Middle class Quotes · Page 11

I grew up in a poor family. I had to cut everyone's hair, because we didn't have money for entertainment.

— Anthony Jeselnik

I feel that the single-minded pursuit of wealth has led the middle classes into a crisis,

— Rana Dasgupta

To middle-class parents, the project team may have seemed unfit for children, but it was exactly what I needed.

— Willie Stargell

I come from a middle-class background and there was none to lead me through to movies.

— Anupama Parameswaran

What's universal in America about teenagehood is a middle-class white boy with average dreams.

— Celine Sciamma

I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty.

— Viktor Yanukovych

If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery.

— Simon Hoggart

Donald Trump would end up raising taxes on middle-class families.

— Hillary Clinton

Most of my films are set in an upper-middle-class world of well-off people who may have all kinds of emotional problems, but…

— James Ivory

I'm incredibly boring; I had a very happy childhood. I never starved, nor did I have a silver spoon in my mouth.…

— Jude Law

People think I am arrogant, I don't think so. I cannot be arrogant at all... I am basically a lower middle class…

— Sajid Khan

I certainly would like to prevent, if I could legally, anybody having an abortion, a rich woman, a middle-class woman, or a…

— Henry Hyde

When you go to work, if your name is on the building, you're rich. If your name is on your desk, you're…

— Rich Hall

I was married very young. I lived a very middle class life. I was married at age 21, divorced at 31. I…

— John Lithgow

I guess I'm also obligated to note that the experience of sex workers who are not upper/middle class/white probably have much worse…

— Marie Calloway

I will be the greatest jobs president that God has ever created. The tax relief will be concentrated on the working and…

— Donald Trump

The Black public sector middle class teachers, policeman, firemen, and post office workers, those jobs have been on the decline but there…

— Jesse Jackson

There are certain people in whom you can detect the seeds of madness - seeds that have remained dormant only because the…

— Zoë Heller

Daily life is a comprimised blend of posturing for the sake of role-playing and of varying degrees of self-revelation. Under stressful conditions…

— E. O. Wilson

You know, it can get to a place where when a person hears about hockey, it's not just like, 'Oh, that's the…

— Auston Matthews

“No, this, she felt, was real life and if she wasn’t as curious or passionate as she had once been, that was…

— David Nicholls

I think the Clintons are going to make their decision based on the merits. And their focus, like mine, is on middle…

— Chris Matthews

In the absence of sound oversight,responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions…

— Barack Obama

“Moreover, it is important to recognize that notions of self-fashioning were circulating in Renaissance Europe not only among members of the rising…

— Helena Goscilo

People who want to act rich when they're upper-middle class. They try too hard.

— John Waters

I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.

— Orson Welles

“the hard-working, honest rich are the primary providers of jobs that allow us to have a middle class in this country.”

— Ben Carson

Childcare has been so expensive for so many folks, especially middle-class or lower-income people.

— Jasmine Crockett

Why is this government so insensitive to the concerns of the middle-class people?

— Gilles Duceppe

I come from a poor background, I've seen struggle. Money will come and go, but I will continue to be grounded.

— Dutee Chand

Struggling to stay in the middle class, and I love that. That's me and my dad and my family.

— Tavis Smiley

We needed the support of our parents because we had no car, no money.

— Bill Kaulitz

I grew up in a very white middle-class area, and obviously I'm not that.

— Griff

Certain kinds of clichés are the narcotics of the middle class.

— John Clellon Holmes

Average, middle-class people, the people of Macomb County, couldn't afford health care. Now they can [with Obamacare].

— Rachel Martin

But I don't think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.

— Anonymous

I grew up in a middle-class family in the middle of America in the middle of the last century.

— Hillary Clinton

“Mr Davis was a middle class tremble of a man worried about an unseemly display and his Jerry Springer moment”

— Saira Viola

I think you will find me to be a typical middle-class American.

— Gina Haspel

I'm a white, middle-class male who had a happy childhood in Ohio. The world does not need me to be a novelist.

— David Quammen