England is strictly class-based. What's surprising is how many films are still made with a load of people in silly frocks running… — Stephen Daldry Copy Share Image
My mom was a pretty hard worker. She worked her ass off, but I'd say we were middle class. I had a… — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
“Elm Street was the dividing line between the two worlds. On either side of this line there were families who had trouble… — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
We had a very normal, sort of ghetto, urban upbringing. My father was a bus driver and my mother was a seamstress… — Wood Harris Copy Share Image
Washington is broken. Bailing out Wall Street with no strings attached while leaving middle class Arkansas taxpayers with the bill. Protecting insurance… — Bill Halter Copy Share Image
“The president stopped and turned. "You are a soldier of fortune." Gentry pushed him forward. "After expenses, I'm really more like a… — Mark Greaney Copy Share Image
Until the Second World War, it was unthinkable for a married woman of the working or middle class to disgrace her husband… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
The world is polarized. The middle class becomes smaller. The polarization makes the difference between rich and the poor big. This is… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court consistently favors organized money and the political privileges of the corporate class. We have a Senate that is more… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
I get upset when so many people say there are all sorts of problems in Africa and India where they have these… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
“For Kerouac, the embodiment of American Zen was Gary Snyder, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Buddhist poet and essayist, who he fictionalized as Japhy… — Joel Dinerstein Copy Share Image
I joined the WGA when I got a writing job at 'Saturday Night Live.' That job was the first time I ever… — Julio Torres Copy Share Image
It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
When the newly formed middle class in China begins to perceive its interests and discovers the value of the rule of law,… — Heinrich August Winkler Copy Share Image
My generation's parents told their children, 'Become an accountant, a lawyer, or an engineer; that will give you a solid foothold in… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Excellent Sheep is likely to makea lasting mark for three reasons. One, Mr. Deresiewicz spent twenty-four years in the Ivy League, graduating… — Dwight Garner Copy Share Image
In our English popular religion the common conception of a future state of bliss is that of ... a kind of perfected… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education. — Lorraine Toussaint Copy Share Image
I think I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
Why certain political classes want purposefully to keep Americans in a state of perpetual debt and uncertainty and why certain people don't… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Historically, it has required a combination of favorable employment trends and active government intervention to lower the percentage of people in poverty… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
The genius of the Republicans has been how they figured out how to so polarize the middle class that we vote against… — Patricia Schroeder Copy Share Image
Middle class was defined by having certain values and only a certain amount of money. But this new middle class seems to… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Fame has not changed me as a person, but life on the whole has changed a lot. I belong to a middle… — Bhuvan Bam Copy Share Image
“Coming from a struggling middle class family, I have come here to the stage where the esteemed people all over the world… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
The death of distance. There is hardly any middle class family in India who doesn't have a son, a daughter, a son-in-law,… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
The auto industry is standing today. The middle class is standing today. Ohio is standing today. America is standing strong today. — Ted Strickland Copy Share Image
In this case it appealed to me partly because it felt close to me in some ways. This is about a confused,… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
There are places in America that have not just protected middle-class neighborhoods but reduced homelessness. Even places like Houston have been able… — Cleve Jones Copy Share Image
What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking… — Charlie Sheen Copy Share Image
Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black… — Kathleen Blanco Copy Share Image
I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
My family was very, very poor. We grew up in an environment that was so nurturing and so caring. Everything around us… — Akiane Kramarik Copy Share Image
Indeed, there are so many prejudices against everyday middle-class values on college campuses, and serving in the military and being pro-American just… — Jack Kingston Copy Share Image
I'm a good little middle-class boy. I live in Gloucestershire or Kensington. I don't exist in the war zone, but it's certainly… — Nick Love Copy Share Image
Offshoring manufacturing jobs left Americans with fewer high-value-added, well-paid jobs, and the U.S. middle class downsized. Ladders of upward mobility were taken… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
So you've got these regular, middle-class voters who don't hate the government as much as the Kochs do. They're Republicans, but they… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
A recession is predominantly for the middle class. Where I come from, the majority of people have always lived in a recession. — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
If you leave out the magnetic stardom of sportsmen and actors, middle-class India today really has just two heroes - the army… — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to… — Patrick J. Kennedy Copy Share Image
