For the better part of my life, I was always trying to manufacture somehow what I would consider 'living.' Because I grew… — Alex Ebert Copy Share Image
In economic panics throughout history, the wiping out of the savings accounts of lower earners and the middle class has often led… — Nick Clooney Copy Share Image
My mother and father were middle-class, and my grandmother lived in the ghetto, so I used to spend my summers at her… — Sisqo Copy Share Image
Every country has rich people. But only a few places have achieved a vibrant and stable middle class. And in the history… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Millionaires are just as patriotic as poor people. The very wealthy are just as noble and patriotic as the middle class. But… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
Income inequality has become so prevalent in the U.S. that examples of its negative impact on the middle class are as common… — Ana Kasparian Copy Share Image
“Look, John's last-minute economic plan does nothing to tackle the number-one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
We all have a role to play - the President, Congress, parents, students and schools - in making college affordable and keeping… — Arne Duncan Copy Share Image
“No, this, she felt, was real life and if she wasn’t as curious or passionate as she had once been, that was… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Moreover, it is important to recognize that notions of self-fashioning were circulating in Renaissance Europe not only among members of the rising… — Helena Goscilo Copy Share Image
In the absence of sound oversight,responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“I know that I am going away on my own account. I must make the usual effort. I must have something to… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“But by the late twentieth century, with more Americans going to college, making more money, and, thanks to more affordable airfares, traveling… — Kay S. Hymowitz Copy Share Image
The conversation should've been about middle class people. The conversation should've been about how to raise the minimum wage and strengthen Social… — Keith Ellison Copy Share Image
Poetry died as a commercial form and then it died as a serious art form. No one serious touches it. It used… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
There remains a degree of anti-black intellectualism in entertainment. Middle and upper-middle class blacks have often been portrayed as buffoons in popular… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
England is strictly class-based. What's surprising is how many films are still made with a load of people in silly frocks running… — Stephen Daldry Copy Share Image
No. You can't do that. We won't let you go to Bollywood... ' This is the standard reaction of small town, middle… — Vivek Agnihotri Copy Share Image
They made it to the middle class, my dad working as a bartender and my mother as a cashier and a maid.… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“Elm Street was the dividing line between the two worlds. On either side of this line there were families who had trouble… — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
My mom was a pretty hard worker. She worked her ass off, but I'd say we were middle class. I had a… — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
“The president stopped and turned. "You are a soldier of fortune." Gentry pushed him forward. "After expenses, I'm really more like a… — Mark Greaney Copy Share Image
Washington is broken. Bailing out Wall Street with no strings attached while leaving middle class Arkansas taxpayers with the bill. Protecting insurance… — Bill Halter Copy Share Image
We had a very normal, sort of ghetto, urban upbringing. My father was a bus driver and my mother was a seamstress… — Wood Harris Copy Share Image
Until the Second World War, it was unthinkable for a married woman of the working or middle class to disgrace her husband… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
I think I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
In our English popular religion the common conception of a future state of bliss is that of ... a kind of perfected… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education. — Lorraine Toussaint Copy Share Image
The world is polarized. The middle class becomes smaller. The polarization makes the difference between rich and the poor big. This is… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Comedians are always going to be in the showbiz middle class, you're not Brad Pitt; you're never going to be Sam Rockwell… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
When I first started working on 'The Wood,' these people couldn't grasp the concept that, one, there is a black middle class,… — Rick Famuyiwa Copy Share Image
Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
As kids we didn't complain about being poor; we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
We have a lot of problems in this country. It's going to put pressure on the budget and we're going to have… — David B. Axelrod Copy Share Image
I'm not saying everything was better in the old days; it wasn't. We had no Lottery funding to give us money to… — Colin Jackson Copy Share Image
My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did… — John Hume Copy Share Image
Well I'm a no goodnick lower middle class brat, back packed and I don't give a shit about nothing. You be standing… — Sum 41 Copy Share Image
Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
