Middle class Quotes

I'm a nice middle-class girl.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

My parents are super cheap.

— Chance The Rapper

I grew up upper middle class.

— Lil Dicky

I grew up poor.

— Jessica Chastain

My family were really poor.

— Joe Gilgun

I am hard-core middle class.

— Jason Alexander

I come from a poor family.

— Manny Pacquiao

I'm painfully middle class.

— Valerie Harper

I'm a warrior for the middle class.

— Barack Obama

You're looking at a middle-class guy. I am who I am.

— Joe Biden

Before there were unions, there was no middle class.

— Michael Moore

“In general, poor is polite and rich is rude.”

— Amit Kalantri

I come from a middle-class family in Kozhikode, Kerala.

— P. T. Usha

Growing up, we really didn't have a lot of money.

— Kane Brown

I grew up sort of middle class, safe and suburban.

— Colum McCann

Hunger justifies the middle classes.

— Julien Torma

Empowering women in the workforce is a key to growing the economy and having a thriving middle class.

— Kirsten Gillibrand

Tax cuts that actually go to working-class, middle-class people, I'm not opposed to.

— Eric Garcetti

“I'm not middle-class; I do not have a degree. I am upper-class without money.”

— Leila Aboulela

I come from a middle class family and I am not overambitious.

— Biju Menon

I did not want my children to grow up only knowing other upper-middle-class kids like themselves.

— Charles Murray

We had no money, my dad was out of work a lot, and we never owned a house. It was very hand-to-mouth.

— Johnny Flynn

I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education,

— Rory Bremner

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

— Sidney Poitier

We were very working class and there is that chip on your shoulder from day one, but then I went to art…

— Lee Evans

I grew up in a middle-class family, my dad was a truck driver with UPS. He made good money, so it wasn't…

— Steve Harwell

If you want to do something to destroy consumer spending, just eat away at the middle class because the other problem we…

— Wilbur Ross

Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life.

— Matthew Arnold

The Fed has got to become a more democratic institution that is responsive to the needs of the middle class, not just…

— Bernie Sanders

Community colleges are great bargains. They avoid the fancy amenities four-year liberal arts colleges need in order to lure the children of…

— Robert Reich

We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don't…

— Anonymous

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…

— J. M. Ledgard

“We believe some people are more special, more beautiful, more capable, more influential, more intelligent, more gifted, and have a greater capacity…

— John Lewis

What can I do to make sure that middle-class families are feeling more secure, that more young people are able to access…

— Barack Obama

“The story of Ayman Al-Zawahiri (head of Al-Qaeda following Osama bin Laden's killing in May 2011), his transform ation from a successful…

— Tarek Osman

“Wait long enough, and what was once mainstream will fall into obscurity. When that happens, it will become valuable again to those…

— David McRaney

We all like to think of ourselves as a standard, and I can see that it is genuinely difficult for the English…

— Raymond Williams

I find the middle classes kind of boring. The middle class has kind of been beaten like a dead horse by fictional…

— David Means

“country's middle class was growing at a very slow pace. By the late 1940s, around 5 per cent of the population controlled…

— Tarek Osman

When I talk about my artist parents, people imagine a bohemian environment and think, 'Aha, so that's where he gets it from!'…

— David Mitchell