My childhood is completely... when I look back, it was…

I had a happy childhood in a nice suburban area, pretty idyllic, upper middle class and very, very white. My dad is an attorney.…

— Anthony Jeselnik

My childhood was completely dominated by Bill Clinton and the OJ trial. I don't think we had a family dinner where one didn't come…

— John Mulaney

“TO MY MIND, THOUGH, there is a third development that has altered our parenting experience above all others, and that is the wholesale transformation…

— Jennifer Senior

Margaret Thatcher has one great advantage - she is a daughter of the people and looks trim, as the daughter of the people desire…

— Rebecca West

Trivial details have been summoned, in part, to make a satirical point about upper-middle-class marriage-that the whole thing can slip away between the white…

— David Denby

We have a new joke on the reservation: 'What is cultural deprivation?' Answer: 'Being an upper-middle class white kid living in a split-level suburban…

— John Fire Lame Deer

I had a happy, dramafree youth, growing up in an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Dallas, Texas. The only thing that was slightly unusual compared to…

— Jeff Dunham

I came from an educated, upper middle-class family. My mother was a Persian and history teacher at a large high school for girls. Many…

— Khaled Hosseini

Excellent Sheep is likely to makea lasting mark for three reasons. One, Mr. Deresiewicz spent twenty-four years in the Ivy League, graduating from Columbia…

— Dwight Garner

I started to understand what the song could be about. The ache of nostalgia even for things we don't like, the commitment to keep…

— Erin McKeown

When well-qualified, upper middle-class blacks or Latinos or Asians move to predominantly white neighborhoods, there's what's called the tipping point. That tipping point is…

— Richard Benjamin

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

— Matthew Arnold

I think I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things…

— Anne Hathaway

There is quite a lot of mutual misunderstanding between the upper middle class and the working class. Reviewing what's been said about the white…

— Timothy Noah

I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, and thats very much the same ethos as what…

— Blake Bailey