Class Quotes · Page 70

Every progressive movement has been built on the anger, needs, and aspirations of the emerging major class.

— Guy Standing

One of the bigger misconceptions of learning is that many skills take a lifetime to get world-class at, or 10,000 hours to…

— Anonymous

I love trains. I dont even mind First Great Western, which is a stupid name because it implies every carriage is first…

— Tim Rice

You know, I was the class clown in Catholic school, but I never thought I would make a living out of it!

— Sofia Vergara

I regard affirmative action as pernicious-a system that had wonderful ideals when it started but was almost immediately abused for the benefit…

— Camille Paglia

I had to discover very quickly that class origins cannot be erased, regardless of whether we climb up or down the sociocultural…

— Elena Ferrante

I was surprised recently to find a book called "Poetry in Persons" that's coming out about visit to poets to a class…

— Edward Hirsch

I enjoy going to campuses and reading and doing a class or teaching and then running away and not having to grade…

— Frederick Busch

I started acting when I was, like, three. My brother was really smart, and he wasnt being challenged enough, so my mom…

— Nolan Gould

I grew up in the Fifties, and the majority of people in my class had fathers living at home. I was very…

— Cherie Lunghi

I’ve been thinking about that proof I spoke of last time – that you’re where you’re supposed to be. And it occurred…

— Tammara Webber

Work is the curse of the drinking class. I can resist everything except temptation. Moderation is a fatal thing - nothing succeeds…

— Oscar Wilde

This ought to be a season for cooperation in terms of pushing our economy forward, job creation, steadying the middle class, and…

— David Axelrod

Socialism has never and nowhere been at first a working-class movement. It is by no means an obvious remedy for the obvious…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

It is quite too common a practice, both in readers and the more superficial class of critics, to judge a book by…

— James Russell Lowell

“I remember two boys being suspected of being gay in my class as a child in the 1970’s. Assuming there were also…

— Steven Magee

I won't say I was slow developer, but our teacher was quite pleased to have someone her own age in the class…

— Chic Murray

I watch Renee Fleming a lot. I listen to Renee Fleming a lot. She was like my built-in master class.

— Jessie Mueller

There will be a big tax cut for the middle class. But any tax cuts we have for the upper class will…

— Steve Mnuchin

'Girls' was my first audition. I'd just taken an audition class, and I was excited to implement those tools.

— Allison Williams

In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very…

— Bill Gates

the wrongs of society can be more deeply impressed on a large class of readers in the form of fiction than by…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Yes, friends, governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class.

— James Connolly

I will tell you this: I will not raise taxes on the middle-class to pay for these programs.

— William J. Clinton

Writing as an art form belongs to all people, regardless of economic class or educational level. . . . A writer is someone who writes.

— Pat Schneider

That a whole part of the middle class detests me... is utterly normal. I would be troubled if the contrary were true.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Oh, I like to take classes every chance that I get. If I'm not working after about four or five months, I'll…

— Alanna Ubach

Biden's ability to resonate with white working class voters has long been touted as one of his major strengths.

— Jessica Tarlov

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

— Matthew Arnold

Romney economics would spell disaster for America's middle class. In this economy there are shipbuilders and ship wreckers.

— Martin O'Malley

At Cambridge, there was a completely unintimidating culture, and there were no class divisions among the students.

— Elizabeth Blackburn

I grew up watching my mom in the kitchen, that's how I know anything about cooking. I've always wanted to go to…

— Serena Williams

Urban development initiatives must match the aspirations of the middle class and the neo middle class.

— Narendra Modi

Damn! This flight attendant treating us like we won these first class tickets in a contest.

— J. B. Smoove

The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of…

— Voltaire

To this day, on my cheat days from my diet, which are New Year's Eve and my birthday, I buy luxury foods…

— Sandra Cisneros

Holly is the fourth-prettiest girl in the class, but the top 3 all have boyfriends. So a lot of guys like me…

— Jeff Kinney

I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.

— Alex Ferguson

The race struggle is the primal one, and the class struggle secondary. The last dominating race is the German.

— Moses Hess

Class isn't something you buy. Look at you. You have a $500 suit on and you're still a lowlife.

— Roger Spottiswoode