Class Quotes · Page 63

Middle-class-led reform movements, from the Progressive Era to the War on Poverty, have been marred by an elitist distance from the would-be…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

Washington is a complete mess. It's become a venue for partisan bickering, where the needs of the working class just don't matter.

— Meghan McCain

I was an ordinary college kid. I drank beer, ate pizza, lifted weights and occasionally went to class.

— Paul Casey

I grew up in a show-business family, but we were working-class show business. There was nothing glamorous about it. You had great…

— Sally Field

There's no race, no religion, no class system, no color - nothing - no sexual orientation, that makes us better than anyone…

— Sandra Bullock

The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals; She never produces classes.

— Lydia M. Child

Our middle class majority, deeply in personal debt, elects political leaders who increase our benefits. Then we vote them out because we…

— Oliver DeMille

The best example of all, to me, that our problems are both personal and cultural and political and social is the whole…

— William J. Clinton

I always honestly dreamed of coming to Second City in Chicago, although I've never even been there to see a show. But…

— Simon Helberg

For educated Americans like Joseph Ellis, Vietnam is a special hang-up. I am an Englishman of exactly the Vietnam generation, a couple…

— Geoffrey Wheatcroft

From education to broadband, from building roads and bridges to supporting the military, Barack Obama is delivering for North Carolina. And he…

— Bev Perdue

I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and…

— Gertrude Stein

And when I first started writing, it was literally in acting classes. And what would happen is now it's really easy to…

— Quentin Tarantino

In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. ...under the republican forms…

— James Madison

I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was really interested in…

— Caity Lotz

More fundamentally, this kind of gaping inequality gives lie to the promise at the very heart of America: that this is the…

— Barack Obama

Alcohol and marijuana, if used in moderation, plus loud, usually low-class music, make stress and boredom infinitely more bearable.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Probably because I'm from a middle class family, I have that nature in me that I don't get too excited with big…

— Virat Kohli

It is our generation's task...to reignite the true engine of America's economic growth...a rising, thriving middle class.

— Barack Obama

Even if 'Bruises' had done a fraction of what it did, I would have thought that was class.

— Lewis Capaldi

The philosophic aim of education must be to get each one out of his isolated class and into the one humanity.

— Paul Goodman

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

— George Bernard Shaw

Homemakers work longer and harder than any other class of worker in the United States for less pay, and are the most…

— Gloria Steinem

Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and…

— John Polkinghorne

I took a clown class at NYU - that's where I met June Diane Raphael, my writing partner and best friend.

— Casey Wilson

I still go to acting class. I love the craft. It's just so much fun for me, and I'm always a student.

— Eva Mendes

Introversion - along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness - is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and…

— Susan Cain

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

— Conan O'Brien

Our message of strengthening the middle class, working people, we just didn't penetrate well enough and we didn't have the kind of…

— Keith Ellison

Math was always hard for me, but my dad would come up with ways of making it fun. I remember playing 'Number…

— Seth Numrich

Even if God exists, he's done such a terrible job, it's a wonder people don't get together and file a class action…

— Woody Allen

Without an understanding of the issue of race and a willingness to confront it head on, the working class will not build…

— Michael Yates

The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes.

— William Greider

I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes.

— Oksana Baiul

I was the new boy. It was like joining a new class at school where everybody knows everybody else but me.

— Ringo Starr

There was a time when my mum would sew costumes for the dance studio so we could keep doing our classes because…

— Julianne Hough

I cried every day of first grade. In class. Which meant I ended up getting comfortable emoting in a place where it…

— Jesse Eisenberg

I was fortunate to have teachers that were flexible with allowing me to miss more class than I was supposed to be…

— G-Eazy

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the…

— Thomas Sowell

I was this kid who never sat down. Nobody liked me? Well, I'd make sure they'd like me. I was the class…

— Bas Rutten