I'm one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he's… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We think. We are not peasants. We are mechanics. But even the peasants know better than to believe in a war. Everybody… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place… — Imtiaz Ali Copy Share Image
Uncertainty and fears of social decline and exclusion have reached the middle class in many societies. — Jose Angel Gurria Copy Share Image
It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
I studied classical music for a year. Then, I studied jazz for a year at the New School, and then I got… — Andrew Wyatt Copy Share Image
“Setting a goal is like to set your destination point in your life GPS which could take you to your desire position… — Rashedur Ryan Rahman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
For 25 years, it has been my privilege to represent the city of San Francisco and the great state of California; to… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
I was terribly shy and never said anything in class. Then I started getting into school plays. When you've got words to… — Nigel Rees Copy Share Image
We [the Republicans] help the middle class when we unburden them from the very policies that Hillary Clinton would double down on.… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a great technician.… — Jacques Pepin Copy Share Image
The comedy of class, played so straight, is a wonderful thing for an actor to sink their teeth into. — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
As I holed up in the City of Angels, I was also aware of a comforting feeling of anonymity. In the world's… — John D. MacDonald Copy Share Image
The public is not only shifting from left to right. Every single idea associated with the educated class has grown more unpopular… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I don't have a set routine, but I try to squeeze in a workout every day, whether it's taking a hike, taking… — Jacob Vargas Copy Share Image
I remember there were days when - and this is kind of gross - I would sleep in my uniform to save… — Stacey Farber Copy Share Image
[Science fiction is] that class of prose narrative treating of a situation that could not arise in the world we know, but… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
When in company with literary women, make no allusions to 'learned ladies,' or 'blue stockings,' or express surprise that they should have… — Eliza Leslie Copy Share Image
The first joke I got on the air I remember clearly. Dennis McNicholas and Robert Carlock wrote a sketch where they were… — Michael Schur Copy Share Image
I know what it feels like to be in that middle and lower-middle class, and feel like the culture is passing you… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Turgenev saw human beings as individuals always endowed with consciousness, character, feelings, and moral strengths and weaknesses; Marx saw them always as… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
Urban development initiatives must match the aspirations of the middle class and the neo middle class. — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
You could probably ask any YouTuber in the U.K. if they'd class themselves as a celebrity, and I guarantee they'd all say… — Joe Sugg Copy Share Image
Next to doing a good job yourself, the greatest joy is having someone else do a first class job under your direction. — William Feather Copy Share Image
There's so much I'm interested in that I didn't discover in high school. For 'The Amazing Spider-Man', because Gwen is a scientist,… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
She told her therapist it reminded her of coming home the summer after her freshman year at Rutgers, stepping back into the… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
It is our generation's task...to reignite the true engine of America's economic growth...a rising, thriving middle class. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Yeah, there are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't seem… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been… — Bill Pascrell Copy Share Image
If you want a future of shared prosperity, where the middle class is growing and poverty is declining, where the American Dream… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To the Calvinists, more than to any other class of men, the political liberties of Holland, England, and America are due. — John Lothrop Motley Copy Share Image
Last evening attended Croghan Lodge International Order of Odd Fellows. Election of officers. Chosen Noble Grand. These social organizations have a number… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, these three, are in a class by themselves among the great mathematicians, and it is not for ordinary… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
The better class of Briton likes to send his children away to school until they're old and intelligent enough to come home… — Malcolm Bradbury Copy Share Image
The university and in a general way, all teaching systems, which appear simply to disseminate knowledge, are made to maintain a certain… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
An up-close portrait of middle-class Nigeria exploring the boundaries of morals and public decorum. Pitched between humor and despair, with stripped-down, evocative… — Nii Parkes Copy Share Image
I didn't have any qualms. I'm used to taking my clothes off in front of strangers. I've done it since I was… — Alex Kingston Copy Share Image