Middle class Quotes · Page 6

My mother was from a middle-class background.

— Vivek Murthy

Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.

— Arianna Huffington

Colombia has a big market that is growing because we are elevating people out of poverty and into the middle class.

— Juan Manuel Santos

We didn't know we were poor because that's how everyone around us lived.

— Eric Adams

My dad had a job in computers, we didn't really have any money, we weren't affluent, but we were fine.

— CMAT

I grew up in a middle-class household. We had doors and we weren't white trash.

— Sean Strickland

When I was young, I grew up in a family of working-class people. Not just my parents, but my extended family, as…

— Matt de la Pena

We never had any money. All the money we used to get, my father would give to the Communist Party.

— Shabana Azmi

My parents were very strapped for cash when we were growing up.

— Gemma Collins

I know why we're strong. I know why we have held together; I know why we are united: it's because there's always…

— Joe Biden

But this convention is about more than re-nominating President Obama. It's about Americans coming together to build one economy - not from…

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor…

— Susan George

Growing up, I wouldn't say I was poor. But my parents, although we lived in a nice, middle-class home, they had their…

— Jay IDK

I'm working class, my family was working class, and we have struggled the same way our neighbors here in San Francisco have…

— Cindy Sheehan

“We had, you could say, everything but money -- Grandmam and I did, anyhow. We had each other and our work, and…

— Wendell Berry

“One of the reasons the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and the middle class struggles in debt is that the…

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

Such an assemblage of the spraddle-legged men of the middle class, whose hands were bent and shoulders stooped from delving and constructing,…

— Stephen Crane

“THERE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN ITINERANTS, drifters, hobos, restless souls. But now, in the second millennium, a new kind of wandering tribe is…

— Jessica Bruder

“This advice comes as a surprise: job searching is not joblessness; it is a job in itself and should be structured to…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the…

— Daniel Day-Lewis

The Porsche was just a vehicle to get to another place. I used it to change people's perceptions of me. I had…

— Brian Grazer

In five days, you can turn the page on policies that put greed and irresponsibility on Wall Street before the hard work…

— Barack Obama

“There must always be a fringe of the experimental in literature--poems bizarre in form and curious in content, stories that overreach for…

— Henry Seidel Canby

“Understanding Metro's history may illuminate today's debates. To conservatives who decry Metro's expense--around $10 billion in nominal dollars--this book serves as a…

— Zachary M. Schrag

“The German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, who had syphilis, said that only a person of deep faith could afford the luxury of…

— Kurt Vonnegut

If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery.

— Simon Hoggart

I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty.

— Viktor Yanukovych

People who want to act rich when they're upper-middle class. They try too hard.

— John Waters

Donald Trump would end up raising taxes on middle-class families.

— Hillary Clinton

I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.

— Orson Welles

To middle-class parents, the project team may have seemed unfit for children, but it was exactly what I needed.

— Willie Stargell

I come from a middle-class background and there was none to lead me through to movies.

— Anupama Parameswaran

What's universal in America about teenagehood is a middle-class white boy with average dreams.

— Celine Sciamma

I grew up in a poor family. I had to cut everyone's hair, because we didn't have money for entertainment.

— Anthony Jeselnik

Lowering the middle-class tax rate... will likely lower work efforts and increase government dependence.

— Edward Conard

I feel that the single-minded pursuit of wealth has led the middle classes into a crisis,

— Rana Dasgupta

Our goal is to upgrade the life of China's middle class. We all want to live better.

— Guo Guangchang

Capitalism has always been a failure for the lower classes. It is now beginning to fail for the middle classes.

— Howard Zinn

Middle-class economics means helping working families feel more secure in a world of constant change.

— Barack Obama

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

— Rory Bremner