Middle class Quotes · Page 7

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

— Asher Judah

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

— Fumio Kishida

I grew up with a family that had very little and were at times homeless.

— Misha Collins

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

— Kevin Kwan

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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

— Amy Goldstein

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

Setting aside labels, I am somebody who believes that government in a democratic society should be representing the needs of the vast…

— Bernie Sanders

I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my…

— Kid Rock

To most middle-class feminists, as to most middle-class non-feminists, working-class women remain mysterious creatures to be “reached out to” in some abstract…

— Irena Klepfisz

Though we are perpetually bragging of it [the middle class] as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the…

— Charles Dickens

The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care…

— Tim McGraw

in our culture, the professional, and largely white, middle class is taken as a social norm - a bland and neutral mainstream…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

War is rich old men protecting their property by sending middle class and lower class young men off to die. It always…

— George Carlin

“The people I hung out with in my early twenties were middle-class and, at least to our minds, artistic. We’d all turned…

— David Sedaris

“Literature...describes a descent. First, gods. Then demigods. Then epic became tragedy: failed kings, failed heroes. Then the gentry. Then the middle class…

— Martin Amis

When you're a kid, you always feel you have this weird kindred-spirit thing with other Jews, until you get older and you…

— Marc Maron

Let's talk about taxes, because I think it's instructive. Now, four years ago, when I stood on this stage, I said that…

— Barack Obama

I had no one to help me, but the T. S. Eliot helped me. So when people say that poetry is a…

— Jeanette Winterson

“the rich and powerful are always taken care of. This corruption is turning government into a tool of those who have already…

— Elizabeth Warren

“During the 18th century, pictures depicting the sex act were distributed more widely in Japan than in any other part of the…

— Bradley Smith

Well, the world is vastly counted in favour of men at every level - except if you live in a civilised country…

— Steven Moffat

In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I a pliant…

— Bharati Mukherjee

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

— Rachel Reeves

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

— Robert Kiyosaki

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

— H. Rap Brown

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

— Riley Stearns

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

— Simon Mainwaring

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

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 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

We will squarely deal with wealth distribution towards the middle class.

— Fumio Kishida

I come from a humble background, where my family was struggling to be called middle class.

— Badshah

Me and Iggor come from poor upbringings. We're broke, never had any money.

— Max Cavalera

There's no such thing as the middle class. It's absolutely vanishing.

— Marc Andreessen

My parents didn't have much money growing up, but they always had a budget for books.

— Tim Ferriss