Class Quotes

I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western.

Obama is a man of first-class intellect and first-class temperament. But his character remains highly suspect.

Some years ago an excellent professor of economics told his class in his gravelly voice, 'If you pay me $50,000 a year to solve a problem, I damned sure ain't going to solve it.'

I always was a funny guy, the class clown. I had a very funny dad and an extremely funny grandmother.

Hillary Clinton: putting big government spending financed by the Chinese ahead of good-paying jobs for middle-class Americans. Is she guilty or not guilty?

When one thing takes another away, what do we call that?” she asked my class. “Homicide!” I called out

I was the class clown, but I was a reluctant class clown because I was always and still am somewhat embarrassed by performing. I have terrible stage fright, and I don't like being in front of people.

Do you think Patrick Swayze now goes up behind people in pottery classes and hugs them just to crack up other ghosts?

My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.

That has to come to an end and end now. No citizen is a second-class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.

We don't have a manufacturing base. We don't have a middle-class jobs growing at all. All we have is a few rich people and a service industry to service them.

I didn't do very well academically; I was always in the bottom class.

All middle-class novels are about the trials of three, all upper-class novels about mass fornication, all revolutionary novels about a bad man turned good by a tractor.

My classroom is set up to accommodate the different types of assignments students do. Sitting at a single desk the entire class time just doesnt work for this type of class.

Lois and Alexander are by far the most beautiful creatures in the class; their beauty is like the beauty of plants, seemingly untroubled by vanity, anxiety or effort.

My parents couldn't afford a full time drama school, but I basically just did every class I could do, and followed every drama interest I could. When I was 15 or 16 I did drama courses.

Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the athletic ruling class.

Also consider that someday, when you’re dead and rotted, kids with their baby teeth will sit in their time-geography class and laugh about how stupid you were.

I had no idea what art was. There was one art class in high school, but it didn't make a big impression on me. Then I went to college and thought I'd become a writer.

I fantasized about being a psychology major when I first started school, and I took a handful of Psych 101 classes.

Man, I hated not being able to figure someone out. And from the slightly uncertain look he gave me as we all went to class, I suspected he felt the same way.

Despite the obstacles of race and class, I was always taught that I could accomplish anything I set my mind to. African-American writers, for me, were a beacon, a guiding force.

The transfer of [...] capabilities from various professional classes to the general public is epochal.

Every time I teach a class, I discover I don't know something.

We're working-class people, which means we don't get rich or have maids. Be content with what you are and what you have.

I started getting more in tune with who I am by doing roles or even just being in a class and being around people.

This week Apple stores are holding free computer programming classes for children. Or as that's called in China, a job fair.

I watched the Republican debate. At one point, the candidates said there are no classes in America, a point then hotly debated by all six rich white guys that were there.

In our nation there are two classes of nobility: the law-abiding workers and the law-abiding employers who sustain each other.

I think there is still pressure to marry. I think there is still pressure to have children. If you're middle or upper class, those pressures exist at a later age now.

They'll remember you if you're the best reader in class-or if you throw up at lunch.

How beastly the bourgeois is especially the male of the species

Isn't it god's own image? tramping his thirty miles a day after partridges, or a little rubber ball? wouldn't you like to be like that, well off, and quite the thing?

The difference between people isn't in their class, but in themselves. Only from the middle classes one gets ideas, and from the common people--life itself, warmth. You feel their hates and loves.

I was very much a product of the public-school system. There was only one other kid in my class who had parents not involved in the stock market or law.

I think technology is spreading, and I think ones experience of technology is going to relate increasingly to class - not so much to country.

My mom put me in dance classes when I was 5 years old.

Earning success is hard. The process is laborious, tedious, sometimes even boring. Becoming wealthy, influential, and world-class in your field is slow and arduous.

There are two distinctive classes of people today, those who have personal computers, and those who have several thousand extra dollars apiece.

Art editors and critics - people like me - have become a courtier class.

The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas.

Even in Heaven, the most perfect City in the World, there are going to be different levels, different classes, different stages, some very high, some very low.

Only you and I who love Jesus and have Him now before this life's death will be able to be among the special super-citizens of the Heavenly City, a special super-class of people!

Liberals lost touch with working-class Americans because they never had to have a conversation about values with those voters; they could just rely on the courts to impose their views.

Trivial details have been summoned, in part, to make a satirical point about upper-middle-class marriage-that the whole thing can slip away between the white wine and the arugula salad.

Normally for work I will fly business class.

Individual capitalists, in short, behave in such a way as to threaten the conditions that permit the reproduction of the capitalist class.

I knock people out. As soon as I land my shots on him, you will see the difference between class and hype. He's been built up and he believes the hype, but I will beat reality into him.

Think you are weak, think you lack what it takes, think you will lose, think you are second class - think this way and you are doomed to mediocrity.

The majority decision constitutionalizes a distinction between a red leather pouch and a paper bag that is necessarily based at least in some part on economic and class differences and perceptions.