Middle class Quotes · Page 2

We were poor, but we smiled.

— Mr. T

Real Democrats don't abandon the middle class.

— John F. Kerry

Don't be defeatist, dear, it's very middle class.

— Maggie Smith

I am a normal girl from a humble, middle class family.

— Mithila Palkar

I come from a working class family. We barely had anything.

— Laila Rouass

We're serious about growing our middle class.

— Marty Walsh

We were much poorer than many families.

— David Baddiel

“Angst is for the Middle Class" - Marcus in Rough Canvas”

— Joey W. Hill

I was as middle class as it comes.

— Patrick Murphy

The most pro-business thing you can do is to help middle-class people thrive.

— Nick Hanauer

Most writers are middle-class and are the children of doctors or lawyers.

— Gore Vidal

Being from a middle-class Indian family, I learned Carnatic music.

— Shankar Mahadevan

I'm a nice middle-class girl in real life, and I'm a mom and a grandma, and I usually play sweet characters.

— Jacki Weaver

Even though we were middle-class, my parents always got me what I wanted.

— Divya Khosla Kumar

In Portugal there is often no work; my father had to go to Switzerland to earn money to support our family.

— Joao Cancelo

I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.

— Anne Enright

“Thank God (my wife) and I were both born poor so the concept of fidelity was allowed to take root in us.”

— Allan Wolf

As long as there's anybody that's poor or middle class, there will not be satisfaction that there are rich people. Not 'til…

— Rush Limbaugh

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

I know that at literary festivals I'm speaking mostly to middle-class women, who frequently vote in a way that is contrary to…

— Elliot Perlman

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

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Let's restore sanity and fairness to the tax cut conversation. We simply cannot afford to hand over the bank vault to our…

— Paul Tonko

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

— Dov Davidoff

“The poor and middle class work for money,” he would say. “The rich make money. The more real you think money is,…

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

I grew up on the Southside of Chicago. What people don't realize is that my father was a multimillionaire who owned 12…

— LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

Despite different cultures, middle-class youth all over the world seem to live their lives as if in a parallel universe. They get…

— Naomi Klein

[Steven] Lerner said that unions and community organizations are, for all intents and purposes, dead. The only way to achieve their goals,…

— Rush Limbaugh

“ It's a ridiculous profession and it's getting worse. It's becoming almost like palm reading or phrenology. It's been relegated to pop…

— Ian Shoales

That value system has been handed right down in European society. And today when you find Negroes, if they even look like…

— Malcolm X

When the 2008 victory of Barack Obama and the defeat of grumpy old John McCain began looking, um, inevitable, I started fielding…

— Rick Perlstein

In retrospect, it's ridiculous that anyone saw me as a fashion icon, since all I was trying to do was to dumb…

— Kim Gordon

In the days when Glastonbury was an alternative festival, it was quite interesting. Now it is the most bourgeois thing on the…

— Bruce Dickinson

I can tell you I'm pretty middle-class.

— John Prescott

All great men come out of the middle classes.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We were so poor we envied everyone we ever heard of.

— Sally Stanford

Actually, I am a typical middle-class girl.

— Padmapriya Janakiraman

I was raised really poor and so was my husband.

— Jewel

Democrats don't relate to middle-class people.

— Anonymous

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

— Pam Grier