I was very much a product of the public-school system…

I was well indulged as a child by my relentlessly self-improving, working class parents to express myself.

— Mike Myers

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

— Divya Khosla Kumar

Camille Hanks, whose upper-middle-class parents both had college degrees, was a student at the University of Maryland planning on a teaching career when she…

— Rebecca Traister

“Middle-class parents are more verbal generally, their vocabulary is richer and more expressive, and they are more supportive and less controlling in conversation with…

— Karl Alexander

My background's working class. My parents had to work to make ends meet. We don't come from any sense of privilege.

— Jon Bon Jovi

In my experience, there are plenty of bad middle-class parents: those who put their own lives and careers before those of their children and…

— Martin Jacques

I can distinctly remember being the only boy in my class whose parents had separated.

— Nigel Farage

Being an MP is a good job, the sort of job all working-class parents want for their children -- clean, indoors and no heavy…

— Diane Abbott

“1970’s was a time when English medium schools left such a distinctive impression in the field of education that middle-class parents with unexceptional income…

— Neetha Joseph

In the Nineties, there was all this new research into brain development, with evidence saying poor kids fall behind in school because no one…

— Pamela Druckerman

Successive generations of middle-class parents used to foist their own favourite books on their children. But some time in the late Eighties it began…

— Peter York

“Research highlights a striking link between between encouraging child-raising and class. Half of working-class parents' interactions with their 12-18 month-olds were affirming, versus 80%…

— Betty Hart

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

— Willie Stargell

I grew up one of six children with working-class parents in the Deep South. My mother was a college librarian, and my father worked…

— Stacey Abrams

Neither of my parents are involved in theater or acting, but they are very artistic. My mom is a painter; she's an artist. She…

— Elena Kampouris