Class Quotes

Politics should be limited in scope to ware, protection of property, and the occasional precautionary beheading of a member of the ruling class.

I've always traveled. I'm a professor in a limited way. I teach one class two quarters out of four, so I get traveling done.

I don't know what to think of the money. It's kind of mind-boggling. I come from a middle-class, blue-collar family. We've never really had money.

I never went to school for anything that I have done. I've never taken a class in singing, I never went to school for singing, acting, nothing. All I know is that it's a gift.

If I'd been whoring before class and waved a corset at him, no one would have thought twice about it!

I loved college. I wish I was still taking classes instead of teaching them.

He taught only one class: 'Unlikely Maths'. But since the time was listed as "now" and the place, "everywhere," this was hardly helpful in tracking him down.

I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four kids, including myself, living.

Average Americans, middle-class citizens, just feel disenfranchised by our government. And they feel particularly unhappy by what is perceived as business-as-usual politics in Washington.

I am fighting for those middle-class families who want us to deal with our debt and deficit, but they also want the investments that are critical to our country moving forward.

Every director should take an acting class.

The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class.

The balls used in top class games are generally smaller than those used in others.

I am being tried for fighting for the right of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America.

Class is not a fixed designation in this country. We are an upwardly mobile society with a lot of movement between income groups.

A fact which is not denied but whose truths are rationalized loses its objective base. It ceases to be concrete and becomes a myth created in defense of the class of the perceiver.

The MTV thing is the thing that I will always tip my hat to because that was like my acting class and how I got comfortable in front of a camera and how I kind of created my own thing.

As long as you try your best, that is all that matters. You don't have to be the fastest runner or top of the class.

In a rural society communities are "given" for the individual. Community is a fact, whether family or religion, social class or caste.

Football makes nonsense of class. It may make nonsense of colour in some circumstances.

Kevin Kline gives a master class in acting. He finds every nuance of mirth and melancholy in this wonder of a role and rides it to glory. You can't take your eyes off him.

I favor the extension of the middle-class tax cuts because in a recession they're stimulative and they help with demand.

I'd like to see you move up to the goat class, where I think you belong.

I've been so used to being supported by musicians, and I don't class myself as a particularly adept musician on instruments. I think I'm a songwriter.

Even when I took first prize, topped the class, won the race, I never really won anything. I was merely avoiding the embarrassment of losing.

I just like ladies who have class... just be yourself and let your personality shine and let your individuality show. To me, that's sexier. A confident woman is a sexy woman, in my opinion

I had a great time in high school. I really did. I went to a private Christian high school and I graduated in a class of 67 kids, so it was pretty small, and I knew and loved everybody.

The helicopter has never achieved much success and . . .may be classes with the ornithopter as obsolete.

I didn't like my classmates at Yale. George W.Bush was in my class. I didn't know it then.

I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.

I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.

The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.

Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments

And, as for what is called improving conversation, that is merely the foolish method by which the still more foolish philanthropist feebly tries to disarm the just rancour of the criminal classes.

The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policemen can see them.

Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.

There is a much higher probability that a first-class scholar should commit an error than that an author who usually writes nonsense should have one good idea.

Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.

She doesn’t usually back down that easily.” “Maybe she’s got class.” Eve snorted. “Trust me,” she said. “That girl’s got no class at all.

Average, middle-class people, the people of Macomb County, couldn't afford health care. Now they can [with Obamacare].

I can't believe they even bothered filling that faculty position again. They might as well rename the class Defense Against the Dark Arts. I mean, seriously, who would answer an ad for this job?

Very little of my time is spent thinking about poetry, except the time I spend in class.

Much of the wisdom of the world is not wisdom, and the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame, and are not writers.

When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not strange that society should be disheartened and sensualized by unbelief.

You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but much of histuition comes, on his way to school, from the shop- windows.

The affirmative class monopolize the homage of mankind. They originate and execute all the great feats. What a force was coiled upin the skull of Napoleon!

History is full, down to this day, of the imbecility of kings and governors. They are a class of persons much to be pitied, for they know not what they should do.

Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class.

We need a Republican Party that shows up on the South side of Chicago and shouts at the top of our lungs, 'We are the party of jobs and opportunity! The GOP is the ticket to the middle class.

I got a chance to be in a society where the barriers between classes - social and economic - are not insuperable, where money is not everything all the time.