Class Quotes

I think Donald Trump understood that there are many millions of people in America, the working middle class, who are really hurting. They are in pain.

We know the legislation that passed the House. It was the worst piece of legislation frankly against working class people that I can remember in my political life in the Congress.

We will do well when young people, when working-class people come out. We do not do well when the voter turnout is not large. We did not do as good a job as I had wanted to bring out a large turnout.

We have to say to the billionaire class, enough is enough. You cannot have it all. You are going to pay more in taxes.

The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts 'sins' and others 'virtue' on grounds that have nothing to do with their social consequences.

The Eugenic Society . . . is perpetually bewailing the fact that wage-earners breed faster than middle-class people.

But when I got to SMU and decided to take a playwriting class, I said this isn't a bad idea. IfI write characters, they could be as dumb as me, and I don't have to be very smart.

I was terrible student at Michigan, terrible. Because there was too much else to do. I was learning form too many other sources to go to class.

The New York Times - but the whole country gives it that weight. It's like the Asian kid in math class. Everybody in the media cheats off The New York Times.

When the public loses faith in democracy's ability to solve the problems it has created for itself, the game's almost over. And I think we are this close to losing democracy to the mercenary class.

I often think about the class differences involved in "jobs" vs. "careers."

I got in drama class in high school and I only got in there because there were girls and I thought maybe I could make a grade above a C in something.

You've got to look and pick your shots - and that's where your class and skill comes out.

The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.

Election made me more aware, more conscious, more sensitive. Not just of sexism but of discrimination in all areas - class, gender, race. I had realized that there were problems .

I've never worked with an acting coach, but my parents had acting classes and I grew up around them my whole life just because I didn't have a babysitter.

I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize.

I spent 34 months on the battleship Alabama, South Dakota-class. I was a gun captain. First we went to Russia for about 11 months with the British convoys. Then we were up in Norway and Scandinavia.

Yeah, there are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't seem to dress so nicely, you know. That's what I don't like.

If universities want to save a little money, they ought to make some cutbacks in administration and in faculty people who teach one class a week.

I-just-got-off-the-bus-and-I'm-really-excited-and-ambitious-and-I-took-an-acting-class-in-Des-Moines-and-I-know-I-really-need-an-agent-and-I-want-one-NOW

In a regular class I don't focus on the form, but I think that focus is helpful for brainstorming and coming up with ideas quickly, especially with autobiographical material.

Drugs and drinking affect every family I know, country and city, middle-class and poor.

A great start to the perfect day - a world-class workout at the gym... It's hard to feel miserable after a great workout.

I admire people who have and show "class." Coach Pat Riley has class! I can only hope other people say the same about me.

If you look at the world-class performers at the top of the game, their numbers are just exceptional and that is the level he is at.

I do know that when I look around in show business, I see a lot of people who were in my drama class in high school.

I know how to have a conversation, but I've never done improv. I've never taken improv classes.

Of course I haven't seen it! I wouldn't look at anything of Kim Kardashian's. I have never seen that show. I just think the Kardashians are just so cheap! No class.

When I was a kid and going to the movies I was overwhelmed by the way women were always second-class citizens in the film.

I need to do psychology classes. That would be so interesting to me, studying people.

Back then I was called Dumbo because of my ears. I was called Fatty, too. It was hurtful so I became like the class clown. I became the one who was kicked around.

No, I don't run all the way. I'm not like an Olympic class runner.

I coulda' had class. I coulda' been a contender! But instead I got a one way ticket to Palookaville.

I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.

Don't liberal Democrats ever learn economic principles, or does their class warfare trump all else?

I hate acting classes. I did a few, but I've always hated acting classes. I prefer to just watch a movie or watch TV and take it from there.

I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes.

The future economic success of Silicon Valley will be contingent on whether we have a good quality of life. World-class workers will only want to come to a world-class living environment.

Citizens, it is time to take our country back from the political class, from the media, from the liberal elite.

The people are fed up with the political class.

I was wrong about [Jack] Keane. He is the exception that proves the rule. I was certainly right about the fact that he is a member of the warrior class.

I think the fact that you don't have to go to a class and embarrass yourself if you're not comfortable with your body.

I was the quiet kid in the corner, reading a book. In elementary school, I read so much and so often during class that I was actually forbidden from reading books during school hours by my teachers.

It is, after all, absurd that in 2017 women are still at best second-class citizens.

Moral claims aren't, as a class, truth-value apt or not.

She felt as she often did in class when she was nearly sure she had the right answer, but could not always make herself raise her hand.

But I've always been fascinated with that prettiest-girl-in-the-class person that I never was, getting inside her head and showing that she's just as tormented and messed up as everybody else.

For though we are perpetually bragging of it as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of the upper.

Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things.