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 Copy Share Image
Neither of my parents live in Oakland anymore. They both got priced out. — Daveed Diggs Copy Share Image
It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
I like to be in that space, the same middle-class man. Otherwise, you become completely detached from reality. — Thiagarajan Kumararaja Copy Share Image
Our family didn't have a lot of money, so my brother, parents and I spent our holidays at Southend-on-Sea. — Vera Lynn Copy Share Image
The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor. — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight. — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
Middle-class parents are paying more and people from lower incomes have slightly higher debts than they did 15 years ago, ... That's about it. — Usher Copy Share Image
We've always been in favor of improved wages for workers. When you have a strong middle class, they want to buy more… — James Sinegal Copy Share Image
I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
America's real business leaders understand unless or until the middle class regains its footing and its faith, capitalism remains vulnerable. — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
Growing up in a very middle-class, tiny, white village, where there's not much to do - and also when you grow up… — Griff Copy Share Image
I was a working-class kid in a middle-class environment. Fashion was my way of saying, 'You can tap me for this and… — Ncuti Gatwa Copy Share Image
Man, if it weren't for Bill's Records and Tapes I would've been an accountant like my dad. I love my dad, but… — Ryan Miller Copy Share Image
Historians differ on when the consumer culture came to dominate American culture. Some say it was in the twenties, when advertising became… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
There's no question that the black middle class has benefited greatly by the civil rights movement. But there is a large black… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
“I strongly believe that the best economic policy for any administration is the one that seeks to produce more entrepreneurs, not just… — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
“But these gains in freedom for both men and women often seem like a triumph of subtraction rather than addition. Over time,… — Jennifer Senior Copy Share Image
“I know that I am going away on my own account. I must make the usual effort. I must have something to… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Poetry died as a commercial form and then it died as a serious art form. No one serious touches it. It used… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
The conversation should've been about middle class people. The conversation should've been about how to raise the minimum wage and strengthen Social… — Keith Ellison Copy Share Image
“But by the late twentieth century, with more Americans going to college, making more money, and, thanks to more affordable airfares, traveling… — Kay S. Hymowitz Copy Share Image
