Middle class Quotes · Page 9

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

I grew up in Rayagada in Odisha, in a middle-class family. But I always had the entrepreneurial bug.

— Ritesh Agarwal

I decided to run for Congress to get and keep people in the middle class.

— Raja Krishnamoorthi

My father came from old money. There was less of an expectation for the children to earn a living.

— Kevin Kwan

“So, as middle-class families have been tumbling downhill, working-class families have been tumbling into poverty. And”

— Amy Goldstein

It's important to expand households' financial asset income to create a broad middle class.

— Fumio Kishida

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

— Wendell Berry

Museums and galleries do recruit art historians, but they are overwhelmingly white and middle class, or else from abroad. They understandably fret…

— Munira Mirza

I have a lot of sympathy with the ideas and frustration of the Occupy movement. I absolutely agree with the sense that…

— Susan Bysiewicz

This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor…

— Susan George

I know why we're strong. I know why we have held together; I know why we are united: it's because there's always…

— Joe Biden

Our town was not very wealthy, it is a humble place, and my mom and dad didn't have much money. They were…

— Alex Pereira

People with a culture of poverty suffer much less from repression than we of the middle class suffer and indeed, if I…

— Brian Friel

My father was also interested in stocks. When I was a young child, he and his friends would drink in the evening…

— Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

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

“Understanding Metro's history may illuminate today's debates. To conservatives who decry Metro's expense--around $10 billion in nominal dollars--this book serves as a…

— Zachary M. Schrag

“The German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, who had syphilis, said that only a person of deep faith could afford the luxury of…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The image the Republicans have of themselves needs the image they have of the Democrats to bring it into sharp focus. The…

— Clinton Rossiter

“There must always be a fringe of the experimental in literature--poems bizarre in form and curious in content, stories that overreach for…

— Henry Seidel Canby

In five days, you can turn the page on policies that put greed and irresponsibility on Wall Street before the hard work…

— Barack Obama

“The problem was not that Americans spent beyond their means but that their means had not kept up with what the larger…

— Robert B. Reich

Our job as Americans is to restore that basic bargain that says, if you work hard, if you're willing to meet your…

— Barack Obama

I was born in the middle of the century in the middle of the country, a classic Baby Boomer.

— Mitt Romney

“The rise of the global middle class will pave the way for a new golden age in Australian society.”

— Asher Judah

I came from an upper-middle class home, which is always a hard cross for a country singer to bear.

— Kinky Friedman

When it comes to taking responsibility towards the society, the middle class will be the first people to shirk it.

— Anonymous

“My mom often said "We're not poor, we just don't have much money.”

— Les Cochran

America's middle class is getting hammered, and Washington is rigged to work for the big guy.

— Elizabeth Warren

I have a different perspective on public services to most middle-class professionals on the left.

— Wes Streeting

I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.

— Chris Martin

I am a low-key girl from a middle-class family of a small village.

— Hima Das

Coming from a middle-class family in Hyderabad, I was an introvert. I chose to be the way I am.

— Tabu

“I grew up in the valley of that mountain, just poor enough that I could imagine a way out.”

— Kevin Wilson

We have a plan for a stronger middle class, with the goal of generating 12 million new jobs over the next four years.

— Paul Ryan

An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.

— Benjamin Disraeli

When you cut investments in worker training, you're cutting investments in the middle class.

— Tom Perez

When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'.

— George Foreman

I come from a middle class family, and my parents weren't too supportive of my career choices.

— Kangna Ranaut