Class Quotes · Page 69

I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really.

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

Apparently, there is no bad economic turn a conservative cannot do unto his buddy in the working class, as long as cultural…

— Thomas Frank

The Democratic Party has lost much of it credibility with working class and low-income people. It retards progress toward presenting a genuine…

— Paul Wellstone

I felt that no boy should have to depend either for his leg or his life upon the ability of his parents…

— Tommy Douglas

There are two classes of authors: the one write the history of their times, the other their biography.

— Henry David Thoreau

Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class.

— Michelle Williams

I'm about to do my second Bikram yoga class in Anchorage, Alaska. It's the only way to stay warm. I've got to…

— Emily Blunt

Country music, the music of the white rural working class, has often been mocked by elitists whose understanding of power and art…

— Will Shetterly

Virginia was in fact a landowning aristocracy, without nobility or merchant class, or any considerable small peasant farming class; and the other…

— Carl L. Becker

I applaud the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act. This was discrimination enshrined in law. It treated…

— Barack Obama

The hardest work that actors have done, including myself, is on poorly written scripts. And when you first start out you do…

— Bryan Cranston

There is an alternative to terror. It is called, in the political order, democracy. In the economic order, it is called the…

— Michael Novak

The fact that seasoned politicians can say such ridiculous things - and get away with it - illustrates the degree to which…

— Margaret Thatcher

We think. We are not peasants. We are mechanics. But even the peasants know better than to believe in a war. Everybody…

— Ernest Hemingway

Even tax breaks that are supposed to help the middle class too often skew toward the wealthy. Consider the mortgage interest deduction.…

— Dee Dee Myers

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“This class has always to sacrifice a part of itself in order not to be wholly destroyed.”

— Karl Marx

How on earth Traore gets into this team is beyond me. And he's a Champions League winner? Gimme a break.

— Johnny Giles

A cardio-funk class - I should have at least taken one of those. But it's always terrified me. I'm never one to…

— Neil Patrick Harris

Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within. Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given;…

— A. Philip Randolph

Punishment [by Nero] was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and mischievous superstition.

— Suetonius

We're setting up an urban farm for kids on more than 20 acres in New Orleans. We want to make this a…

— Emeril Lagasse

A government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of…

— Aristotle

We are cutting things kids like-music, art, and gym classes; stuff that kept me in school. This country can't survive without you…

— Tony Danza

Food culture in the United States has long been cast as the property of a privileged class. It is nothing of the…

— Barbara Kingsolver

There's a single with D.J. Class and Fatman Scoop - I'm not going to claim to be a singer, but my voice…

— Michael Sorrentino

When I took my first poetry class, I felt that I could understand the relationships between words and the formal qualities of…

— Garth Greenwell

I graduated with a class of 35 people. We had basically just enough people to actually have a play.

— Michelle Monaghan

Lemon Tree is well worth seeing as a first-class artistic achievement bridging two civilizations.

— Andrew Sarris

I coulda' had class. I coulda' been a contender! But instead I got a one way ticket to Palookaville.

— Budd Schulberg

Most people think that animals are third-class citizens. Very few people really see animals as "the others" with whom we inhabit this…

— Sigourney Weaver

Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class.

— Mark Poster

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.

— Toni Morrison

Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don't know how mean she looks.

— Chuck Berry

Private ownership of land is the nether mill-stone. Material progress is the upper mill-stone. Between them, with an increasing pressure, the working…

— Henry George

Every time a congressman or pundit says its 'class warfare' to increase taxes on the wealthy, it's a massive lie.

— Adam McKay

Virtue is uncommon in all the classes of humanity; and I suppose it will scarcely be imagined more frequent in a prison…

— Samuel Johnson

If you look at the CEOs of some the most successful companies in the world like IKEA, they never fly first class.…

— Gene Simmons

Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people…

— James Weldon Johnson

I wasn't the most popular girl in class, I had my friends, but I was comfortable with myself. There's always those most…

— Jennifer Lopez