Class Quotes · Page 99

I think the state has some serious problems. Just look at the layoffs going on across the state, not just in Chicago.…

— Richard M. Daley

There is a saying in the Islands. Beware the women of the warrior class, for all they touch is both decorative and…

— Tamora Pierce

There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.

— William Nicholson

When I was very young I never thought I was attractive, because I was a tomboy and I was always the biggest…

— Michelle Pfeiffer

Ours is a people's democratic dictatorship, led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance.

— Mao Zedong

Social class means a hell of a lot and upper class people - no matter how well [Franklin ] Roosevelt did -…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Cities with a black middle class provide the narrow minded an opportunity to realize that cultural differences are largely economic.

— Dov Davidoff

People think there's a rigid class system here, but dukes have been known to marry chorus girls. Some have even married Americans.

— Prince Philip

We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we…

— Ida Tarbell

We want to repeal the ObamaCare tax. We want to save middle class families from European health care. And that's what we're…

— Reince Priebus

I was one of those whose school report would always say, 'Could pay more attention.' I spent my time trying to be…

— Suzanne Shaw

One would think that people who insist on being monotheistic would be the first in line to walk across the artificial boundaries…

— Richard Rohr

The talented employee may join a company because of its charismatic leaders, its generous benefits, and its world-class training programs, but how…

— Marcus Buckingham

It's more than a little ironic that the mantra that swept Bill Clinton into office is exactly what prevented Hillary from winning…

— Fabrizio Moreira

Every day you're alive, you can change the world. It could be for the better or for the worse. It can be…

— Tim Foreman

I went to an all-girls' Catholic school for, like, six years during the time when kids actually had handwriting class. I've always…

— Meghan Markle

I was a 'learn by doing' writer - I never took any formal writing classes. So it took a long time to…

— Sara Zarr

To open avenues to political place and power for all classes of women would cause these humble labors of the family and…

— Anonymous

My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.

— Sidney Poitier

By the time I graduated, I was the drum major, the highest-ranking officer, and third in my class.

— Joe Morton

Judges, as a class, display, in the matter of arranging alimony, that reckless generosity which is found only in men who are…

— P. G. Wodehouse

Class isn't something you buy. Look at you ... you've got on a $500 suit and you're still a low life.

— Nick Nolte

There's no conscious plan here; my whole life in politics as a state legislator and in Congress has been about strengthening the…

— Peter Welch

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

— Henri Frederic Amiel

In high school, I taught dance classes for 3-year-olds up to 16-year-olds, so between that and some bat mitzvah money, I saved…

— Dianna Agron

Robert von Neumann taught painting, and when I finally got into a painting class of his, he reacted in much the same…

— Warren MacKenzie

The future and the hope for the middle class church lies in the renewal of its lifeblood, which is only possible if…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Public opinion isn't formed independently, but driven by narratives from the political class and the media.

— Dawn Foster

I’m not a big fan of the class system, to be honest. It feels ugly to me. If you’ve got something to…

— Tom Hiddleston

When President-elect [Donald] Trump wants to take on these issue, when his goal is to increase the economic security of middle class…

— Rudy Giuliani

The wealthy don't cry over the fact that they are wealthy as long as the poor cry about the poverty that surrounds…

— Morph Vishn

Absolutely, everyone and anyone can get involved in yoga. I've seen really small kids doing it in my yoga class, right up…

— Jayne Middlemiss

There is a cultural movement in the white working class to blame problems on society or the government, and that movement gains…

— J. D. Vance

I think a lot of people view the death penalty as a debate class or something. The cost and what's at stake…

— Shane Claiborne

I'm of the opinion that the Democrats have the ideas I agree with more often than not. Reenergizing the middle class and…

— Henry Rollins

In the hierarchy of colors, green represents the social middle class, self-satisfied, immovable, narrow...

— Wassily Kandinsky

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

— Chuck Klosterman

Civilization means food and literature all round. Beefsteaks and fiction magazines for all. First-class proteins for the body, fourth-class love-stories for the…

— Aldous Huxley

The privileged classes can afford psychoanalysis and whiskey. Whereas all we get is sermons and sour wine. This is manifestly unfair. I…

— Donald Barthelme

We can't afford more top-down economics. What we need are policies that will grow and strengthen the middle class.

— Barack Obama