Middle class Quotes · Page 7

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'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

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

— Shankar Mahadevan

Our town was not very wealthy, it is a humble place, and my mom and dad didn't have much money. They were…

— Alex Pereira

My father was also interested in stocks. When I was a young child, he and his friends would drink in the evening…

— Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

“When the poor are converted into consumers, they get more than access to products and services. They acquire the dignity of attention…

— C.K. Prahalad

People with a culture of poverty suffer much less from repression than we of the middle class suffer and indeed, if I…

— Brian Friel

The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension,…

— J. K. Rowling

Obama not only falsely represented the Republican position - as usual - he shamelessly pretended that he was The One 'fighting so…

— Bob Beauprez

It's nice to have money, but the first thing I did with money was buy my father a snow-blower, because my job…

— Richard Gere

The report of this made me exceedingly angry, for I could not see why information which a middle-class woman could get from…

— Dora Russell

The image the Republicans have of themselves needs the image they have of the Democrats to bring it into sharp focus. The…

— Clinton Rossiter

I'll go anywhere and I'll do whatever it takes to get this done. It's too important for Washington to screw this up.…

— Barack Obama

Working- and Middle-class families sat down at the dinner table every night - the shared meal was the touchstone of good manners.…

— Larry McMurtry

The Mormons' passage from bugbears of the Republican Party to its stalwarts may be analogized to a similar move among middle-class white…

— Noah Feldman

Perhaps if the year was 1447 instead of 1947 I might have hoodwinked my gentle nature by administering her some classical poison…

— Vladimir Nabokov

He laid it on George, me and our wives without telling us at a dinner party at his house. He was a…

— John Lennon

“The problem was not that Americans spent beyond their means but that their means had not kept up with what the larger…

— Robert B. Reich

Our job as Americans is to restore that basic bargain that says, if you work hard, if you're willing to meet your…

— Barack Obama

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

— Divya Khosla Kumar

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

— Anne Enright

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

— Joao Cancelo

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

— Allan Wolf

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

— Sidney Poitier

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

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

— Wassily Kandinsky

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

— Barack Obama

I grew up in a conservative household. That was the life of the time in Egypt: a conservative, middle-class household.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

It is so common in middle-class families to consider modelling and acting not serious.

— Anushka Sharma

From the very beginning, I've talked about how we're going to strengthen the middle class in this country.

— Justin Trudeau

I came from a very middle class Maharashtrian family. It was a big step to get into movies. My family was shocked.

— Sonali Bendre

I've always had an image of Mother's Pride flour, very respectable and middle-class.

— Prue Leith

I think we've created a middle class in rock & roll and we sort of just keep trudging along and having a ball.

— John Popper

The United States is a country where practically everybody considers himself middle class.

— Timothy Noah