Class Quotes

Unrivalled not only in its class, but in a class by itself.

As Brooks Adams put it, the sole problem of our ruling class is whether to coerce or to bribe the powerless majority.

I come from the highest class of all. I am a third-generation celebrity.

I'm far too middle-class to morally object to a paying job.

Our daughter was the last in her class to get a cell phone and she had to earn it. She still doesn't have Instagram although she asks me for it every day.

I was named Class Clown in the high school yearbook, so I was always turning to comedy and laughter to heal and to get me through things.

The first religious experience that I can remember is getting under the nursery table to pray that the dancing mistress might be dead before we got to the Dancing Class.

The brain upon which my experiences have been written is not a particularly good one. If their were brain-shows, as there are cat and dog shows, I doubt if it would get even a third class prize.

There's always going to be evil, but the way we unite, regardless of class, race, religion, or gender, empowers the goodness in the world.

First of all, I'm not pretty. I'm not a world class beauty, ladies and gentlemen. I'm just a guy. I was slow going and stuff like that. I was just never that brand of news.

A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two and go, 'Let me try a bunch of things I was thinking of, as you were doing that.'

I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.

The idea of Herman Melville in a writing class is always distressing to me.

There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.

Now, a 45-degree angle is not something we deal with in finance. It's something you see in a high school geometry class. Performance like that has never been recorded in human history.

The facts and techniques or whatever they teach you in class isn't going to be veryuseful in the real world, that's for sure.

They don't teach you just how to be in school. There's no class on that. There’s no multiple choice test for Why Do I Feel This Way?

If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.

It is a great pleasure to escape sometimes from the restless class of Reformers. What if these grievances exist? So do you and I.

The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindu, Persian, and Greek, were a class than which none has been poorer in outward riches, none so rich inward.

In Canada an ordinary New England house would be mistaken for the château, and while every village here contains at least severalgentlemen or "squires," there is but one to a seigniory.

There are two classes of authors: the one write the history of their times, the other their biography.

For each successive class of phenomena, a new calculus or a new geometry, as the case might be, which might prove not wholly inadequate to the subtlety of nature.

Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or below the poverty line is almost the same.

In fact, the class divide in the black community is now seen by some as a permanent aspect of our existence.

There's nothing funny about, 'Yeah, I took a First Class plane ticket and I went to some designer beach and made out with a Laotian slave girl.' Who cares?

I draw a contrast between American shared governance with "the dictatorship of ministries" wherein policy and direction for the university is ordered by bureaucrats who have never taught a class.

When the interval between the intellectual classes and the practical classes is too great, the former will possess no influence, the latter will reap no benefit.

The fact is that between the classes there is a vast gulf that precludes all mutual understanding, and makes simultaneous efforts simply impossible.

Women ... are completely alone, though they were born and bred upon this soil, as if they belonged to another class in creation.

My class is not a three ring circus.

I started taking singing classes just two years ago. It was great. I never knew I could sing but I kind of found my voice.

[Margaret] Thatcher could fake her class background, but she couldn't fake the quality of her mind.

In acting class, teachers talk about how the 'givens' of a situation help define a character.

Donald Trump would end up raising taxes on middle-class families.

I grew up in a middle-class family in the middle of America in the middle of the last century.

When I was a senior, I ran for class president. And I lost. One of my opponents even told me I was "really stupid" if I thought a girl could be elected president.

I never took classic business classes in college, so I don't have the background that any of the people running large companies have.

Grace Kelly writes great songs, sings beautifully, is a world class saxophonist, and is going to be a big big star

I didnt have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.

I think my movie addresses the struggles of communities facing class distinctions, which are timeless. The questions of how we live together and what we do for money are really the stuff of drama.

To most middle-class feminists, as to most middle-class non-feminists, working-class women remain mysterious creatures to be “reached out to” in some abstract way. No connection. No solidarity.

Most middle-class people I know don't really live like me. Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security, and they do a lot of nine-to-five stuff.

When I started stand-up, the first thing I did was to take an improv class.

Damn! This flight attendant treating us like we won these first class tickets in a contest.

If literary fiction is reduced to only middle-class families dealing only with middle-class angst, then it’s really finished as a force for grappling with the world.

Anybody can be a halfway man, but the one who rises above this class is the one who keeps everlastingly pushing.

Class envy is dangerous.

No teacher should be required to accept in a class any individual whose conduct habitually interferes with the teaching of others.

I'm a nice middle-class girl in real life, and I'm a mom and a grandma, and I usually play sweet characters.