I grew up in the middle of dairy country in Wisconsin…

Like many places across the country, Wisconsin lost more than 100,000 jobs from 2008 to 2010. Unemployment during that time topped out at over 9%.

— Scott Walker

From elementary school on up through junior high school, I loved to perform. But I put it all away during high school and college.…

— Lisa Kudrow

I did try to go to college and try to be an English major.

— Hamish Linklater

I grew up in a middle-class family. I went to law school.

— Kate Brown

I grew up in the middle of a block where there was an Irish grocery store on one corner, an Italian bar on another…

— Andrew Young

I grew up in a middle-class family in the middle of America in the middle of the last century.

— Hillary Clinton

I grew up middle class, my best friends to this day are construction workers or military or whatever it is.

— Miles Teller

I grew up in a middle-class family in Jamaica, I had no self-worth issues whatsoever.

— John Barnes

I grew up in a very middle-class background. It was a place where if you wanted something, you worked to get it.

— Jared Isaacman

I grew up in the middle class.

— Anthony Scaramucci

I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was a little…

— Ed Westwick

We grew up in the middle of nowhere. We didn't have a rich uncle in the music industry or some contact through someone that…

— Benji Madden

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

— Sean Strickland

I grew up middle class. My father was a public functionary who didn't leave an inheritance, just debts.

— Sebastian Pinera

I grew up in the middle of everything. I walked the streets alone, I rode the trains alone, I came home at three in…

— Alicia Keys