Middle class Quotes · Page 8

We were so poor. Every item of clothing came from a thrift store.

— Gina Schock

I like to be in that space, the same middle-class man. Otherwise, you become completely detached from reality.

— Thiagarajan Kumararaja

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

We didn't have much money and my mom scrounged up $15 and bought us a surf board at a yard sale.

— Garrett McNamara

Like most lazy upper-middle-class kids, American Studies seemed like a fun way to use your knowledge of TV to get an A.

— Nick Kroll

Neither of my parents live in Oakland anymore. They both got priced out.

— Daveed Diggs

I belong to a middle class family from Bhopal. My father was fearless.

— Jaya Bachchan

Right now, America's middle class is struggling to meet their basic needs.

— Ruben Hinojosa

When I was a kid, and Elvis Presley broke through to a middle class, white audience, it was a sociological phenomenon that…

— Lindsey Buckingham

We had to make ends meet. My parents were divorced, so my father wasn't really in my life. We grew up like…

— Jeffrey Donovan

That's the underlying tactic of the Obama administration in 2012: push the war on women, the war on the middle class, the…

— Mike Gallagher

There's a very big gulf between the black civil rights leadership in America and the black middle class in America. The black…

— Pete du Pont

I'm working class, my family was working class, and we have struggled the same way our neighbors here in San Francisco have…

— Cindy Sheehan

Growing up, I wouldn't say I was poor. But my parents, although we lived in a nice, middle-class home, they had their…

— Jay IDK

“One of the reasons the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and the middle class struggles in debt is that the…

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

“We had, you could say, everything but money -- Grandmam and I did, anyhow. We had each other and our work, and…

— Wendell Berry

“...I had a momentary vision of Brooklands' entire middle class, its prosperous lawyers, doctors and senior managers, being confined to their own…

— J.G. Ballard

“Conservative dog whistling made minorities, not concentrated wealth, the pressing enemy of the white middle class. It didn’t seem to matter that…

— Ian Haney López

If middle-class Americans do not feel threatened by the slow encroachment of the police state or the Patriot Act, it is because…

— Joe Bageant

The Porsche was just a vehicle to get to another place. I used it to change people's perceptions of me. I had…

— Brian Grazer

“THERE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN ITINERANTS, drifters, hobos, restless souls. But now, in the second millennium, a new kind of wandering tribe is…

— Jessica Bruder

I may, and I think I represent a tradition that means a lot to me, which has really always been about fighting…

— Caroline Kennedy

“This advice comes as a surprise: job searching is not joblessness; it is a job in itself and should be structured to…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the…

— Daniel Day-Lewis

China, with its large emerging middle class, is among the big beneficiaries of globalization.

— Joseph Stiglitz

I always loved performing, but my parents were very practical, middle-class Jewish people.

— Alex Borstein

The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.

— Sinclair Lewis

“As a middle class Indian you have always been taught to buy peace. Like a commodity.”

— Andy Paula

“Middle-class prosperity is lapidary; the flow of cash rounds and smooths a person like water does riverbed stones.”

— Neal Stephenson

I want people to know that movie stars live a normal, middle-class life.

— Shahrukh Khan

The middle class should not continue to foot the bill for tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires.

— Keith Ellison

I grew up in a middle-class house without books, without art. No one around me wrote poetry or even read it.

— Edward Hirsch

I will not stand for any tax increase for middle class or working Americans. There is no way I will support that.

— Raja Krishnamoorthi

The family of my mother had a lot of money; the family of my father, nothing.

— Charo

I don't come from a well-off family. We're very middle-class, lower-middle-class, so that's something I cherish.

— Karen Fukuhara

Millions of people are falling out of the middle class into the ranks of the poor.

— Simon Mainwaring

I grew up lower-middle class outside of Austin, I'm a white guy, and I write movies.

— Riley Stearns

They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.

— H. Rap Brown

Self-discipline is the No. 1 delineating factor between the rich, the middle class and the poor.

— Robert Kiyosaki

Growing up, we weren't poor, but we didn't have money to spare.

— Rachel Reeves