Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.

If someone is very upper-class, you have a stereotype of him which is probably true. If someone has a working-class accent, you have no idea who you're talking to.

The school had a big problem with drugs... especially Class A.

I was a communist, but being left-wing was fashionable. I was no different from thousands of middle-class kids.

I've been a member of some good gyms in the past. I love a good spinning class; I love a good aerobics class.

At DePauw, I was teaching writing and fiction. The things I wanted to teach, more than anything else, were form and theory of the novel, of narrative. I liked those classes.

Having photographs around the house is fine - if they're royal and on the grand piano.

Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control.

Another two-bowl morning?" - Damien Maslin asking Zoey Redbird if her love of cereal was the reason she was almost late for Vamp Soc class

Statisticians estimate that crime among good golfers is lower than in any class of the community except possibly bishops.

My dad was a class person on and off the field. That's the person I want to be.

I can't remember much about the early flights, except that it was ages before we got into First Class.

I've never written nearly as much about place as people seem to think I do. I just write about class.

I like people-watching and getting inspiration from the unique people who dont follow any fashion tides. From 12-year-olds who have full freedom, to 86-year-old ladies with a ton of class.

I want people to know that movie stars live a normal, middle-class life.

Hot yoga is the best. When you're in [class], there are no cell phones, no talking, no distractions. You're taking a leave from reality for an hour or so.

When I was 3 my parents put me in gymnastics because I was a bundle of energy and they just didn't know what to do with me! They put me in a Tots class and I just fell in love with it.

I think the new school is dope. Artists like Kid Cudi, The Cool Kids, Drake and Wale can come out of middle class homes and be on tracks with people like Jay-Z, who's from the hood and the street.

This is the beauty that emerges from self-confidence, class confidence. That says, I am not born to please. I am born to be pleased.