Class Quotes
In the hysterical technocracy of modern music, sorrow is sent to the back of the class where it sits, pissing its pants in mortal terror.
In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.
Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.
I hold it a blasphemy to say that the Creator resides in a temple from which a particular class of His devotees sharing faith in it are excluded.
The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one.
A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself.
Yes, there's genetics. Yes, there are chromosomes. Yes, there's biology. Yes, there are environment, sociology, parenting, economics, class, and all of that. But there is something else, as well.
In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.
The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.
We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace - business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering
Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.
I was almost impeached for getting cars off sidewalks which car owning upper classes had illegally appropriated for parking.
Exemplary people concern themselves with virtue, small people concern themselves with territory. The ruling class thinks of punishment, the lower classes hope for benevolence.
The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.
Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices.
A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John McCain has a plan to keep digging that hole with George Bush's shovel.
Sometimes I have better relationships with my barber then with people who are into cinema from an upper class.
Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy class, living at the expense of the industrial and working class.
A smaller government reflecting the needs of the middle class and poor is superior to a big government reflecting the needs of the privileged and powerful.
At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book.
All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.
I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
A more or less accurate measure of class in America is TV size: the bigger your TV, the lower your class.
When allowed to return to the class, your feelings of humility and lonesomeness will render you a much finer student and person.
A centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work.
On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a discipline, it gives you a place to go. It gives you some control in your life.
Inequality hardens society into a class system. Inequality divides us from one another... Inequality undermines democracy.
The people of Florida in 2002 voted and approved class size limits in Florida to make sure that the State pays for smaller class sizes and not local districts.
The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
'Rapa Nui' is about the conflict in the 1600s on Easter Island. It's about the clash of the royal clan and the working class.
The number one job facing the middle class. And it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: Jobs. J-O-B-S.
Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent.
When quarrels and complaints arise, it is when people who are equal have not got equal shares, or vice-versa.
Hot weather brings out snakes and slaveholders, and I like one class of the venomous creatures as little as I do the other.
The real fans of football come from the working class. Now they cannot afford to come and watch the game.
Yale has influenced the Central Intelligence Agency more than any other university, giving the CIA the atmosphere of a class reunion.
... social evils are dangerously contagious. The fixed policy of persecution and injustice against a class of women who are weak and defenseless will be necessarily hurtful to the cause of all women.
As a result of the digital age and the decline of first-class mail, there is no question that the Postal Service must change and develop a new business model.